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Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomJoin award-winning visiting poet, translator and editor Jeffrey Yang for an engaging collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. In groups we will co-translate a poem by Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770 CE), teasing out different wordings and phrasings for the translation and playing with language. Using a ‘crib’, or word-for-word […]
Manchester Translation Series: In Other Words
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomIn an increasingly interconnected literary landscape, translation is not just a feature but a defining force in contemporary publishing. In this panel, poet and translator Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin (ArabLit Quarterly, Poetry Translation Centre) and Sana Goyal (Wasafiri) on the intricate, dynamic editorial practices that shape contemporary literary magazines. How […]
Manchester Translation Series: Translating the Contextual
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomPoet-translators A. E. Stallings and Jeffrey Yang have worked across diverse sets of text – from ancient didactics and illustrated epics to Modern Greek activists in Stallings’ work, to translations of Tang-Song Dynasty poets and contemporary Chinese and Uyghur activists in Yang’s work, and much more. Beyond the textual and semantic, how do they translate […]
Manchester Translation Series: Trends in Translation
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomJoin editors Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Granta Books), Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories) and Jeffrey Yang (New Directions, New York Review of Books) for a lively conversation on the current UK and US markets for literature in translation, chaired by Brian Sneeden (World Poetry Books). Rachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland (2019) and God […]
Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomJoin Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for an interactive collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. A.E. Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry. Her poetry collections include Like (2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Olives (2012), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax (2006); […]
Manchester Translation Series: Who’s Laughing Now?
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomTranslating humour across cultures can be a challenge. Often a literal translation of a joke from one language to another will fall flat. But is there creative potential to be found in failed translations of humour? Join Manchester City Poet Charlotte Shevchenko Knight for a workshop which explores the poetic possibilities of jokes lost in […]
Third Annual Manchester Translation Series Reading
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomWe’re delighted to welcome Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings and award-winning poet-translator Jeffrey Yang to Manchester Poetry Library for the third annual Manchester Translation Series. The event will include a poetry reading, along with a discussion on topics related to translation and the roles of literature in our current geopolitical moment. A.E. Stallings […]
Using thematic and structural approaches to narrative analysis
Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this online masterclass. Methods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. Narrative analytical methodologies provide social researchers with mechanisms and frameworks to explore people’s lived experiences. They allow researchers to gain understanding of how people experience social and material contexts from […]
PGR/ECR L19C Seminar Series 2024-25
PGR / ECR L19C Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series 2024-2527 March 2025 - online (free) Teaching the Long 19th Century Novel through Reader-Response Theory The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Group is organised by volunteer PGRs and ECRs at Manchester Metropolitan University. It aims to foster inter-institutional and multi-faculty networking and offers platforms for its […]
Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar
Geoffrey Manton Building 4 Rosamond Street West, Manchester, United KingdomThis even will take place in Geoffrey Mantion G.09A and online. This afternoon research seminar provides an opportunity to trace the transnational dimensions of print culture in the long nineteenth century. It explores the uneven dynamics of both popular and personal print networks, as conveyed across borders in a range of modes, forms, and media. […]
Research for human users
Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this online masterclass. Methods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. Conducting research with human stakeholders gives the opportunity for outcomes with impact and societal benefit. This session looks at how to include this in the planning process, methodologies, and through […]