At the conference “Japan” in Communist Europe organized by the University of Tokyo, Alari Allik gave a presentation on the reception of Kōbō Abe in the Soviet Union and Estonia. Using Abe’s work Inter Ice Age 4 as an example, Allik demonstrated how centrally directed translation activity operated during the […]
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Daniele Monticelli, Maris Saagpakk and Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov attended and were members of the scientific committee for the 16th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature “World Poetry Today: Production, Translation, Reception”, which took place in Tartu on 1-4 October. The conference brought together over 80 poetry scholars from […]
Maris Saagpakk presented the history of Estonian translation in the Baltic Literatures panel at a conference held in Braunschweig, Germany. Her presentation, titled “Übersetzung als Identitätsprojekt. Diskussionen zu Übersetzungen aus dem Deutschen im 19. Jahrhundert”, explored the background of translation into Estonian and the motivations of various translators.
Maris Saagpakk introduced 19th-century leisure literature translated into Estonian. The sentimental tales of suffering and the robber adventures translated from German played an important role in the development of Estonians’ habit of reading for pleasure. The title of the presentation was: „Fromme Frauen, Räuber und Robinsonaden. Wellen der übersetzten Trivialliteratur […]
In October and November, Maris Saagpakk has presented her recent research on the literary journal „Meelejahutaja“ at two events in Germany. In October, Saagpakk participated in the conference „Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und den Baltischen Ländern 1850–1950. Medien – Institutionen – Akteure“, organized by the academic library of Eutin. In November, […]
Maris Saagpakk participated at the HTN conference History – Translation – Politics held 11.-14.09.2024 in Graz. The title of her presentation was “Conflicting ideas on translation in Estonia in the mid-19th century and the case of Schiller”.
Marin Jänes presented her research on translation of multilingual elements in the 19th century humoristic volume „Baltische Skizzen“ by Georg Julius von Schultz al Dr. Bertram. The Estonian translation of the book offers an example of a delicate and mindful handling of multilingualism in historical fiction. Saagpakk’s talk focused on […]
Maris Saagpakk presented a paper at the conference “Cultures of Travel: Historical Travel Practices and Digital Humanities”held in Tallinn University 29.-30.08.2024. The title of the presentation was “Datenbank der literarischen Übersetzungen ins Estnische und „reisende Bücher“. Information about the conference is available here: https://www.tlu.ee/en/ht/events/international-conference-cultures-travel-historical-travel-practices-and-digital
Maris Saagpakk presented a paper “Die Krim-Krise in den Zeitungsberichtender frühen estnischen Publizistik des 19. Jahrhunderts” Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik” at a conference “Krisen als Impulse für die Germanistik? Überlegungen, Untersuchungen, Reflexionen” held in 29.06.2024.
Marin Jänes’ presentation concentrated on multilingualism in Baltic-German literature. The presentation „Repräsentation der gesellschaftlichen Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutschbaltischen Literatur und ihrer estnischen Übersetzung“ dealt with Georg Julius von Schulz’ (1808-1875) letters and it’s translation into Estonian by Pille Toompere. Maris Saagpakk talked about the early translations of Schiller into Estonian […]
Maris Saagpakk presented a paper “Frühe Übersetzungen fiktionaler Literatur ins Estnische. Kulturhistorische Dynamiken und Beispiele anhand der Übersetzungen von Goethe und Schiller”at the event “Nordisch-Baltisches GermanistikTreffen” in Vilnius 13.06.2024.
