The Fabricant: Symposium on the Figure of the Translator

Keynote Speakers:

Jerome Rothenberg & Suzanne Jill Levine

9:30 AM: Registration and continental breakfast

10:00 AM: Inauguration ceremony

John Majewski, Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts
María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy
Suzanne Jill Levine, Director of Translation Studies
Osiris A. Go?mez, Co-organizer
Toloo Riazi, Co-organizer

10:30 - 12:00 PM: Session I: Translator or Traitor: Crossing Cultural, Political and Literary Boundaries

Chair: Juan Pablo Lupi
                    
Toloo Riazi, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Translating Latin American Literature in Revolutionary Iran”
                    
Osiris A. Go?mez, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Ghost Poet: Writing and Translating Indigenous Poetry in XXI Century Mexico”
                    
Carolina Geaquinto Paganine, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
"The Sad End of Policarpo Cuaresma: Studying the Translations of a Brazilian Classic"

Gloria E. Chacón, University of California, San Diego
“Contemporary Indigenous Writers and the Bi-languaging of the Text”

12:15 - 1:15 PM: Keynote Address

Presents: Sara Poot-Herrera

Suzanne Jill Levine, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Voice(s) of the Translator”

1:30 - 2:45 PM: Lunch, catered by Los Agaves Mexican Restaurant

2:45 - 4:15 PM: Session II: Translation and the Challenges of Gender, Intention and Meaning

Chair: André Corrêa de Sá

Caragh Barry, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Tra(n)svoyagers: Women Translators in Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World and Idra Novey’s Ways of Disappearing”
 
Andrés Carrete, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Tragic Loss of Ambiguity: Spanish Translations of Sophocles’ Antigone”

Cesar Osuna, California State University, Northridge
“The Translations or Mis-translations of Don Quixote: Questioning the Role of the Translator”

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, University of Pennsylvania
“Translating ‘Race’ In Early 20th Century Armenian Feminists Texts”

4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee Break

4:30 - 5:30 PM: Keynote Address

Presents: Francisco A. Lomelí

Jerome Rothenberg, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
“Toward a Poetry and Poetics of the Americas: A Transnational Assemblage in Progress”

*Closing Remarks*

Toloo Riazi and Osiris Gómez

Co-organizers:

Osiris A. Go?mez and Toloo Riazi

Collaborators:

Andrés Carrete
Jovana Gómez
Yunuen Gómez
Julissa Peña

Special Thanks:

Erika Navarro-Mader
Teresa Salinas
Lizeth Angeles Herna?ndez
Oscar Panduro
Jessica Valadez

Co-sponsors:

Associated Students Bookstore
College of Letters and Science
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Graduate Division
Humanities and Fine Arts
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Multicultural Center
Translation Studies Program