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RO-UK Conference on Creativity in Translation

This document provides an agenda for the RO-UK Conference on Norm and Creativity. The keynote speaker from 10:00-11:00 am is Jeremy Muday from the University of Leeds who will discuss creativity in translating modern Latin American literature into English. He will examine what is meant by "creative" in translation and how constraints on creativity may vary over time and sociocultural circumstances using examples from his research on translations of Latin American boom writers from the 1960s onward. The afternoon includes several speakers on topics related to norms in spoken poetry, the African American tradition, grammar teaching, and the use of the English tenses.

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RO-UK Conference on Creativity in Translation

This document provides an agenda for the RO-UK Conference on Norm and Creativity. The keynote speaker from 10:00-11:00 am is Jeremy Muday from the University of Leeds who will discuss creativity in translating modern Latin American literature into English. He will examine what is meant by "creative" in translation and how constraints on creativity may vary over time and sociocultural circumstances using examples from his research on translations of Latin American boom writers from the 1960s onward. The afternoon includes several speakers on topics related to norms in spoken poetry, the African American tradition, grammar teaching, and the use of the English tenses.

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Tuesday 23 October

RO-UK CONFERENCE
NORM AND CREATIVITY
Ferdinand lecture hall
10.00 11.00 Keynote speaker: Jeremy Muday, University of Leeds,
UK,
Creativity in the translation into English of Modern Latin American
literature
o! creative can a translator "e and any!ay !hat do !e #ean "y
$creative$ in this sense% &hat constraints are i#posed on that creativity and
ho! does this vary over ti#e and socio'cultural circu#stance% (hese are
)uestions * intend to discuss, usin+ e,a#ples dra!n fro# #y research into
the translations of the Latin -#erican "oo# !riters of the 1./0s on!ards.
*n particular, * shall present so#e findin+s of recent archive !ork carried out
on translator papers and #anuscripts related to the the translations of 0arlos
Fuentes, 1ario 2ar+as Llosa and Jor+e Luis 3or+es.4
11.00 11.50 Co!!ee brea"
11.50 16.00 Adr#escu Radu$ Spoken Poetry: the rules of
social discontent
16.00 16.50 Oaa Co%eau: Creating the Norm: The
African
American Tradition
16.50 15.00 Ce&a Aca' Ce&a Nad#a: !f ! had have
"een#
on the $e"
15.00 15.50 Dobo( Da#e)a$ %uestioning &rammar Teaching Norms:
The Case of the English Tenses

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