Graduate Translation Conference next year

This is following up on the one started at UCLA and continued at Iowa by Becka.

CALL FOR LITERARY TRANSLATORS
The Politics and Practice of Translation:
2008 Graduate Student Translation Conference, Columbia University
March 29–March 31, 2008 Keynote Speaker: Charles Simic

The newly formed Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University is seeking graduate student translators from all over the country to participate in the third biannual Graduate Student Translation Conference in New York City, March 29-31, 2008. The Center hopes to gather a varied group of emerging and established translators for a weekend of workshops and round tables on the current politics and practice of literary translation in the United States.

The weekend will consist of Workshops, Round Tables, and a Saturday dinner at which Charles Simic will give the keynote speech. We encourage graduate students to apply for a place in one of the literary translation Workshops and/or to be one of the Round Table participants. Application details are below.

Application materials must be received by September 31, 2007.

1. Literary Translation Workshops:

If you are a graduate student working on literary translations (from any language) and would like to be considered for a Workshop, please send an email to info@centerforliterarytranslation.org with Conference Workshop Application as the subject line. Please attach a sample of your work (5-10 pages of poetry or prose), the original text, and a brief (up to 1 page) statement on your motivations for translating this particular work and the challenges you encountered in effectively rendering it into English. Please also include a CV.

Each Workshop will have roughly nine translators; each person will have one submission workshopped and will be expected to provide comments on the submissions of other participants.

2. Round Tables

The Center also seeks applications from graduate students interested in participating in one or more of the following Round Tables:
1. Translation and Theory
2. Translation and Canon Formation
3. Multilingualism and Translation
4. Translation: Ethics, Censorship, Speaking Out
Each Round Table will have 3-4 participants; each person will give 5-7 minutes of opening remarks leading into a discussion involving the audience and the participants.
Interested graduate student participants should send an e-mail, with the Round Table title as the subject line, to info@centerforliterarytranslation.org. Include in the e-mail a brief (up to 1 page) explanation of why you want to be on the panel and what angle you plan to take on the issue. Please also attach a CV.
For more information on the conference or the center, please visit http://www.centerforliterarytranslation.org. Please direct questions to info@centerforliterarytranslation.org.

Please note: a limited amount of financial assistance for travel may be available in certain circumstances; contact the organizers if you would not be able to attend without some support. Every effort will be made to provide accommodations for successful applicants from outside the New York area; however, we can’t guarantee accommodation.