Trust and Proof: Translators in Early Modern Print Culture
An International Symposium
Hosted by the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
14–15 August, 2015

Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited. To register visit: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/trustandproof

For further information please contact Nadine Forsythe soll-events@unimelb.edu.au or phone +61 03 8344 7482

The influence of translators as cultural agents in early modern Europe was both enhanced and complicated by the growth of the print industry. This symposium interrogates the role and self-image of translators in the context of early modern print culture. How did they seek to exploit new opportunities for the increased reach and currency of their work? In presenting their efforts to their ideal readers, translators routinely insist upon the trustworthiness and creativity of their craft. Celebrating the mediated nature of printed texts, a range of international scholars will address the scope and anxieties of the translator’s task in early modern Europe.

Timetable for Friday 14 August

Theatre 227, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
9.00am
Welcome

9.15–10.15am
ANTHONY PYM (ROVIRA I VIRGILI, SPAIN)- Print and Modernity in Translation

10.15–10.45am
Morning Tea

10.45–11.45am
BELÉN BISTUÉ (CONICET AND UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO, ARGENTINA) – ‘Most profitable for all qualities of persons’:
Multi-Version Texts and Translators’ Anxieties in Early Modern Europe

11.45–12.30pm
ANDREA RIZZI (MELBOURNE)- ‘Praising the others’ skills’: Multiple and Collaborative Translation in the Italian Renaissance

12.30–2.00pm
Lunch

2.00–3.00pm
BRIAN RICHARDSON (LEEDS) – The Social Transmission of Translations in Renaissance Italy: Strategies of Dedication

3.00–3.30pm
Afternoon Tea

3.30–4.30pm
ROSALIND SMITH (NEWCASTLE) – ‘Reputed femall, delivered at second hand’: Women, Translation and Religion in Sixteenth-century England

4.30–5.30pm
DEANNA SHEMEK (CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ) – RESPONDENT
Discussion

Timetable for Saturday 15 August

10.00am–12.30pm Graduate Study Space / Seminar room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Symposium speakers will present and discuss relevant rare books from the Baillieu Library collections, including Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Polyphili (printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499).