Trans- Conference 2016
Friday, March 4th, 2016
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 4, 2016 | 9:00AM - 8:30PM | External Event, Alumni Hall Victoria University 91 Charles St. West |
Series
26th annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature
Description
9:00-9:45 Registration and coffee
9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
Jill Ross, Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
10:00-11:30 Translation
Linguistic Markedness in Translation: Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros
Mélissa Gélinas – Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (USA)
I Make Myself the Cave to Catch your Echo: Three Poetics of Translation
Fan Wu – Independent Scholar
Translation as a Lens for Cultural Negotiation
Paula Karger – Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
11:30-13:00 Identities
‘What I Wanted to Wear’: The Battle for Self-Expression Amidst Transphobic Street Violence
Anna Kozak – Literatures of Modernity, Ryerson University
Transcending Race: Suheir Hammad’s Construction of Black(ness)
Denijal Jegić – Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
(Germany)
Black Transhumanism, Technoculture, and New Negro Modernity: Afro-postmodern politics of
race in George Schuyler’s Black No More
Myungsung Kim – English, Arizona State University (USA)
13:00-14:30 Break with lunch
14:30-16:00 Trans- en français
Transcription du Sourd: La trace du corps dans la langue
Lisanne Larivière – Litérature Comparée, Université de Montréal
Récits transmis, mélangés, différés: quelques adaptations cinématographiques de romans à tiroirs
Jessy Neau – French, University of Western Ontario/Université de Poitiers
Postcolonial Space in a Global Network: Trans-national connexions in the French banlieue
Christina Horvath – French, University of Bath (UK)
16:00-17:00 Break with snacks
17:00-18:30 Keynote Address I
Operatic Transformation: Translation, Adaptation, Transladaptation
Linda and Michael Hutcheon – English, Comparative Literature and Medicine, University of
Toronto
18:30 Wine and cheese social with cello and viola da gamba performance by Felix Deak of the IFURIOSI Baroque Ensemble
Centre for Comparative Literature
Isabella Bader Theatre, 3rd Floor
93 Charles Street West, Toronto
20:30 Theatre Performance – In Sundry Languages
** Registration required
Luella Massey Studio Theatre
4 Glen Morris Street, Toronto
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