Thursday, 14 of September

Venue: Room 1.28, Arts One, Queen Mary

9.45-10.00

John London (Queen Mary, University of London): Welcome.

The Reception of Translations (Chair: Helena Buffery) 

11.00-11.15

Sharon Feldman (University of Richmond): ‘Àngel Guimerà in America’

Mark Johnston (DePaul University, Chicago): ‘The Reception of Ramon Llull among Anglophone Audiences in the Twentieth Century: Dislocation and Discontinuity’.

12.35-13.00

Richard Mansell (University of Exeter): ‘Catalan Literature in English: 1975–2016’

Jennifer Arnold (University of Birmingham): ‘A Broken Window: Reader Responses to Catalan Literature in Translation’ 

13.00-14.00

Light lunch (provided): outside Room 1.33, Arts One & in the Pati del Cavall Mort

Theoretical & Thematic Approaches (Chair: Xelo Sanmateu)

14.30-15.00

Pedro Ivorra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): ‘Study of Phraseological Units in La Plaça del Diamant and its translations into English’

Caterina Riba (Universitat de Vic): ‘Traducció i feminisme: La poesia catalana d’autoria femenina traduïda a l’anglès per Montserrat Abelló’

16.45-17.00

Dominic Keown (University of Cambridge): ‘Translation: An Academic Transfer There and Back?’

Helena Buffery (University College, Cork): ‘Cultural Trauma Narratives in/and Translation’

Rhiannon McGlade (University of Cambridge): ‘Tickling the Translator: Humour and Translation in Catalan Literature’.

Venue: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, ground floor)

17.30-18:30 Round Table: 

Publishers, Authors & Translators (Chair: Ronald Puppo)
 
With: Peter Bush, Clive Boutle, Mara Lethem, Laura McGloughlin, Teresa Solana, & Quercus Books, among others.
 
18.30 Drinks & book launches: 

Prudenci Bertrana, Josafat, translated by Peter Bush and Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo’s Bloody Roots

(venue: FADS Studio Theatre)
 
20.00 Performance: 
Spirals. Devised & Performed by PartSuspended www.partsuspended.com
Concept & Direction: Hari Marini

Poetry: Noèlia Díaz Vicedo (Bloody Roots. London: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2017)

Evening meal: your own arrangements.

Friday, 15 of September

The Experience of the Translator (Chair: Sharon Feldman)

10.30-11.00

Ronald Puppo (Universitat de Vic): ‘Great moments in contemporary Catalan-English translation’

John London (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘The Translation of Hidden Identities: Espriu and Calders’ 

11.15 - 11.45

Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Translating as a Feminist: Notes Towards a Bilingual Body’
 
11.45-12.15

Peter Bush (Oxford): ‘Catalan Ironies in a Serendipitous Translators’ Canon’
 
12.15-12.45

Mara Lethem (New York): ‘Experiences as a translator of contemporary Catalan prose’
 
12.45-13.00

Discussion and close.