Media Advisory: Translation Conference

The Traveling Text

Event: The focus of this conference is to create a Gulf-based platform to discuss issues related to translation. The conference will function at both theoretical and practical levels. Panels of top literary translators will discuss philosophies and strategies of translation in general. Groups of translators will meet in workshops with leading practitioners and educators to focus on various aspects of the craft in relation to Arabic/English and English/Arabic translation.

Program:

Sunday, April 3, 2011

9:30am Registration

10:00am Workshop Session One *

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Plenary Session One: “The Way I Work”

3:00pm Workshop Session Two

5:00pm Plenary Session Two: “Book to Book/ Page to Page”

Monday, April 4, 2011

9:00am Workshop Session Three

11:30am Public round table of plenary speakers and leaders – “Ways Forward”

* Please visit http://qatar.cmu.edu/1111/workshops for workshop details.

Moderator:

Ahdaf Soueif – Author, political and cultural commentator

Plenary Speakers:

Amanda Hopkinson – Professor of Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia

Daniel Hahn – Writer, editor and translator

Jason Grunebaum – Writer and translator

Arch Tait – Editor and translator

Where: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Education City

Book sale: Books authored by the plenary speakers and books published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing will be available for purchase at the conference. Please visit qatarcmudev.wpengine.com/translation for more information.