Tradução como transbordamento: na antessala do ENTRAD 2025/UFBA
Convidamos para um encontro com nossos parceiros internacionais Alice Leal (Wits University Johannesburg) e David Spitzer (Pennsylvania State University e Binghamton University) para discutir temas conexos aos simpósio Prismas da Tradução: transfiction, transbordamentos, perspectivas adjacentes e o pensamento complexo* (organização: Leila Darin, Lauro Amorin e Paulo Oliveira), a ser realizado em novembro de 2025, no âmbito do Encontro de Tradutores da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Tradução (ABRAPT), na Faculdade de Letras da UFBA. A interlocução será em inglês. Apoio: Grupo de Trabalho Estética, Subjetividade, Cultura, Educação (CNPq e PPGF/UFBA). Uma gravação do evento será disponibilizada no Canal YouTube do PPGF/UFBA.
* Symposia - https://www.abrapt.org.br/entrad/simposios/ (clicar n sinal de – descrição do primeiro para ver a lista; depois clicar no sinal de + para ver descrição)
Translation as overflow: in the antechamber of ENTRAD 2025/UFBA
We invite you to a meeting with our international partners Alice Leal (Wits University Johannesburg) and David Spitzer (Pennsylvania State University and Binghamton University) to discuss topics related to the symposium Prisms of Translation: transfiction, overflows, adjacent perspectives, and complex thinking (organized by Leila Darin, Lauro Amorin, and Paulo Oliveira), to be held in November 2025, as part of the 2025 Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Translation Researchers (ABRAPT), at the Faculty of Letters of UFBA. The discussion will be in English. A recording of the event will be available on the PPGF/UFBA YouTube channel.
* Symposia - https://www.abrapt.org.br/entrad/simposios/ (click on the – sign to see the description of the first one and then click on the + sign to see the description)
The meeting will be held on September 24th (Wednesday) at 10-12 a.m. Brasília time (GMT-3) in a Zoom room protected by password. Please send your enrollment data with name, institution and e-mail to Paulo Oliveira (olivp@unicamp.br). Deadline: September 17th (Wednesday).
Alice Leal has published two books at the interface of translation with language policies: English and Translation in the European Union (open source: PDF) and Language Policy and the Future of Europe. A Conversation with Seán Ó Rian. Leal has co-edited (with Larisa Cercel) the collection The Translator’s Visibility. New Debates and Epistemologies. She is also co-editor of a new journal: Philosophy of Translation.
David M. Spitzer has edited the book Philosophy’s Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation (PDF sample) and co-edited (with Paulo Oliveira) the collection Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation. Essays in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo. His latest book at the interface of philosophy with translation is Parmenides & Translation. Figures of Motion, Figures of Being, to appear by Peter Lang (see review by Bruno Palavro and Paulo Oliveira, forthcoming in the aforementioned journal Philosophy of Translation, in English and Portuguese).
Larisa Cercel, our third guest, could not fit our meeting in her schedule. Additionally to the aforementioned title co-edited with Alice Leal, we would like to point to her work at the Forschungszentrum Hermeneutik und Kreativität and to a new book title: Translation as Event. Performing and Staging Translations (PDF sample).