Day: November 9, 2015

The conference ‘Interpreting Communities: Minority Writing in European Literary Fields’ took place at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London on 29th and 30th October 2015.   The programme covered a variety of languages and cultural contexts, from Basque literature to postcolonial Italian writing.   Loredana Polezzi, from the TML project, spoke on re-reading translation…Continue Reading Re-reading translation ethics and politics in relation to contemporary mobile communities

20th October 2015, 18.00 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas   Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University From truth to honesty: migration, writing and self-translation Traditional models of translation are deeply associated with the language of faithfulness and betrayal, while travel accounts, like all factual writing, are often judged on their authenticity. Yet migrant authors often…Continue Reading From truth to honesty: migration, writing and self-translation