Second International IberTRANSLATIO Symposium
(University of Vienna, 9th and 10th June 2022)
Writing and Translating within/between Iberian Literatures

Institut für Romanistik (University of Vienna)
Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon)

Following up on the First International IberTRANSLATIO Symposium, which took place in Lisbon (March 2019) and the volume Iberian and Translation Studies. Literary Contact Zones, recently published by Liverpool UP (Gimeno Ugalde et al. 2021), the IberTRANSLATIO group organizes its Second International Symposium on ‘Writing and Translating within/between Iberian Literatures’.

Our purpose is to delve into the intrinsic and multi-level relationships between writing and translation within and between Iberian literatures. The boundaries between writing and translation are not always obvious or clear-cut, their blurriness extending to the textual artifact (original or translation) and to the writing, and reading, figures of author and/or translator, but also of proofreader and reviser. The Iberian Peninsula offers itself as a particularly relevant case study in view of the number of languages it concentrates and of the proximity – (linguistic), geographical, historical, and affective – that binds them together.

Among others, the symposium will address the following subjects/topics:

– writers as translators / translators as writers;
– self-translation practices (rewriting, recreation, adaptation);
– author / translator relationships (from collaboration to conflictual relations; from correspondence to social media interactions);
– retranslation and indirect translation across different media;
– publishers and their role in bridging Iberian literatures;
– transfiction illustrating intra-Iberian relations.

Esther Gimeno Ugalde (Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna / CEComp Research member)
Kathrin Sartingen (Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna)
Ângela Fernandes (CEComp, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon)
Marta Pacheco Pinto (CEComp, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon)

Website: https://ibertranslatio.univie.ac.at/

The Second IberTRANSLATIO International Symposium on ‘Writing and Translating within/between Iberian Literatures’ is an activity organized by the IberTRANSLATIO research group within the cluster DIIA and is a joint activity between clusters DIIA – Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues and MOV – Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives and Archives in Translation (LOCUS Group, Center for Comparative Studies, School of Arts and Humanities) from the University of Lisbon.