Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Translation in Dialogue - A half-day symposium at the University of Warwick

Please feel welcome to join Translation@Warwick on Friday 30 April from 1 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. for a half day of readings and discussion with translators and publishers as we explore the relationship between women in translation and independent publishing, featuring titles from indies Smokestack Books, Praspar Press and Les Fugitives.

Please register here: https://forms.gle/hfEPF9pt6DjEDbD7A.

Organised by Arianna Autieri and Lúcia Collischonn of the Warwick Writing Programme, with support from the Arts Impact Fund.

1:10 Introduction by Olga Castro

1:25 Collaborative translation of feminist poetry - Readings and discussion - The Streets of Algiers and Other Poems by Anna Gréki (Smokestack Books) Cristina Viti and Souheila Haïmiche

2:35 Praspar Press – A collaborative, feminist approach - Readings and discussion - mill-bieb ’il ġewwa - by Loranne Vella (Praspar Press) Kat Storace and Jen Calleja

3:45 Translation as hospitality - Readings and discussion - Translation as Transhumance and This Tilting World (Les Fugitives) Ros Schwartz and Sophie Lewis

4:45 The publisher’s view - A discussion with Maureen Freely and Cécile Menon