AfroLab 2023 International Colloquium

Translation | Circulation

 

May 11/12, 2023

Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon rooms B112.B and B112.C

 

Program

 

may 11

 

09:30/10:00

Opening

Ana Paula Tavares

 

10:00 am / 11:00 am

Communications: MESA 1 Moderation: Sofia AfonsoLopes

 

Guilhermina Jorge (University of Lisbon – FLUL-DLGR)

Mia Couto in French: the paths of translation

 

Deng Yuanying / Guilhermina Jorge / Jin Xinyi (University of Lisbon / Peking University)

Terra Sonâmbula by Mia Couto in Portuguese and Chinese: Neologism Analysis

 

11:00 am / 11:30 am

coffee break

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11:30 am / 1:00 pm

ROUND TABLE: Translation and Institutions moderation: Marco Bucaioni

guest: Bruno Duarte Eiras – DGLAB (Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries)

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13:00/15:00

lunch

 

15:00/16:00

Communications: MESA II Moderation: Denis Silva

 

Georgia Nasseh (University of Oxford)

‘Coalitions on different scales’: Translating the Angola Liberation Movement into Scandinavia

 

Joana Filipa Passos (University of Minho – CEHUM)

Translation as a basis for internationalization and regional literary affinities

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4:00 p.m./4:30 p.m.

coffee break

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16:30/18:00

ROUND TABLE: Translating the Africa that writes in Portuguese

moderation: Marisa Mourinha

guests: Vincenzo Barca, Michael Kegler, Daniel Hahn

 

may 12

10:00 am / 11:00 am

Communications: MESA III Moderation: Inocência Mata

 

Ana Sofia Lopes (University of Lisbon – CLEPUL-FLUL / PIUDHist)

Film adaptation as translation: three Angolan cases

 

Denis Silva (University of Lisbon – CLEPUL-FLUL)

Circulation of African Literature in Portuguese in Brazil: a timeline

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11:00 am / 11:30 am

coffee break

 

11:30 am / 12:30 pm

Communications: MESA IV Moderation: Ana MafaldaLeite

 

Elena Brugioni (State University of Campinas)

African novel and (semi-)periphery

 

Hélder Lopes (University of Lisbon – CEC-FLUL)

Circulation and Literary Translation in African Liberation Movements: the Case of

Hungry (1962), by Luís Romano

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12:30/15:00

lunch

 

15:00/16:00

Communications: MESA IV Moderation: Marta PachecoPinto

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Marisa Mourinha (University of Lisbon – CLEPUL-FLUL)

Paths of the international circulation of Portuguese-speaking African literature

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Marco Bucaioni (University of Lisbon – CLEPUL-FLUL)

Postcolonial reparation or imperial nostalgia? The inclusion of non-Portuguese authors by Portugal in its translation support programs

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4:00 p.m./4:30 p.m.

coffee break

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16:30/18:00

CLOSING CONFERENCE

Moderation: Ana Paula Tavares

Guest: Gisèle Sapiro (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

On the social conditions of the transcultural circulation of literary forms and models