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PhD bursaries at Leicester

The School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester is making available two bursaries for candidates interested in pursuing PhD research in the area of Translation Studies.

Bursary 1:

Home/EU students: Exemption from fees; £10,000 living cost allowance.
Overseas students: Fee reduction to the value of the H/EU rate; £10,000 living cost allowance.

Bursary 2:

Home/EU students: Exemption from fees; £5,000 living cost allowance.
Overseas students: Fee reduction to the value of the H/EU rate; £5,000 living cost allowance.

Each bursary is for 3 years and candidates will be expected to undertake teaching for up to 6 hours (bursary 1) or up to 4 hours (bursary 2) each week from the beginning of their second year of study.

Applications should include the applicants full CV, the names of two academic referees who have agreed to support the application, and a research proposal which should:

Define a series of research questions, issues or problems to be addressed
Specify the research context in which these research questions, issues and problems arise, and explain why it is important to address them:

What other research has been or is being undertaken in the area, and what will be the applicantants particular contribution to the enhancement of knowledge and understanding.

Describe the research methods to be used to address the research questions, issues or problems, explaining the rationale for choosing those methods: Why are these the most appropriate methods for addressing these questions, problems or issues?


Applications should be sent by electronic mail to Professor Sharon Wood (slw26@leicester. ac.uk) and Professor Kirsten Malmkjær (kirsten@newroad. demon.co. uk) by Friday 4 June.

Interviews will be held on Friday 2 July in Leicester.

Israel barra entrada do linguista americano Noam Chomsky na Cisjordânia

O linguista americano Noam Chomsky, 81, foi barrado na entrada da Cisjordânia neste domingo por oficiais israelenses de imigração. O intelectual é um grande crítico das políticas israelenses com relação aos palestinos.


Chomsky disse à Reuters por telefone, da capital da Jordânia, Amã, que viajou até a ponte Allenby, cruzando o rio Jordão, onde foi parado por oficiais da imigração israelense que não permitiram sua passagem.

Noam Chomsky, americano judeu e grande crítico das políticas israelenses com relação aos palestinos, foi barrado em Israel

"Eles aparentemente não gostaram do fato de eu estar indo dar uma palestra em uma universidade palestina, não em Israel", disse Chomsky, que é judeu.

O anfitrião palestino de Chomsky, o legislador Mustafa al Barghouti disse que o intelectual iria dar uma palestra na Universidade de Birzeit e no Instituto para Estudos Palestinos, em Ramallah, na Cisjordânia.

Uma porta-voz do Ministério do Interior israelense disse que os oficiais da imigração na fronteira entenderam errado as intenções de Chomsky, achando que ele também visitaria Israel. Os oficiais estavam tentando conseguir liberação para a entrada do americano junto a militares israelenses, que controla o acesso à Cisjordânia.

"Estamos tentando contatar os militares para esclarecer tudo e, se eles não tiverem nenhuma objeção, não vemos nenhuma razão para que ele não possa entrar", disse Sabine Hadad.

Chomsky disse estar fazendo palestras pela região e que sua agenda estava tão cheia que não poderia tentar novamente a entrada na Cisjordânia.

Ele disse ter visitado Israel e a Cisjordânia pela última vez em 1997, quando fez palestra na Universidade de Ben-Gurion e também em Birzeit.


Folha Online

Ciclo de Palestras sobre Tradução

CITRAT e Departamento de Letras Modernas, FFLCH, USP.


Edwin Gentzler, Univ. Massachusetts (Amherst)

The Micro-Turn in Translation Studies: Translation within the United States

Translation studies in the United States is quite a new discipline: the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA) has been in existence for less than ten years; out of over 2500 universities, there are only 10 MA and two PhD programs; no history of translation in the United States has been written. Yet in the United States, over 150 languages are spoken, and one in five children are born into a non- or limited-English speaking family. Translation takes place on a daily basis in the schools, hospitals, courts, and social service agencies. The United States has been analyzed often in terms of race, class, and gender, but seldom in terms of translation or language minorities. This looks at how translation functions in smaller communities in the United States--cities, communities, prisons, reservations, and individual families--operating more often than not in a hidden, counter-culture fashion at micro-levels of culture.

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Justiça rejeita acusação de editora contra blogueira pela 2ª vez

O caso da blogueira e tradutora Denise Bottman, que atiçou uma polêmica sobre liberdade de expressão na internet, ganhou mais um capítulo nesta semana, a partir da rejeição de um recurso em segunda instância, na terça-feira (30).

Dessa vez, contudo, trata-se de Martin Claret --proprietário da editora homônima, que acusou a blogueira de calúnia e difamação. Em primeira instância, o juiz rejeitou o processo por falta de provas.

Tradutora Denise Bottman, que teve acusação por calúnia e difamação, feita por dono da Martin Claret, rejeitada pela Justiça

Segundo Bottman, a decisão favorável de ontem --cuja análise coube a uma junta recursal, ou seja, vários juízes decidindo a respeito do assunto-- ocorreu por unanimidade.

"Eu acho que as duas partes se comportaram de acordo com procedimentos de lei, representados por advogados. Me sinto honrada de fazer parte de um país com procedimentos jurídicos plenamente operacionais", disse.

Procurada pela Folha Online, a editora Matin Claret informou que seu proprietário ainda não foi notificado oficialmente, e que vai esperar a comunicação oficial para tomar a decisão.

"Acho que é uma boa vitória da liberdade de expressão consciente, ou seja, daqueles que se identificam e têm responsabilidade pelo conteúdo publicado", analisa Marcel Leonardi, especialista em direito na internet da Faculdade Getúlio Vargas.

