Programme of the Warwick School of Feminist Translation

Thursday, 11 May 2023

• 1:00-1:15pm: Opening with Professor Katherine Astbury, Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick.
• 1:15-2:45pm: Dr Emek Ergun, Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: "The Making of Transnational Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation"
• 2:45-3:30pm: Social Coffee Break (for all participants)
• 3:30-5:00pm: Dr Olga Castro, Translation and Transcultural Studies, Warwick University: "Strategies for Feminist Translation in the Era of Transnational Feminism"
• 5:00-6:00pm: Reception

Friday, 12 May 2023

• 9:00-10:30am: Professor Maud Anne Bracke, Modern European History, University of Glasgow: "'All Feminism Is Translated': Historically Tracing Global Transfers and Local Recontextualisations in 20th Century Feminism"
• 10:30-11:00am: Social Coffee Break (for all participants)
• 11:00-12:30pm: Professor William Spurlin, English and Creative Writing, Brunel University London: "Migration and/as Translation: Border Crossings and New Spaces of Queer Translation in Contemporary Franco-Maghrebi Autofictional Writing"
• 12:30-1:30pm: Lunch Break (lunch provided to all participants)
• 1:30-3:30pm: Focused Feedback Sessions: Dr Olga Castro's group, Dr Emek Ergun's group, Prof Maud Bracke's group, Prof William Spurlin's group, Dr Luciana Carvalho Fonseca's group
• 3:30-5:00pm: Collective Feedback Session and Networking
• 5:00-5.30pm: Closing Remarks

Useful Information

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