Graduate Colloquium on Theatre Translation at Queen Mary
Call for papers: Graduate Colloquium on Theatre Translation at Queen Mary,
University of London; Department of Drama
GRADUATE CONFERENCE funded by the AHRC and the GRADUATE SCHOOL IN
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
***Theatre translation as collaboration: re-routing text through
performance***
Saturday 20 March 2010 at Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS
Keynote speakers: Professor J. Michael Walton and playwright Colin Teevan
Round table chaired by critic Aleks Sierz, featuring playwright Martin
Crimp and theatre practitioners tba
Afternoon workshop led by Graínne Byrne of Scarlet Theatre
Call for Papers
Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 18 December 2009
The aim of this one-day graduate colloquium is to explore the
collaborative creative processes involved in the re-routing of text from
page to stage: what happens when a text is translated for performance?
We wish to examine the act of theatre translation in all its multiple
variations, including versions, adaptations and inter-semiotic transfers
(for example from film or book to stage). How does research engage with
the collaborative nature of translating for performance? We hope to expand
and facilitate the dialogue between theatre practitioners and academics,
illuminating the practice/theory debate. To this end we particularly
welcome papers that of themselves contain a practical or performance
element or that examine how we construct performance and how a performance
text might be written and received.
All forms of theatre translation (inter- and intra-lingual and
inter-medial) will be considered. The main focus is to address and
investigate both overt and implicit collaboration in translating for
performance.
We invite abstracts for 20 minute presentations from all graduate students
currently working in Theatre (including dance and design), Translation,
Performance or Language Studies, or related areas.
Keywords: Theatre, text, translation, transcription, transliteration,
transfiguration, performance, reception, audience, collaboration,
adaptation, version, literal, literary, transculturation, neutrality,
identity, otherness, ownership, agency, copyright, theory, practice.
All enquiries and abstracts to translation-colloquium@qmul.ac.uk. Please
include with your abstract a brief biography (50 words).
Organising Committee
Geraldine Brodie g.brodie@qmul.ac.uk
Kate Eaton k.r.eaton@qmul.ac.uk
Margherita Laera m.laera@qmul.ac.uk
Tiffany Watt-Smith t.k.watt-smith@qmul.ac.uk
Tags: conference, Queen Mary, translation
