Sumários

Romanticism and Beyond

4 Abril 2022, 12:30 • Zsófia Gombár

Sts' attention was called to the following online event:

April 5: Translation Talks: Leiden University

Pseudotranslation and reading under the bombs in Iran.

Speaker: Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam

https://translationhistory2022.blogspot.com/2022/03/april-5-pseudotranslation-and-reading.html

Presentations:

1) Friedrich Schleiermacher. “On the Different Methods of Translating” [W] by Adriana Isidoro

Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sv5UzUvdfFDv4TYH-z6HLksAQm2QZ7nq/edit#slide=id.p1

Quiz:

https://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=61c6474d-c0bc-4ec8-9a70-0256ed612bab

2) George Steiner. After Babel [W] by Catarina Canoniga Lopes and Caetana Ferro

Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1w99K7Vonc1eQ_vUWtm0c-_Wr61EBYI8f/edit#slide=id.p1

Quiz:

https://create.kahoot.it/share/george-steiner/09a02dce-4b8a-492c-b654-2a83b43385c0

The presentations were followed by class discussion.

Sense-for-Sense Translation versus Word-for-Word Translation

30 Março 2022, 12:30 • Zsófia Gombár

Sts watched a short film on sense-for-sense literary translation, created by Peter Constantine and Brian Sneeden from the University of Connecticut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wXDbA0WE

Then Sts took a short google form quiz related to the video. They could work in pairs or individually.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4e9dARZJEdjqEha2lW6Tj9U7yXZ2Sc29-h34cq_U7-qzAeg/viewform

Sts were divided into three groups.

The presentation templates were displayed on the blogspot ‘Group Work. Defining Translation’ of our educational blog Translationhistory2022:

https://translationhistory2022.blogspot.com/2022/01/task-defining-translation.html

Group 1 word-for-word translation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VTy_aCcPmBzXUKJZBKr18E38sVC4a8Zb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100075190301153964789&rtpof=true&sd=true

Group 2 sense-for-sense translation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Kxq6_jRrzL0GKWWS4j2lL1L8T5wRrixM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100075190301153964789&rtpof=true&sd=true

Group 3 adaptation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NF6YF5NA9z_ymASLqV-44HxN7tyNCf6j/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100075190301153964789&rtpof=true&sd=true

Sts were asked to give a short definition, to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the method in question, and also when to use and not to use it.

Finally, the mini-presentations were delivered by the group leaders and discussed in class.

The Age of Enlightenment

28 Março 2022, 12:30 • Zsófia Gombár

Erika Duarte and Mariana Souto: Alexander Fraser Tytler: “Essay on the Principles of Translation”

Slides:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAE8AJxN2oo/N3r_lkWD2kdwNzKsj-F-mQ/view?utm_content=DAE8AJxN2oo&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

Quiz:

https://create.kahoot.it/share/alexander-tytler/ffd85aaa-c721-4f5f-9c36-2aa7803b19c2

Ana Margarida Batista and Diogo Santiago: John Dryden on Translation

Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DrCGeqQaGg-9owkHWx_NAKwAt2sCt7ys/edit#slide=id.p1

Quiz:

https://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=18bb0756-0296-4c82-960b-01eccb2d32f3

The presentations were followed by class discussion.

The politics of literary translation. Chekhov into Irish-English

23 Março 2022, 12:30 • Zsófia Gombár

Our guest speaker: Dr Zsuzsana Csikai, assistant professor at the Department of English Literatures and Cultures, Institute of English Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary spoke about her research on translating Chekhov’s plays into Irish-English:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iuBBzn0Vm1RvH9IXmuPS4W0OzHylYMGP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100075190301153964789&rtpof=true&sd=true

The interactive presentation was followed by active class discussion.

Bio-note of Dr Csikai:

https://translationhistory2022.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-23-our-invited-speaker-zsuzsana.html