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CALL FOR PAPERS
“TRANSLATING THE MIDDLE AGES”
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFRENCE
SPONSORED BY THE PROGRAM IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
AND CENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
OCTOBER 28 and 29, 2008
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: 15 APRIL 2008
We invite submissions for papers on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages, including textual and visual translation. Who translates what, how and why, and to what effect? Papers may address, for example, genre and translation (poetic translations, romance, hagiography, chronicle, scientific, or biblical texts—what gets translated), the cultural context of translation (patronage, circulation, gender, canon formation—who translates for whom), or the practice of translation in the Middle Ages (dictionaries, the transition from manuscript to print, the voice of the translator—how is translation performed in the Middle Ages). The scope is interpreted broadly to include Europe, Iceland, Byzantium and the Islamic Mediterranean. Featured speakers include Christopher Kleinhenz, Brian Merrilees, Rita Copeland, Jeanette Beer, Lars Boje Mortensen, Catherine Batt, and Aden Kumler.
An evening event will focus on translations of medieval texts and culture by two renowned contemporary authors who will read from and discuss their work: W. S. Merwin, poet and translator of Dante’s Purgatorio and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante’s Inferno.
Participants will submit completed papers by October 1 to be circulated to the other members of their panel. Selected papers will be published in a volume.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts (300 words): April 15. Notification of acceptance by May 15.
Send abstracts and inquiries to:
Karen Fresco
Director, Program in Medieval Studies
kfresco@uiuc.edu