Location: Penthouse, Thea Koerner House
6371 Crescent Road
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8:30 – 9:00am – Coffee and croissants
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9:00 – 9:30am – Welcome
Elisa Segnini (French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia);
Stephen Heatley (Head, Theatre and Film, University of British Columbia);
Ralph Sarkonak (Acting Head, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia);
Massimiliano Iacchini (Consul General of Italy in Vancouver)
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9:30 – 11:00 am – Translation and Creativity: Rendering the “local” and the multilingual
Moderator: Maria Benimeo (University of British Columbia)
Michael Subialka (University of Oxford) and Miriam Alosio (University of Chicago): “Translating Luigi Malerba: Roman-ness and the International Market”
Marina Bettaglio (University of Victoria): “Translation, Intertextuality, and Creation: Natalia Ginzburg and Carmen Martín Gaite”
Francesca Benocci (University of Wellington): “Women Poets from Aotearoa: from New Zealand English into Italian”
Anna Gadd (The University of Western Australia): “Rendering the local, the multicultural and the multilingual in Mr Scobie’s Riddle: a foreignising translation into Italian”
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11:00 – 11:30 am – Coffee break
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11:30 am – 12:45 pm – Translation, Migration and Exile
Moderator: Monica Liscio (University of British Columbia)
Valentina Fulginiti (Cornell University): “Translating from Exile: Laura Pariani’s Trans-National Narrative”
Gabriela Rodas (York University): “Symbolic Ethnicity in Italian-Canadians: a Cross-Cultural Translation Process”
Arianna Dagnino (University of British Columbia): “Deprovincializing Alessandro Spina: A transcultural reading of The young Maronite in English translation”…
12:45 – 2:00 pm – Lunch for all participants
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2:00 – 3:00 pm
Moderator: Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University): “The Translational Fabric of Migrant Writing”
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2:45 – 3:20 pm – Coffee break
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3:20 – 4:45 pm – Staging and Performing Translation
Moderator: Jerry Wasserman (University of British Columbia)
Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia): “Staging Commedia dell’arte and Comédie Française in Classical Weimar: Schiller, Gozzi and Picard”
G. Filacanapa (Paris VIII) “Contemporary translations of Lazzi in “The Green Bird” from Carlo Gozzi: rediscovering Italianness”
Michael Rössner (University of Munich): “Lost in Translation? Problems of understanding in Luigi Pirandello’s plays from Il berretto a sonagli to I giganti della montagna”
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4:45 – 5:15 pm – Coffee break
Moderator: Greg Piccini (Famee Furlane)
5:15 – 6:15 pm – Found in Translation: A presentation by the Bellaluna Ensemble with Susan Bertoia, Stefano Giulianetti, Diego Bastianutti and John Emmet Tracy
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6:15 – 7:30 pm – Reception