Daily Archives: 25 May 2016

Chaucer as Translator/ Translating Chaucer Symposium @ University of Western Australia

Chaucer as Translator/ Translating Chaucer Symposium

Date: 7 June 2016
Time: 1-4pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room 1.33, First Floor Arts, The University of Western Australia
Registration: The symposium is open to all interested, but places are limited. Please register your interest with Pam Bond pam.bond@uwa.edu.au.

How do we read Chaucer in the knowledge that much of his work is translation? How do we ‘translate’ Chaucer, in a broad sense, into contemporary worlds? This symposium explores those questions, with input from Chaucer scholars working on emotion and affect in various aspects of medieval and medievalism studies: global translation and adaptation; imaginative and sociopolitical geographies; desire and embodiment in literature; literature, ethics and emotion.

Speakers:

  • Professor Candace Barrington (English Department, Central Connecticut State University, USA) – ‘Translating Emotions in The Canterbury Tales’
  • Dr Michael Barbezat (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) UWA) – ‘The Pardoner’s Tale: Normality, Aberrance, Corporeality’
  • Clare Davidson (Postgraduate, UWA) – ‘Translating Feeling in Troilus and Criseyde’
  • Dr Paul Megna (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CHE, UWA) – ‘Chaucerian Parrhesia’

New Book Series, Renaissance History, Art & Culture – Call For Proposals

General Editors: Christopher Celenza; Samuel Cohn, Jr.; Andrea Gamberini; Geraldine Johnson; and Isabella Lazzarini.

This series investigates the Renaissance as a complex intersection of political and cultural processes that radiated across Italian territories into wider worlds of influence, not only throughout Western Europe, but into Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Americas. It is alive to the best writing of a transnational and comparative nature and crosses canonical chronological divides. The intent of the series is to spark new ideas and encourage debate on the meanings, extent and influence of the Renaissance within Europe, broadly defined, and the wider world. It encourages engagement by scholars across disciplines—history, literature, art history, musicology, and even the social sciences—and focuses on ideas and collective mentalities as social, political, and cultural movements that shaped a changing world from ca. 1250 to 1650.

For more information, or to submit a proposal, please contact one of the acquisitions editors: Tyler Cloherty, tcloherty@arc-humanities.org, or Erika Gaffney, Erika.Gaffney@arc-humanities.org. Or, visit: http://en.aup.nl/series/renaissance-history-art-and-culture.