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The 海角社区 Translation Studies Network (CTSN) aims to bring together all those interested in translation across the Humanities and Social Sciences, to promote translation as research in an interdisciplinary context, and to support students involved in any aspect of translation studies.
To further these aims, the CTSN plan to host a regular series of seminars and workshops throughout the year.
Membership call
If you are a translator or carry out research on translation in the University, you are very welcome to become affiliated to the 海角社区 Translation Studies Network. If you would like to join us, please write to 脕ngeles Carreres (ac289) providing your name, title and a link to your University staff page. We hope this will be a first step in developing a sense of community and collaboration opportunities amongst translation scholars and practitioners within the University. Please note that we can only accept requests from colleagues and graduate students affiliated to the University or the Colleges.
Current events
Easter Term 2025 events will be announced shortly here.听
Previous events
Lent Term 2024/25
- Wednesday 19 February:听James Womack (海角社区) 鈥� Translating Poetry.听5鈥�6:30pm, LB8, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site. This open-language workshop will identify some of the main issues encountered in the translation of poetry and offer a set of hands-on exercises for participants to engage in.
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- Wednesday 5 March:听Paschalis Nikolaou (Ionian University) 鈥� Closing the distance: Creativity and invention in classical translation. 5鈥�6pm, . The transmission of ancient Greek and Latin texts into anglophone literatures has been exquisitely diverse, particularly in the wake of modernism, and all the way to recent examples. This talk will present several reasons for retranslation, hybridity and translation as experiment.
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- Thursday 20 March:听Helen Vassallo (University of Exeter) 鈥� Navigating the "in-between": Translation practice, research and activism. 4鈥�5pm, LB8, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.听This talk will discuss how working at the intersection of translation research and practice offers a productive and stimulating knowledge exchange, but will also confront the complex and often messy realities of navigating the 鈥渋n-between鈥� space, straddling both and not belonging entirely to either one.
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Michaelmas Term 2024/25
- Thursday 7 November 2024 (5:30-7pm) at the Heong Gallery, Downing College听with Daniel Hahn.听Daniel translates from Portuguese, Spanish and French. He has over 40 books to his name, and has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (The Book of Chameleons) and the International Dublin Literary Award (A General Theory of Oblivion), amongst others.听Daniel will be in conversation with 脕ngeles Carreres听and听Maya Feile Tomes.
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- Thursday 14 November 2024 (2-3:30pm) in Room T9, Downing College with Martin Munro.听Martin is Eminent Scholar and Winthrop-King Professor at Florida State University. This informal talk, titled 'Tokyo Stories: Translating Micha毛l Ferrier', will present the work of Micha毛l Ferrier, before discussing the experiences and challenges of translating this author and of literary translation more generally.
