Acknowledgements The symposium acknowledges the ďŹ nancial support of the following Hofstra University departments:
O ce of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic A airs Department of Comparative Literatures and Languages Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Department of English Hofstra University Honors College Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Ar st: Jorge Valdivia Carrasco
Symposium Director: Miguel Angel Zapata Professor of Spanish Hofstra University
9 a.m.
Registra on and Co ee
3:30 4:30 p.m.
Session IV: A Dialogue: Sharing the Experience of Transla on: Poetry & Fic on
9:15 a.m.
9:30 11:00 a.m.
Welcome
Anthony Seidman (Los Angeles); Jotamario Arbeláez (Colombia);
J. Stephen Russell, Director MFA Program Miguel Angel Zapata, Professor of Spanish Hofstra University
Elizabeth Quila (Ecuador); Federico Díaz Granados (Colombia); Francoise Roy (Canada Mexico) Moderator:
Natalia Chamorro, Hofstra University
4:30 5:30 p.m.
Session V: Bilingual Poetry Reading
Session I: The Challenge and Joy of Transla ng Poetry and Fic on Patricia Welch (Hofstra University), The Challenge of Translating Poetry and Prose from Japanese into English
Federico Díaz Granados (Colombia); Elizabeth Quila (Ecuador);
Gregory Pell (Hofstra University), Rediscovering America in an Italian Novel
Laren McClung (New York University); Jeanne e Clariond (Mexico);
Françoise Roy (Quebec Mexico), Between Faithfulness and Beauty: The Challenge of Translating Poetry
Xavier Oquendo Troncoso (Ecuador)
Moderator:
Alfonso Garcia Osuna, Hofstra University
11:10 a.m. 12:40 p.m.
Session II: Translating Each Other: From Literature to Other Artistic Media
Moderator:
Natalia Chamorro, Hofstra University
5:30 6:30 p.m.
Session VI: Bilingual Poetry Reading Phillis Levin (Hofstra University); Jotamario Arbeláez (Colombia);
(Film music, painting, photography, comics) Madeline Millán (F.I.T SUNY), The Language of Poetry: Translating Words and Images Simone Castaldi (Hofstra University), My Experience Translating The Corto Maltese
Madeline Millán (Puerto Rico); José Carlos Cataño (Spain) Moderator:
Miguel Ángel Zapata, Hofstra University
6:45 7:45 p.m.
Session VII: Reading and Transla ng La n American Poetry : A Dialogue
Jeannette Clariond (Mexico), Elizabeth Bishop: A World that Sinks and Inside Something Moves Moderator:
Yusef Komunyakaa, New York University and Miguel Angel Zapata, Hofstra University
Manuel Galofaro, Hofstra University A Bilingual Poetry Reading by
12:45 2:10 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:20 3:30 p.m.
Session III: A Dialogue About Literary Credibility: Revising a Translated Text
Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry New York University Joseph G. Astman Dis nguished Conference Scholar
Anthony Seidman (Los Angeles); Francoise Roy (Quebec Mexico); Xavier Oquendo Troncoso (Ecuador); Federico Díaz Granados (Colombia); Jeanne e L. Clariond (Mexico) Moderator:
Warren Bra er, Hofstra University
Moderator:
Vicente Lledo Guillem, Hofstra University
7:30 p.m.
Dinner