CRASSH

12.00 - 12.45

Registration

12.45 - 13.00

Welcome and Introduction
Dame Gillian Beer and Conveners 

13.00 - 15.00

Visual Arts and Literature
Chair: Sylvia Karastathi  (University of Cambridge)

‘Is Photography an Art?’: Virginia Woolf on painting, photography and Russian writers
Darya Protopopova (New College, University of Oxford)

The Art of Doodle
Mariya Ustymenko  (Dept of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex)

Dino Buzzati and Arthur Rackham: an intermedial and intercultural relationship
Valentina Polcini (Dept of Modern Languages, University of Exeter)

Samuel Beckett: identity as art object
Georgina Guy (English Dept, King’s College London)  

15.00 - 15.20 

Tea & Coffee Break

15.20 - 16.50

Poetry and Music
Chair: Michael Hurley  (University of Cambridge)

Rhythm as medium: a psychosomatic approach to the translation of formal poetry
Antoinette Fawcett (School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia)

'Rather like, or unlike... a fugue': analogy or translation for The Music of Poetry
Katherine Firth (English, Oxford Brookes University)

Revealing the Secrets of the Ayan: drum poems from the Akyem Kingdom of Ghana
Nana Oforiatta-Ayim (Dept of African Languages & Cultures, School of Oriental & African Studies) 

16.50 - 17.00

Break

17.00 - 18.20

Plenary I

Intermediality and Synaesthesia: literary translation as centrifugal Practice
Prof. Clive Scott  (University of East Anglia)

18.20

Reception

9.30 - 11.00

Performance and Translation
Chair: Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla (Newcastle)

Poetic Gestures, Modernist Choreographies
Cecile Guédon (London Consortium, Birkbeck College)  

Translating Performance: Electra cha-cha-cha?
Kate Eaton (School of English and Drama, Queen Mary)

Translation in performance: meaning and theatrical shift in Tony Harrison’s translation of Hecuba by Euripides
Geraldine Brodie (Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London)

11.00 - 11.15

Tea & Coffee Break 

11.15 - 12.30

Plenary II

Pastoral After History: The Apple Orchard (Sebald, Hamburger, Richter)
Prof. Mary Jacobus (University of Cambridge) 

12.30 - 13.30 

Lunch 

13.30 - 15.30 

Translation / Theory
Chair:  Dr Karen Seago

Language as Media: Belarusian-English Literary Translation
Svetlana Skomorokhova (Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick)

A Metamorphosis? Translation as rewriting in Kafka and Borges
Sarah Roger  (St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

This language I speak, it's haunted’. Reading and Translation in Patchwork Girl
Rose Hepworth (Screen Media and Cultures, University of Cambridge)

Plato's Play-dough, or For Cheerful Spirits Find a Happy Medium: The Origins and Significance of the Materialist Conceptualisation of Translation
Miles Layram (English and Related Literature, York University) 

15.30 

Closing remarks