Events
1-3 October 2015
Presentation at Prismatic Translation conference, Oxford. Slides attached below
3-8 August 2104
Presentation at Shakespeare Institute biennial international conference, Stratford on Avon: 'Shakespeare, Origins and Originality'. Publication in Shakespeare Survey 68 (2015)
11 September 2012 - public event
We present the prototype Translation Array (Othello, 1.3, x 32 German versions) at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (Education), 14.00-17.30
Open to all. No charge. Demonstration, hands-on sessions, Q&A, discussion.
19 July 2012 - conference presentation
DH2012 - Hamburg - a 'long paper' at 15.00-15.30
16 May 2011 -
28 April - 1 May 2011 Seminar at Shakespeare's Shipwrecks: Spring conference of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft with the European Shakespeare Research Association, Weimar (Germany).
Seminar on 'The Aesthetics and Politics of Shakespeare (Re)Translation', convened by Tom Cheesman and Matthias Zach.
For abstracts, see the attachment below.
Reinhard Babel (Munich): Trauma und Translation. Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers als historisch-literarischer Imperativ in Heiner Müllers Hamletmaschine
Anna Cetera (Warsaw):Pollax on the Ice: On Translating Hamlet in Post-war Poland and the Birth of Kottian Criticism
Tom Cheesman (Swansea) (with David Berry, Alison Ehrmann, Zhao Geng, Robert S. Laramee, and Andrew Rothwell): Visualizing Variation in a Shakespeare Re-Translation Corpus (file attached below - 'tc shipwrecks paper.pdf')
Jane Dunnett (Swansea):Translating Tyranny in Mussolini’s Italy: Ten Takes on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Sameh F. Hanna (Salford): The Struggle over ‘Symbolic Time’: Shakespeare Retranslation in Arabic
Madalina Nicolaescu (Bucharest): Retranslating Hamlet for 21st-century Romanian audiences
Maria Elisa Montironi (Urbino): Brecht’s (Re)Translation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: Aesthetic Strategies and Political Implications.
Jesús Tronch (València):Vindicating Pablo Avecilla’s Spanish ‘Imitation’ of Hamlet (1856)
Matthias Zach (Nantes): ‘A Poetic Act of Resistance’? – Remarks on Celan’s Shakespeare Translations
2011: April 7-9. Un/Translatables: Across Germanic Languages and Cultures: conference at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Presentation by Tom Cheesman:" '… nicht dunkel, sondern Gold!' On Un/Re/Translatability". Slides are attached below.