April 19-20, 2024
Translation Across Time And Space
The departments of Classics and World Languages and Cultures (WLC) are co-hosting their first symposium on literary translation on the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Friday, April 19 - Saturday, April 20, 2024. The English word “translation” derives from the Latin translatio (“a carrying across”). The symposium will address the power of translation to carry ideas across temporal, cultural, and national borders. The keynote speakers will be Professors Richard Armstrong, University of Houston, speaking on “The Politics of Homeric Translation,” and Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, speaking on “The Bourgeois Shudder: Translating Dino Buzzati's Politics of Fantasy.” In addition to papers, participants will take part in two workshops moderated by each keynote speaker, and a panel featuring three to five additional experts in the field. The entire event will be hybrid in order to accommodate international colleagues and those who may not be able to travel.
This symposium is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Humanities Center, the Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development, and the Departments of Classics, World Languages and Cultures, and English.
