8th Annual St. Jerome’s Day: A Celebration of Translation

Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
September 30, 2010

Senate Chamber (Room 326), Arts and Convocation Hall
University of Alberta

Keynote Speaker:
David Homel, Author and Translator (Montreal)

Authors‒Translators‒Authors  and Creativity

8:30-8:45                          Coffee and Goodies
                                                (Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor, Arts and Convocation Hall)

8:45-9:00                          Greetings
                                                Anne Malena
                                                André Plourde, Faculty of Arts, Associate Dean (Research)

9:00-11:00                        Panel I  Chair: Nadezda Korchagina

Tom Priestly (University of Alberta)
No, Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington, they are not from Portugal or Spain: Comments on two English versions of a Slovenianpoem

Harriet K. Namukwaya
Beyond translating French into English: Experiences of a non-native translator

Rosalind Kerr (University of Alberta)
Fake (Lesbian) Husbands and Failed Translations

Roman Ivashkiv (University of Alberta)
Localization in Viktor Pelevin’s Generation «II» and its English Translation Homo Zapiens

 

11:00-11:15                        Break (Faculty Lounge)

 

11:15-12:45                        Panel II Chair: Elena Siemens

Karen Simons (Edmonton)
Experience into Verse: The Voices of the Agamemnon, My Mother, and Me

Lynn Penrod (University of Alberta)
Josephine Balmer: Author—Translator—Author

Stefano Muneroni (University of Alberta)
Translating for the Stage: The Challenges of Theatre Translators and Dramaturgs

12:45-2:00                        Lunch and Raffle Draw (Faculty Lounge)

 

2:00-3:00                          Keynote Address by David Homel

                                                Chair: Marie Carrière

I CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT: What Translation Teaches About Writing and Vice Versa

 

3:00-3:15                           Break (Faculty Lounge)

3:15-4:45                            Found in Translation (a creative panel)

All participants are from Edmonton
Chair: Patrick Pilarski

• Alice Major and Yukari Meldrum
• Naomi McIlwraith
• Hélène Garrett
• Pierrette Requier
• Jocelyne Verret
• Jalal Barzanji and Peter Midgley

 

4:45-6:00                          Reception (Faculty Lounge)

The organizing committee wishes to thank our sponsors for 2010 events:

The Muttart Foundation

The Faculty of Arts

The Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta

The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de literature canadienne

The Dimič Institute for Comparative and Cross-Cultural Studies;

Edmonton Japanese English Consulting (Website)

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies

MLCS Graduate Student Council

 

The organizing committee wishes to express our thanks to the Book Raffle donors including the following:

ATIA/TransLit

University of Ottawa Press

Individual book donors