On the Edge of Creation and Translation: Schedule

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