Programme

Reading in Translation: Approaches to the Study of the

Reception of Translated Literature

Monday 17^th May

10:00 Introduction and welcome with Jennifer Arnold

10:30-12:00 Panel 1 — Readers in the Text

- Owen Harrington Fernández: Censored Interactions in Translation: A Model

- Marjorie Huet-Martin: Translating for ‘cultural outsider readers’: the case of Ian Rankin’s Rebus novels

- Sarah Gear: What Do We Really Want to Read? Adventures in Contemporary Russian Fiction

(Chair: Duygu Tekgül-Akin)

12:00-12.15 Coffee and networking

12:15-13:45 Panel 2 — Translating Theatre: Translation, Readings and Performance

- Helena Buffery: Reading The Future: Rehearsed Readings and Border Crossings

- Anna Lessa: Readers and Performers of Theatre of the Oppressed in Different Languages

- Roksana Niewadzisz: Rehearsed reading of "In the Beginning" by Victoria Szpunberg

(Chair: Elisa Serra Porteiro)

13:45-14:30 Lunch and networking

14:30-16:00 Panel 3 — Reader reviews

- Malin Podlevskikh Carlström: Receiving the Intertextual: The Reception of Tatyana Tolstaya’s Kys’ in Sweden and the United States

- Laura Linares: Who reads the "periphery?”: Supply-driven translation, publishing trends and the readers of Galician fiction in English

- Tiffane Levick: Fact or Fiction? Reading and Receiving Life on the Fringes

(Chair: Duygu Tekgül Akin)

16:00-16:30 Coffee and networking

16:30-17:30 Keynote 1 — Leo Tak Hung Chan: Rediscovering the “Real” Reader of Translations: From Historical to Empiricist Approaches

18:00 The Translator and the Reader — a roundtable with Daniel Hahn, Anton Hur and Gitanjali Patel

Tuesday 18^th May

9:30-11:00 Panel 4 — Methodological approaches to reader research

- Callum Walker: Idiosyncrasies and Commonalities in the Reading Experience of Salient Style:Insights from an Eye-tracking Experiment

- Lettie Dorst & Katinka Zeven, Leiden University: Daisy Buchanan in Retranslation: Characterization and Reader Reception

- Cliona ni Rhiordain: Disoriental: translation and reception through the prism of the paratext

(Chair: Elizabeth Rosales Martínez)

11:00-11:30 Coffee and networking

11:30-13:00 Researching Reading groups: A Methodological approach — with Bethan Benwell, Jennifer Arnold, and Duygu Tekgül-Akin

(Chair: Helena Buffery)

13:00-14:00 Lunch and Networking

14:00- 15:00 Reading outside your Comfort Zone – Ann Morgan and Helen Vassallo in conversation

(Chair: Helena Buffery)

15:15-16:15 Blogging the world — A round table discussion with Stuart Allen (Winston's Dad), David Hebblethwaite (David's Book World), and Marcia Jarnell (Lizzy’s literary life)

(Chair: Jennifer Arnold)

16:15 – 17:15 Keynote 2 — Danielle Fuller: Book Events, Babbling Beasts and Bestsellers: Researching Shared Reading

17:30-18:30 The Publisher and the Reader — a publishing round table with Tice Cin (Tilted Axis), Maddie Rogers (Peirenne) and Emma Wright (The Emma Project).

18:30 Closing remarks with Jennifer Arnold