Translation plays a major role in Belgian culture, both domestically – by enabling readers to access work produced in a different language community – and internationally, by disseminating work to wider audiences. Accordingly, BeLgoLab 2017 is devoted to translations of different kinds. It combines formal papers and discussions with practical workshops, where published English translations are compared with the originals (guidance materials supplied for non-specialists). The event is aimed at researchers and postgraduates in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, as well as those in French and Dutch studies.
Monday 6 March 2017
Eliot Room, British Library Knowledge Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Bookings for this session via dutch-enquiries@bl.uk
1330 – 1400 Registration
1400 – 1410 Welcome Adrian Armstrong (Queen Mary University of London), Marja Kingma (British Library)
1410 – 1525 Workshop on translation: Amélie Nothomb, ‘Fear and Trembling’ (‘Stupeur et tremblements’) Adrian Armstrong
Materials (from the published translation and the original) will be distributed on the day
1525 – 1545 Tea/coffee
1545 – 1700 Workshop on translation: Paul van Ostaijen, ‘Occupied City’ (‘Bezette Stad’) Jane Fenoulhet (University College London)
Materials (from the published translation and the original) will be distributed on the day
1700 – 1800 Reception, kindly supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in London.
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Institute for Modern Languages Research (SAS, UoL) Senate House G35
Bookings for this session via www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/7189
0900 – 0915 Welcome Adrian Armstrong, Marja Kingma
0915 – 0945 Translator’s choices in the literary field: Alex Brotherton’s translation of Gerard Walschap’s ‘Marriage/Ordeal’ (‘Trouwen’, ‘Celibaat’), Irving Wolters (University College London)
0945 – 1015 From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Cultural Translation in Contemporary Belgian Ethnic-Minority Writing in French, Sarah Arens (University of Edinburgh)
1015 – 1030 Discussion
1030 – 1045 Tea/coffee
1045 – 1145 Round table: Translation and Belgium Adrian Armstrong, Marja Kingma
In partnership with the Institute for Modern Language Research (IMLR), School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
For more information see this post on the British Library European Studies blog.