{"id":291746,"date":"2012-09-24T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/09\/24\/alta-2012-preview-thursday-morning-october-4th\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:38","slug":"alta-2012-preview-thursday-morning-october-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/09\/24\/alta-2012-preview-thursday-morning-october-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"ALTA 2012 Preview: Thursday Morning, October 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s ALTA<\/span> kicks off officially on Wednesday night with the special opening event celebrating Open Letter’s poetry series—in particular Eduardo Chirinos’s Smoke of Distant Fires<\/em>, translated by Gary Racz, and Juan Gelman’s Dark Times Filled with Light<\/em>, translated by Hardie St. Martin—but the real meat of the conference gets going at 9:15 Thursday morning . . . Here are a few of the highlights from those first couple sessions (remember, you can download the entire schedule here<\/txp_file_download_link>):<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 4th<\/b>
\n9:15 – 10:45<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s No Pun Anymore: The Loss of Wit & Other Cultural Misunderstandings in Persian Verse Translation<\/b><\/p>\n

Despite a rich 2,000-year literary tradition, linguistic as well as cultural elements integral to Persian poetry continue to get slighted in English renderings. This panel surveys both the classical and modern tradition of Iranian verse, foregrounding key problems that considerably limit the appreciation of style and theme in translation.<\/p>\n

Roger Sedarat: Moderator
\nMojdeh Marashi: \u201cSaffron Paper: Rosewater Ink\u201d
\nKaveh Bassiri: \u201cThe Text Is in the Context\u201d
\nSara Khalili: \u201cOn Navigating Cultural Misunderstandings in Persian Literature\u201d<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Translating Murakami in Europe<\/b> <\/p>\n

This panel gathers three European translators of Haruki Murakami to discuss his translation into languages other than English. Focusing upon Murakami\u2019s latest novel, 1Q84<\/em>, panelists raise such problems as shifting tense, visual wordplay, and strategies for handling the English expressions and American references that appear natural in the English translation, but which stand out in other European languages, as they do in Japanese.<\/p>\n

Mette Holm: \u201cIn Search of Lost Time in Murakami: Movement Between Past and Present\u201d
\nIka Kaminka: \u201cStyle and the Translator: Re-Exporting English Idioms out of Japanese\u201d
\nAnna Zielinska-Elliott: \u201cVisual Presence and Subjective Absence: Conjuring Japanese in European Languages\u201d<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

11:00 – 12:15<\/b><\/p>\n

Linguistics & the Culture of Humor<\/b><\/p>\n

What makes an original text humorous and what should a translator understand about language, culture, and linguistics\u2014both in regard to the source and target languages\u2014to make this humor translatable? This panel also considers challenges translators may encounter.<\/p>\n

Kaija Straumanis: \u201cOn the German Translation of George Saunders\u2019s Pastoralia\u201d
\nKonstantin Gurevich,
\n& Helen Anderson: \u201cThe Elephant, the Hellephant, and the Quest for Dynamic Equivalence\u201d
\nMatt Rowe: \u201cTurning The Alienist<\/em> up to 11\u201d
\nEmily Davis: \u201cHypervelocity Cloudlets: Linguistic Precision and the Importance of
\nRegister in Dami\u00e1n Tabarovsky\u2019s Medical Autobiography<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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