The Handbook represents History of Translation as a global field, avoiding focusing only on the history of its development in Western Europe and including a range of historical contexts, from the earliest discourses in Assyria, Egypt, Israel, China, India, and Greece, to the early 20th century when Translation Studies emerged […]
Maris Saagpakk
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In 2023 and 2024, Daniele Monticelli and Kristiina Rebane published two articles that focus on Italian–Estonian literary contacts. Monticelli, Daniele; Rebane, Kristiina (2023). ‘Progressista’, ‘fantastico’ e/o ‘postmoderno’? I Calvini estoni dal Dopoguerra al nuovo Millennio. Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 38 (2), 1−21. DOI. Monticelli, Daniele; Rebane, Kristiina (2024). […]
Together with Ivana Hostová, Oleksandr Kalnychenko, and Martin Djovcoš, Daniele Monticelli published the article “Addressing Power Imbalances in Research and Translation Studies.” DOI
In the recent publication by Tartu University Press, Dialogues with Peeter Torop. Festschrift in Honour of Peeter Torop’s 75th Birthday, Daniele Monticelli contributed the article “Translation as Autocommunication: A Peeter Torop–Inspired Analysis of the Estonian Translation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” The volume is edited by […]
The chapter by Monticelli in The Routlegde Handbook of Translation and Censorship (2025) tells the history of translation and censorship in the territory of modern Estonia from the first half of the 16th century to the end of the Soviet era in 1991, when censorship was finally abolished. The chapter […]
At the conference «КРЕАТИВНІ ІНДУСТРІЇ: СУЧАСНІ ТРЕНДИ» (“Creative Industries: Contemporary Trends”), Verschik shared her scholarly and practical expertise on translating Ukrainian poetry into Estonian. The conference was organized by the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.
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 […]
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 […]
The last issue of the journal Schnittstelle Germanistik (2024), which brings together East European Germanic studies, has published Saagpakk’s article Aspekte der estnischen Übersetzungskultur in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. In it, Saagpakk focuses on presenting the methods and functions of adaptation techniques prevalent in the mid-19th century. The article […]
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, […]
Together with the Institute for South- and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg the project „Translation in Estonia 1850-2010“ hosted a conference „Cultures of Travel: Historical Travel Practices and Digital Humanities“. Colleagues from Germany, France, Austria and Estonia presented and discussed ways of integrating DH into the research of travel literature. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The voluminous publication with 27 articles from the scholars in the Baltic states and Germany, but also Italy and Great Britain was published in January 2024. „Baltische Erzähl- und Lebenswelten. Kultur-, literatur-, translations- und sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte“ provides insights into contemporary research on the literary, cultural, artistic, and linguistic relations between […]
The special issue „Translation and Literary Multilingualism“, edited by Daniele Monticelli, Maris Saagpakk, and Anna Verschik, offers a wide range of views on literary multilingualism in translation. The articles examine how the translation of multilingualism silences or amplifies the voices in other languages in literary works, and what attitudes towards […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Monticelli’s and Ahi’s article „Gianni Rodari’s Adventures of Cipollino in Russian and Estonian: translation and ideology in the USSR“ focuses on the role that literature played after World War II in the ideological transformation of citizens of the communist countries of Eastern Europe into the so-called Homo Sovieticus. Along with original literature, […]
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 […]
On June 7, Anna Verschik was invited to give a paper at the e-conference „Translation as Resistance: The Politics of Intercultural Mediation in East-Central Europe“. The conference was dedicated to Ukrainian scholarship in Translation, Language and Cultural Studies. Verschik’s paper focused on the use of facebook by Ukrainian poets and […]
In the light of the current war in Ukraine the conference “Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of European Context” was launched to disseminate the results of research into translation done in Ukraine and to highlight the common European values shared by Ukraine and the EU. Translation in […]