Monthly Archives: januari 2018

Masterclass : “Humor in vertaling”

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Op vrijdag 16 februari 2018 organiseert de vakgroep VTC van de UGent een masterclass “Humor in vertaling: theorie en praktijk”.

Wat:

Humor is vaak onvertaalbaar, zo horen we. Maar humor wordt wel voortdurend vertaald. Hierover houden vier sprekers elk een uiteenzetting met een interactieve component. Engels is de voertaal maar de masterclass is zo opgevat dat studenten ook oplossingen kunnen aanreiken vanuit hun eigen moedertaal.

De masterclass is een project in het kader van Internationalisation@home, een UGent-initiatief dat studenten laat kennismaken met de internationale academische wereld in hun vakgebied.

(https://www.ugent.be/lw/nl/student/internationalisering/internationalistionathome.htm)

Voor wie:

Iedereen is van harte welkom, in het bijzonder Master- en Bachelor3-studenten met een interesse voor vertaling en/of onderzoek naar humor.

Inschrijven is gratis maar wel verplicht. Dat kan heel snel via volgende link:

https://goo.gl/forms/JuCkh2cqcFv6VQBh1

Waar:

Room A108, UGent, Campus Mercator, Building A (Abdisstraat 1, 9000, Gent)

Programma :

09:45-10:00

Welcome and introduction (Jeroen Vandaele)

10:00-10:45

Carol O’Sullivan (University of Bristol)

“The Pragmatics of Literary Humour in Translation: Rhymes and Misunderstandings”

This session will deal with popular fiction and drama.

Languages: French, Italian, English, German.

11:00-11:45

Javier Muñoz-Basols (University of Oxford)

“Wordplay and Linguistic Creativity: Multimodality and Translation in Musical Comedy”

This session will analyse the dubbing and subtitling of My Fair Lady (1964). It will focus on the challenges of translating a multimodal work like a musical, along with its humorous elements.

Languages: English, Spanish. We will also draw on examples of dubbing and subtitling in many other languages.

12:00-13:00 Lunch break

13:00-13:45

Patrick Zabalbeascoa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

“The Complexities of Translating Irony in TV and Film Comedy”

This session will deal with ironic humour and the difficulties of its audiovisual translation.

Languages: English.

14:00-14:45

Jeroen Vandaele (UGent)

“Truly Untranslatable? Facing Comedic Complexity”

This session will deal with a film scene taken from The Naked Gun and an excerpt from Felipe Benítez Reyes’s half-comic novel Lo que viene después de lo peor (‘What comes after the worst’, ‘Wat na het ergste komt’). Knowledge of Spanish is not required.

Languages: Dutch, English, French, Spanish.

Gratis

Inschrijving :

Attendants are kindly asked to register via the following link on February 14 at the latest:

https://goo.gl/forms/JuCkh2cqcFv6VQBh1

Contact: Jeroen Vandaele jkm.vandaele@ugent.be

Conference: “Translation research – Translator training”

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24-26 May 2018 | PPCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Institute of English and American Studies
1 Mikszáth tér, Budapest 1088, Hungary

Second call for papers

PANELS | THEMES:
▪ Translation research – translation training
▪ Translating languages of limited diffusion: state of the art and perspectives
▪ Comparing experiences and systems: translator training at graduate and
postgraduate levels
▪ Intersemiotic translation

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Andrew Chesterman, University of Helsinki, Finland
Luc van Doorslaer, KU Leuven, CETRA, Belgium
Pál Heltai, ELTE, Kodolányi János University, Hungary
Don Kiraly,Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Please send us your abstract (250-300 words) and a short bio (200 words) to translationconference2018@btk.ppke.hu if you wish to participate in these panels, and indicate its form (oral presentation [20 minutes]; speed presentation [5 minutes]; poster).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2018
Registration will start on 1 February 2018
For further information, please e-mail us: translationconference2018@btk.ppke.hu
Website: btk.ppke.hu/trtt

The Life of Padma (Svayambhudeva) Edited and translated by Eva De Clercq (vol. 1)

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The Life of Padma, or the Paümacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha language of the famous Ramayana tale. The work was written by the poet and scholar Svayambhudeva, who lived in south India around the beginning of the tenth century. Like the epic tradition on which it is based, The Life of Padma narrates Prince Rama’s exile, his search for his wife Sita after her abduction by King Ravana of Lanka, and the restoration of his kingship.

This is the first direct translation into English of the oldest extant work in Apabhramsha, accompanied by a corrected reprint in the Devanagari script of Harivallabh C. Bhayani’s critical edition.

Eva de Clercq (the translator) is Professor of Indian Language and Culture at Ghent University.

More information: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674660366

Research Day: “Trauma y traducción en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea”

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The research day “Trauma y traducción en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea” will take place in Ghent on February 2, 2018, within the framework of the FWO-project (UGent-KUL): “Vidas en traducción. Las paradojas de la escritura autobiográfica multilingüe hispanoamericana”.

Location: Grote Vergaderzaal Engels (large meeting room, 130.017), Blandijnberg 2, Gent
Website: http://www.livesintranslation.ugent.be/trauma-y-traduccion/
Contact: Ilse.Logie@UGent.be

Studiedag: “Trauma y traducción en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea”

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Op vrijdag 2 februari vindt aan de UGent de studiedag “Trauma y traducción en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea” plaats in het kader van het FWO-project UGent-KUL “Vidas en traducción. Las paradojas de la escritura autobiográfica multilingüe hispanoamericana”. Mede-organisatoren zijn CLIV en CMSI (Cultural Memory Studies Initiative).

Location: Grote Vergaderzaal Engels (large meeting room, 130.017), Blandijnberg 2, Gent
Website: http://www.livesintranslation.ugent.be/trauma-y-traduccion/
Contact: Ilse.Logie@UGent.be