A Conference at the Folger Institute
4 and 5 March 2011
Organized by Karen Newman and Jane Tylus, with Kathleen Lynch,
With funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Friday, 4 March 2011
9:00-10:00 a.m. Plenary
Welcome: Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director, Folger Institute
Chair: Karen Newman, Owen Walker Professor of Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University
"Translating the Renaissance"
Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-12:00 p.m. Early Modern Translation History and Theory
Chair: Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, and Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, New York University
“‘Puta vieja, old whore’: Matter in Translation”
Jacques Lezra, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University
“Translating Scottish Stadial History: William Robertson in Late Eighteenth Century Germany”
László Kontler, Professor of History, Central European University, Budapest
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch provided in Great Hall
1:30-3:30 p.m. Cultural Translation / Knowledge Exchange
Chair: Carmen Nocentelli, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of New Mexico
“Robert Dowland’s Musicall Banquet (1610) and ‘Stranger’ Cultures in Early Stuart England”
Michael Wyatt, Associate Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University
“Theatrical Mobility”
Anston Bosman, Associate Professor of English, Amherst College
“Full. Empty. Stop. Go.: Translating Miscellany in Early Modern China”
Carla Nappi, Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia
3:30-4:00 p.m. Break
4:00-5:00 p.m. Case Study: Ovid
Chair: Stephen Orgel, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Department of English, Stanford University
“Translating the Rest of Ovid”
Gordon Braden, Linden Kent Memorial Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia
“A Double Stranger to England: George Sandys’ Ovid, 1625-1642”
Heather James, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
8:00 p.m. Folger Production of A Comedy of Errors (group rate; optional)
Saturday, 5 March 2011
9:00-10:00 a.m. Plenary
Chair: David Schalkwyk, Director of Research, Folger Shakespeare Library
“Translation, Hospitality, and Homeland Insecurity: Reflections on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew”
Margaret Ferguson, Professor of English, University of California at Davis
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-12:00 p.m. Panel: Gender and Translation
Chair: Neil Rhodes, Professor, School of English, University of St. Andrews
“Taking Out the Women: Louise Labé’s Folie in Robert Greene’s translation”
Ann Rosalind Jones, Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor of Comparative Literature, Smith College
"Katherine Philips: Pompey (1663) or the Importance of Being a Translator"
Line Cottegnies, Professor, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel: Translating Sacred Texts
Chair: Katharina Piechoki, Dr.Phil, Romance Studies, New York University
“Biblical Translation in Tudor and Stuart England: Texts and Contexts”
Naomi Tadmor, Professor of History, Lancaster University
“Qur’an Study and Qur’an Translation in 16th-Century Europe”
Thomas E. Burman, Professor and Head, Department of History,
University of Tennessee
3:00-3:30 p.m. Break
3:30-4:30 p.m. Case Study: Cervantes
Chair: Edmund Valentine Campos, Boston, MA
“Spanish Plots on the English Stage”
Barbara Fuchs, Professor of English and of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
“Translating Cervantes”
Edith Grossman, Literary Translator, New York, NY
4:30-5:30 p.m. Roundtable: Translation: Changing Field / Changing Pedagogies
Chair: Jane Tylus
Panelists: Andrew Hadfield (Professor, School of English, University of Sussex) and A.E.B. Coldiron (Professor of English; Affiliated Faculty of French; History of Text Technologies Program, Florida State University), with Peter Burke and Margaret Ferguson
5:30-7:00 p.m. Closing Reception
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