From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #12 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Thursday, January 22 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 012 anenews three-year colloquium on "Translation in Context." anenews Edmond Jacob anenews Fellowships - The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 09:42:55 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews three-year colloquium on "Translation in Context." Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. {not that participants in the colloquiummust be (or become) members of the APA] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx **NOTE EXTENSION OF DEADLINE** This is a final call for papers for the three-year colloquium on "Translation in Context." Due to the delay in the publication of the original Call for Papers in the October APA Newsletter, abstracts will be accepted until February 10, 1998, not February 1, as originally stated. (Apologies and thanks to those who have already sent in abstracts!) TRANSLATION IN CONTEXT Organizers: Elizabeth Vandiver, Northwestern University Richard Armstrong, University of Houston This colloquium was suggested by the interest shown in last year's panel "Choosing a Translation: What Is At Stake?" The three-year format will allow continued discussion in greater depth than was possible in the 1996 panel. Although as a profession we deal with translation on a daily basis in publications and in the classroom, we rarely have the opportunity to discuss the topic formally. We hope to change that with this extended exploration of literary translation. The colloquium will focus on literary translation in its historical and cultural specificity. Although classicists are the most qualified to judge the accuracy of translations from classical texts, we rarely address the other side of the question: how does a translation occur as an event in literary history in its own right? This basic question can be approached through a number of subsidiary questions. How is a new translation affected by its audience’s horizon of expectation, and how does it change or challenge that horizon? What kind of self-justifying moves and assumptions about the nature of language are evident in the translator’s introductory remarks, footnotes, and final translations? What cultural, sociologicalor political conditions make a translation possible or necessary? As these sample questions demonstrate, the study of translation is necessarily interdisciplinary, and tests our cultural competence in the languages of translation, not just our ability to evaluate a translation vis-à-vis an original classical text. Last year's panel suggested that discussions centered on some overarching "theory of translation" are often too vague to be useful. The colloquium's "local study" approach provides a useful alternative by attempting to evaluate translations as artifacts of their own cultural context. Each year will concentrate on a specific poetic genre, and papers should focus on translations into any language of either Greek or Roman source texts from that genre. In 1998, the genre under consideration will be epic, in 1999, lyric and elegy, in 2000, drama. Preference will be given to papers that highlight the translational practices of a given time and place. For 1998, we are soliciting papers on translations of epic into any language from any epoch. Our conception of epic is broad enough to include poets such as Lucretius, Apollonius and Aratus, as well as Homer and Vergil. Where possible, papers should discuss the claims and motivations of the translator, as these often expose certain telling presuppositions about language or literary tradition. Submit abstracts to Elizabeth Vandiver, Department of Classics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2200. Abstracts will be judged anonymously by three referees. For additional information, contact either Elizabeth Vandiver at e-vandiver@nwu.edu, or Richard Armstrong at richarda@bayou.uh.edu. The colloquium has its own website, at http://www.hfac.uh.edu/transcontext, to help maintain continuity over its three years of development. ************************************************************************* * * * Elizabeth Vandiver e-vandiver@nwu.edu * * Visiting Assistant Professor * * Department of Classics phone: (847) 491-7104 * * Northwestern University fax: (847) 491-7598 * * 1859 Sheridan Road * * Evanston, IL 60208-2200 * * * * http://www2.mmlc.nwu.edu/classics/faculty/vandiver/vandiver.html * * * ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 09:45:13 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Edmond Jacob Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, via Jim Lindenberger [and with the permission of both]. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Papa" Edmond Jacob died Saturday, peacefully in his sleep, in his 89th year. He remained lucid and a fine figure to the last; apparently having had an attack of some sort Easter weekend, he told a friend of mine, his pastor, "l'ange de la mort m'a touche aujourd'hui, mais ce weekend de Paques, la vie etait trop forte". We'll be having the funeral on Thursday. Almost the last of my professors here, the last from my doctoral studies, and almost the last of that great collection that was here in the '60's (Mehl, Wendel, Jacob, Benoit, Peter, Trocme) Strangely - though by then his status here was purely honorary, as he held the chair in Basel - Oscar Cullmann is still living, a friend visited with him a few weeks ago. [He is] ...a bit forgetful at moments, but on the whole quite remarkable still. Papa Jacob kept writing until the end; he completed and sent off a 70 p manuscript ten days ago, an overview of HT Theology. His funeral arrangements are those he made for himself. In the old manner, he will first be buried, in St.Gall cemetery here, at 14h30 Thursday, then we shall return to the Chapel of the Diaconat (the Protestant deaconess order, where he lived these past few years, and to which he gave support and care all the years of his ministry and teaching, where we will have a service of commemoration; simple, at his request, avoiding lengthy eulogies. Gerald Hobbs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:13:08 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Fellowships - The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: leinwand@sas.upenn.edu (Nancy Leinwand) MELLON RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN SCHOLARS IN TURKEY 1998-1999 Fellowship Program: The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to invite applications for Mellon Research Fellowships in Turkey for 1998-1999. ARIT is offering three fellowships to Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak scholars holding the PhD or its equivalent, who are engaged in advanced research in any field of the social sciences or the humanities involving Turkey. Fellowship competition is now open to scholars from Bulgaria and Rumania. The fellowships are for two to three months for research to be carried out in Turkey. Institutes: ARIT maintains two research institutes in Turkey. ARIT-Istanbul has a library focused on Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern studies of Turkey. ARIT- Ankara concentrates on art, archaeology, and ancient history in its library. Both institutes offer residential facilities (with advance reservation) and provide general assistance and introduction to colleagues, institutions, and authorities in Turkey. Purpose and Eligibility: Funds for the fellowships have been provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Council of American Overseas Research Centers to administer for the purpose of bringing East-Central European scholars of the humanities into a broader research community. Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Bulgarian, and Rumanian scholars who are permanent residents of one of the countries included are eligible to apply. Applicants may not have held a prior fellowship under this program. Preference will be given to scholars in the early stages of their careers. Fellows are expected to devote full time to their projects and to participate in the activities of the Institute. Research Permission: Turkish law requires all foreign scholars, prior to entering the country, to obtain formal permission for any research to be carried out. ARIT Mellon fellows are personally responsible for obtaining their own research permission. Forms and procedures may be obtained through the Turkish diplomatic office within each country included in the competition. Since replies for permission may take six months or more, applicants are urged learn the procedures involved in gaining permission as early as possible. Applicants may contact the ARIT office for advice about research permission. Stipend: The program offers a stipend up to $10,500 to cover the costs of conducting the scholar's research project for two to three months, including travel, living expenses, work-related costs. Application: Applications should consist of 1) a brief project statement (3-5 pages) outlining the project and its significance; 2) a current curriculum vitae; and 3) two letters of reference from scholars in the relevant field including comment on the value and feasibility of the project (may be sent separately). Applications and supporting letters must be submitted to ARIT by March 5th, 1998, to the American Research Institute in Turkey, c/o University of Pennsylvania Museum, 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia PA 19104-6324, telephone (215) 898-3474, fax (215) 898-0657, email: leinwand@sas.upenn.edu Please contact the ARIT office in Philadephia for further information concerning application procedures. ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1998 #12 ******************************* Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html