Programm
Translation and the Archive: Performance, Practice, Negotiation International Symposium
Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz, Düsseldorf
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
12:00-16:00 hrs. HdU, seminar room
Graduate/PhD students meet and greet, workshop-type research exchange with Ato Quayson
17:00 hrs.
Registration, refreshments in the lobby, slow slide show (PhD/graduate student projects)
17:30 hrs.
Conference Opening, HdU Main Lecture Hall Welcome: Marc Caplan and Eva Ulrike Pirker
Reading and performance
Esther Dischereit
Flowers for Otello. On the Crimes that came out of Jena
Chair: Iain Galbraith
Keynote Lecture
Ato Quayson
Tragedy, Disputatiousness, and Postcolonial History: From the Greeks to George Floyd
Chair: Marc Caplan
Thursday, 1 June
9:15 hrs.
Welcome, housekeeping
9:30 hrs.
Panel 1
Chair: Martina Nicklaus
Irina Dumitrescu
Binders Full of Women: Chaucer and the Failures of the Archive
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
Reshuffling the Archive: Organic and Portable Repositories in Caribbean Literature (John Agard, Olive Senior, Lorna Goodison)
10:30 hrs. Coffee Break
11:00 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Martina Nicklaus
11:30 hrs.
Panel 2
Chair: Eva-Maria Troelenberg
Jessica Kirzane
Not Written on Water: Preserving the Literary Recovery of Yiddish Women’s Writings
Sophie Duvernoy
Historical Memory and the Task of Translation in Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers
12:30 hrs.
Lunch break (Catering HdU)
13:30 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Eva-Maria Troelenberg
14:00 hrs.
Panel 3
Chair: Marion Aptroot
Anita Norich
Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation Matters
Rolf Kailuweit
Translational Identities – The Spanish Archives of the Catalan Bourgeoisie in the 19th Century
15:00 hrs. Coffee Break
15:30 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Marion Aptroot
16:00 hrs.
Panel 4
Chair: Eva Ulrike Pirker
Suzanne Scafe
Category Failure: Beryl Gilroy and the Shadow of the Archives
Birgit Neumann
Spectral Multilingualism - Ghostly Presences in the Anglophone Archive
17:00 hrs.
Break/walk to Studiobühne, Theatermuseum
18:00 hrs.
Performance
Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
I Step on Air
20:00 hrs. Conference Dinner in town
Friday, 2 June
9:00 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Eva Ulrike Pirker
9:30 hrs.
Panel 5
Chair: Volker Dörr
Layla Zami
Afro-German Im/Possibilities: Negotiating Power Through Literary and Performative Interventions
Sarah Phillips Casteel
From Image to Text: Translating the Photographic Archive of Black Experience under Nazism
10:30 hrs. Coffee Break
11:00 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Volker Dörr
11:30 hrs.
Panel 6
Chair: Marc Caplan
Ana Délia Rogobete
Thinking History, War, and Trauma Through Fictional Archive: Walid Raad and The Atlas Group
Christine Richter-Nilsson
Reconstructing the Archive of a Polish Shtetl
12:30 hrs.
Lunch break (catering HdU)
13:30 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Marc Caplan
14:00 hrs.
Panel 7
Chair: Vera E. Gerling
Belén Santana and Cris Travieso
Lost in Paperwork. Literary Translators in Spanish State Archives (PARES)
Adriana X. Jacobs
Translation as Avoda: Hebrew Literature and the Work of Translation
15:00 hrs. Coffee Break
15:30 hrs.
Plenary, Chair: Vera E. Gerling
16:00 hrs.
Panel 8
Chair: Marc Caplan and Eva Ulrike Pirker
Final plenary with Vera Elisabeth Gerling, Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Christina Slopek, Katrijn van den Bossche
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Note on the format: The breaks (lunch, coffee, evenings) will be used as space for debate, discussion and feedback. Debates on each panel will ensue in the plenary following the break after the panel. Speakers will be asked to comment on the questions and feedback they received during the breaks at the beginning of the ensuing plenary sessions.