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Wednesday
, October 28
Madera
6:00pm •
Opening Reception!
Thursday
, October 29
Boardroom
11:15am •
The Perils and Pleasures of Editing an Anthology of Translations
2:00pm •
Translating Verse Without Fluency in the Source Language: Assessments of and Strategies for an Old Tradition at the Crossroads
3:45pm •
Translating “The Other Side”
Café Passé (415 N. 4th Ave.)
12:45pm •
NTA Longlist & Stryk Shortlist Reading
5:15pm •
Offsite Bilingual Readings 1: Café Français
Canyon A
11:15am •
Bilingual Readings 1: Mexico
2:00pm •
Midnight’s Foster Children: Raising South Asian Books in English-speaking Homes
3:45pm •
Finding Models in Target-Language Poetics
Canyon B
11:15am •
(Re)Touched by An Angel? Changing Portraits as Fictional Characters Traverse between Languages/Cultures
2:00pm •
Trafficking in Smoke Signals? Attempts at Conveying Ethnicity in Translation
3:45pm •
“They Don’t Need to Know”: Translation and Cultural Exceptionalism
Canyon C
11:15am •
Curated Readings (Feminist Press and Asymptote)
2:00pm •
History, Culture, Memory: Forgetting Russian Women, Stereotyping Greek Lit, Forcing (Non-)German Identities, and Disappearing a Spanish Political Activist
3:45pm •
Traffic Among Cultures: Double-Layered Translation
Conference Room 224
11:15am •
Bilingual Readings 2: Balkan
2:00pm •
Bilingual Readings 3: Catalan and Basque
3:45pm •
Bilingual Readings 4: Argentina
Madera
11:15am •
Traveling Through the Newly Opened Cuba
2:00pm •
“Trafficking” across Borders
3:45pm •
Difficult Passages: An Interactive Workshop
6:30pm •
ALTA Fellows Reading
Madera, Pima
9:30am •
Stephen Snyder Keynote
Pima
11:15am •
Moral Rights, Subsidiary Rights, and Divorcing Your Publisher
2:00pm •
Where are the Women in Translation?
3:45pm •
Reviewing Translation
Pima and Sabino
7:30pm •
ALTA Awards Reception
Sabino
8:30am •
First Time ALTA Participants
11:15am •
Digital Translation Journals as Innovators
2:00pm •
Teaching Translation Workshops
3:45pm •
Navigating Troubling Waters
The Canyons
9:30pm •
Declamación
Ventana
10:30am •
ALTA Book Exhibit
Friday
, October 30
Boardroom
9:00am •
Who Knew?—a Tell-All Panel on Asian Poetries in English Translation
11:00am •
River Plate Tectonics: Women Poets of Argentina and Uruguay
2:00pm •
Translators as Acknowledged Meaning Traffickers
3:45pm •
Trafficking in meaning: the importance of context
Café Passé (415 N. 4th Ave.)
8:30pm •
Offsite Bilingual Readings 2: Café Latino
Canyon A
9:00am •
Bilingual Readings 5: Spain
11:00am •
Pets, Epithets and Sobriquets, or Sometimes a Bignose is Just a Schnoz
2:00pm •
What's Happened in Mainland Chinese Poetry during the Last 40 Years?
3:45pm •
Russian Translation Workshop
Canyon B
9:00am •
What Prefaces Reveal
11:00am •
Issues in the Translation of Classical Japanese Poetry
2:00pm •
French Prose Translation Workshop
3:45pm •
Translating Computational Literature
Canyon C
9:00am •
History of Translating Contemporary Arabic Literature
11:00am •
New in Translated Fiction: Reading followed by Q&A
2:00pm •
The Trafficking of Dialogue
3:45pm •
Vernaculars as the Substantiation of Traffic: A Challenge for Translation
Conference Room 224
9:00am •
Bilingual Readings 6: Romance and Mediterranean
11:00am •
Bilingual Readings 7: Arabic and Farsi
2:00pm •
Bilingual Readings 8: Russian and Polish
3:45pm •
Bilingual Readings 9: Francophone
Crowder Hall (University of Arizona)
6:30pm •
Jerome Rothenberg Keynote
Madera
9:00am •
Transits of History: Contemporary Writing from Latin America
11:00am •
Spanish Prose Translation Workshop
2:00pm •
Translator’s Subjectivity, Ideology, Ethics
3:45pm •
Trafficking Noir
Pima
9:00am •
Cash and Prizes: How Grants and Awards Contribute to a Sustainable U.S. Literary Culture
11:00am •
Information Superhighway or End of the Road? Implications of the Compulsory Electronic Deposit of Theses
2:00pm •
The Great Canadian Roundabout? Literary Translation in Canada
3:45pm •
The Making of Originals: Translation as a Form of Editing
Sabino
9:00am •
Editors Roundtable: Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction
11:00am •
Wrong Turns: On Making Mistakes in Translation
2:00pm •
The Perils of Punctuation
3:45pm •
Hooray! All Is Lost!
The Poetry Center (1508 E. Helen St.)
12:15pm •
University of Arizona Poetry Center Tour
Ventana
8:30am •
ALTA Book Exhibit
Saturday
, October 31
Boardroom
11:15am •
Balkan Crossings
2:15pm •
Uruguay Rising: A Conversation Between the Translators
4:00pm •
Mentorship Meetings, by invitation only
Café Passé (415 N. 4th Ave.)
1:00pm •
2015 ALTA Mentorship Presentations and Readings
5:30pm •
Offsite Bilingual Readings 3: Café Français
Canyon A
11:15am •
Bilingual Readings 10: Chinese
2:15pm •
Bilingual Readings 12: ATTLC/LTAC (Literary Translators Association of Canada)
4:00pm •
CANCELLED The Voice of Mirta Yañez
Canyon B
11:15am •
Translating Russian Poetry: The Challenge of Form
2:15pm •
Text, Context, & Politics Intersections in Translation
4:00pm •
Sentence vs. Line: Trafficking in the Units that Compel in Prose and Poetry
Canyon C
11:15am •
Translating Contemporary Latin American Poets and Writers: Embracing, Resisting, Escaping the Magnetic Pull of the Capital
2:15pm •
When 3% Felt Like 30: a Roundtable on Literary Translation in the’60s and ’70s
4:00pm •
Curated Readings (Words without Borders and Archipelago)
Conference Room 224
11:15am •
Bilingual Readings 11: Germanic
2:15pm •
Bilingual Readings 13: South Asia
4:00pm •
Bilingual Readings 14: Brazil
Madera
11:15am •
A Question of Style
2:15pm •
Membership Open-Forum
4:00pm •
Easy and Hard in Translation
Madera and Pima
9:30am •
General Membership Meeting
Madera, Pima, and Sabino
7:00pm •
Closing Event: Mario Bellatín & Valeria Luiselli
Pima
11:15am •
Editing Translation
2:15pm •
ITALIAN TRAFFIC (JAMS)
4:00pm •
Teaching Translation to Monolingual Students
Sabino
11:15am •
Approaching Wholeness in Another Language: Translating Poetic Fragments
2:15pm •
Theater of the Translated
4:00pm •
Barter & Compromise: Translating Poetry from Indigenous Languages via Spanish
Ventana
8:30am •
ALTA Book Exhibit
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