To archive, share, and promote the multiplicity of topics and approaches of History and Translation Network conference panel chairs and, in some cases, panelists wrote short texts about their panels. These now form a conference mosaic as tiles. As is often the case with a mosaic, the tiles vary in size […]
Daniele Monticelli gave a keynote speech during the conference “Nothing Happened: Translation Studies before James Holmes” held in UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (9–10 November). Here is the abstract of the speech: On the advantages of peripheries: Juri Lotman and translation studies In recent years we have […]
From 13-15 September Ghent University in Belgium hosted a conference dedicated to the research of Translations in Periodicals. In his paper “Eluding censorship through periodicals and translations: Soviet Estonia and Loomingu Raamatukogu,” Daniele Monticelli presented an interesting case of Soviet Estonian translation history. Maris Saagpakk talked about a literary periodical from […]
The focus of the conference organized by the Finnish Literature Society and the University of Turku was on interdisciplinary approaches to translated and multilingual texts. Monticelli presented his archive reseach on the Estonian translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Weaving the threads: The manuscript of the Estonian translation of Solzhenitsyn’s “One day […]
Daniele Monticelli participated in a panel discussion with Anthony Pym, Oleksandr Kalnychenko, Martin Djovčoš during a conference “Translation, Interpreting & Culture 2023: Virality and Isolation in the Era of Deepening Divides” held in Bratislava 20 – 22 September 2023. The panel “Breaking out of Isolation” addressed the issues of (new) […]
Eurasian Translation Congress 2 (27-29 September) focused on the practice of mediated or indirect translation. Translation scholars have traditionally paid little attention to the concept of mediated or indirect translation regarding it as a poor quality and second-rate form of translation. The aim of the conference was to provide a […]
At the conference „Jenseits der Deiche. Konflikte der Abgrenzung“, organized by the University of Utrecht and Gesellschaft für Internationale Germanistik, Marin Jänes presented her research on multilingualism in Baltic German literature. Edzard Schaper’s novel „Der Henker“ (1940) offers a display of various ways of lexical and non-lexical multilingualism. The presentation […]
At the conference “Jenseits der Deiche. Konflikte der Abgrenzung” Maris Saagpakk presented her research on 19th century fictional translations into Estonian. The presentation gave an overview of the general translation trends into Estonian in the second half of the 19th century, and discussed examples of translatory works by Estonian translators […]
Tallinn University was one of the main organizers of History of Translation Networks (HTN) online conference “History and Translation: Situated practices in the global context”. Over the two days (11-12 May, 2023) 16 papers and a plenary lecture by Kayoko Takeda (Rikkyo University) were presented. HTN was launched in June […]
On 27th April Prof. Daniele Monticelli presented two lectures at the University of Bologna. First one The «Sovietization» of post-war Eastern Europe was aimed at students and the second one Translation as a source of historical knowledge The Soviet ‘Thaw’ and Loomingu Raamatukogu was aimed at researchers and staff of […]
Tallinn University School of Humanities new doctor Miriam Rossi studied the translation and publishing of foreign poems in the former USSR countries. The focus of Miriam Rossi’s thesis was the phenomenon of poetry translation in the clandestine circulation of texts known as samizdat, that existed in many countries of the […]
Daniele Monticelli was invited to held a lecture to the researchers, teachers and graduate students of the Department of Translation Studies of Matej Bel University. The lecture took place on the 15th of November. After the end of the Second World War, the institutions, societies and cultures of the Baltic […]
At the conference Deutscher Germanistentag in Paderborn 25.-28. September 2022 Jänes and Saagpakk presented a paper on multilingualism in Baltic-German literature. The aim of the panel was to bring together scholars from Eastern-European countries to compare the use of multilingualism in the texts of German diasporas in their countries. Multilingualism […]
At the XII. “Symposium of Written Culture in the Baltics” in Tartu, September 17, Saagpakk presented the preliminary results of the study of translations into Estonian in the second half of the 19th century. Her paper compared bibliographies available about the given period and offered some statistical data. In the […]
From 27 June to 8 July 2022 Anne Lange participated in the Translation Research Summer School on context and contextualisation conducted by the Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at Shanghai International Studies University. The school offered two paths of participation, one for doctoral students and another for more experienced […]
Möldre presented a paper titled “Fiction in Estonian Translation in the Book Production of Exile Publishers” at the conference “Translation in Exile: Motives, Effects and Functions. Third annual Exil:Trans Conference” in Vienna, July 7-9. In her paper, Möldre first gave an overview of Estonian exile movements in the 20th century. […]
The international conference History and Translation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives brings 150 scholars to Tallinn University to discuss the pivotal role of acts of translation and interpretation in the shaping of history. The inaugural conference of the recently founded History and Translation Network takes place at Tallinn University from the 25th to […]
At the conference of Baltic and Scandinavian German Scholars Jänes and Saagpakk discussed the issues of language contact as represented in Baltic German anecdotes in their paper „Mehrsprachigkeit in deutschbaltischen Anekdoten‟. The collection of anecdotes „Fanfaronaden‟ analyzed in the paper was published in 1928. The anecdotes about three local languages […]