MARINA LANG


da Folha Online


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Omar Pound: poet and translator

Omar Pound was a gifted poet and an internationally recognised translator of Persian and Arabic poetry. To these two crafts he brought verbal dexterity, historical sense and sensibility, a keen eye for cultural detail, and an impish play of song. A teacher for many years, Pound turned, relatively late in life, to editing the letters of his father, the American poet and translator Ezra Pound, and produced three annotated volumes of Pound’s correspondence.


As a translator, Omar Pound did not follow the path blazed by Ezra. The elder Pound had made his mark through sometimes controversial “englishings” of Latin, medieval Italian and Provençal poets, and vivid renderings of Chinese poetry and Japanese Noh plays. Omar, by contrast, chose two wholly different languages and worlds: Arabic poetry from AD500 to 1200, and Persian poetry from AD850 to 1900. In 1970 he published his translations as Arabic and Persian Poems, with a preface by the poet Basil Bunting. In 1986 he reissued an enlarged edition of this volume. He once observed that his aim as a translator was “a readable poem and a rediscovery”.

Pound’s most celebrated translation is Gorby and the Rats (first published in 1972), a buoyant rendering of the 14th-century Persian satirical fable Mùsh-o-gurbeh by Obeyd-i-Zàkànì. A witty commentary on the Mongol occupation of Iran in the 13th and 14th centuries, Mùsh-o-gurbeh has been familiar to generations of Iranian children. Omar tested the whimsical felicities of his translation by reading scraps-in-progress to his young daughters. Later Gorby and the Rats, which has been compared with Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, became a centrepiece of Pound’s many public readings. These readings brought out the essential songlike qualities of his work and enabled him — a lifelong devotee of music and choral singing — to revel in the rhythmic and sonic delights of the spoken word. Basil Bunting, who believed that poetry should be read aloud, was an important influence on Pound, and introduced him to the Scottish poet Gael Turnbull, with whom Pound developed a close friendship and collaboration.

Omar Shakespear Pound’s journey to translation and poetry-writing began in childhood. Born in 1926 in Paris, he grew up in England and attended Charterhouse School, Surrey, an experience he recalled with the acerbity of George Orwell in his essay Such, Such Were the Joys. As war approached in the late 1930s, Pound came to detest the reflexive patriotism of school life, and his pacifist stance was all the more unpopular when it was learnt that Ezra Pound was broadcasting diatribes against England over Mussolini’s Radio Rome — activities that later earned Ezra an indictment for treason against the United States. During the Second World War Omar Pound survived bombing during the Blitz in London and in 1945 joined the US Army, serving in France and Germany before being demobilised in the United States.

He enrolled at Hamilton College in upstate New York with the class of 1951, but before completing his studies he spent time in France, England and Iran. He studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at the University of Tehran, returning to the US by way of Pakistan, India and Japan. Graduating from Hamilton in 1954, he went on to earn his MA at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal. In 1955 he was married to Elizabeth Parkin of Montreal. He taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston for five years before becoming director of the American School of Tangier in Morocco in 1962. With their two daughters, the Pounds moved to Dorset in 1965 and then settled in Cambridge, where Pound taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. In 1980 they moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where Pound focused on writing and editing as well as teaching English composition at Princeton University.

Pound’s own poetry was published in various volumes, including The Dying Sorcerer (1985), Pissle and the Holy Grail (1987), Poems Inside and Out (1999), and Watching the Worlds Go By (2001), and many small magazines. Strongly influenced by the translator’s craft, his poetry is multicultural, often political, and lyrical, with an ironic, mystical streak that borrows from Persian poetry. His love of storytelling combines frequently with a fascination with history, moving easily from the Indian Rebellion (Siege Lucknow 1857) to a 10th-century Nigerian kingdom (Kano), to a medieval miracle tale (Saint Erkenwald). Pound did not fear lyricism, and his poems are marked by well-shaped rhythms and a controlled use of assonance and off-rhymes. His love of the English countryside produced crisply recollected natural scenes, as in The Dying Expatriate in which the poem’s speaker pleads:

Tell me of silver birch in dusk’s long alert, pink chestnut, foxgloves and yarrow, bells and starlings across an English lawn and sparrows stealing from the thatch.

Pound co-edited three volumes of Ezra’s letters. Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters, 1909-1914 (1984) provides a detailed account of Ezra’s early career in London and his relationship with the artist Dorothy Shakespear — Omar’s mother — whom Ezra was married to in 1914. Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship, 1910-1912 (1988) tells the story of Ezra’s friendship with Cravens, an expatriate American musician in Paris who became the poet’s first patron. Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946 (1999) begins with Ezra’s arrest on treason charges after the collapse of Fascist Italy and follows him to his confinement in a mental institution in Washington. During this period Ezra wrote his celebrated Pisan Cantos. Omar also co-wrote a bibliography of the writer and artist Percy Wyndham Lewis — who with Ezra founded Blast!, the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement — and was a founding trustee of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. For his creative and scholarly achievements Pound received an honorary doctorate from Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

Pound is survived by his wife Elizabeth and their two daughters.

Omar Pound, poet and translator, was born on September 10, 1926. He died on March 2, 2010, aged 83

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Plágio de traduções

Há muito os tradutores vêm alertando para o relançamento de livros traduzidos com traduções antigas sem dar o devido crédito (e remuneração) aos tradutores que a realizaram. 

Denise Bottmann fez um trabalho meticuloso de comparação e acusou uma editora em seu blog e por isso está sendo processada. Visite seu blog e assine o manifesto:

http://naogostodeplagio.blogspot.com/