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 […]
Maris Saagpakk
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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 […]
The collective volume “Translation Under Communism” is the first attempt to gather research on the history of translation in the USSR and other communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The book has been edited by Christopher Rundle, Anne Lange, and Daniele Monticelli and was published by Palgrave Macmillan. The volume examines […]
We are glad to announce that the registration for the conference “History and Translation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” is now open. The conference will take place from May 25 to 28. We are looking forward to welcoming more than 200 participants of different disciplines in person at Tallinn University. The conference is […]
Maris Saagpakk and Marianne Laura Saar’s article „Widerspiegelung der Mehrsprachigkeit des historischen Baltikums in den ‚Briefen eines baltischen Idealisten an seine Mutter‘ von Georg Julius von Schultz und ihre Übermittlung in der Übersetzung ins Estnische“ is a quantitative study of heteroglossic voices in the letters of Baltic German doctor, philologist […]
The 14th conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature in November 2021 focuses on “The Factor of Lyrical Poetry in the Formation of Literary Cultures”. As members of the “Translation in History” project, Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov and Miriam Rossi have put together a translation panel with the aim of bringing together papers that explore […]
On the annual conference “Kotzebue-Gespräche” (October 8.-9., 2021) Maris Saagpakk presented an overview of reception patterns of Kotzebue in some Eastern European countries. A common dynamic of a 30-year reception curve, starting from delight and ending with strong criticism could be traced in each country surveyed. Furthermore, a self-reflection by […]
Miriam Rossi explores the development of the tamizdat and samizdat in the Soviet Union, focusing on these literary realms’ links to “the West”. She suggests that despite the intensely normative and oppressive environment that writers existed within, they continued to find ways and spaces to avoid Soviet censorship and to […]
Ass. Prof. Anne Lange’s talk was titled “On the Complementarity of Translation and Cultural Studies” and it focused on presenting the forthcoming Routledge “Handbook on the History of Translation Studies” edited by Lange, Daniele Monticelli and Christopher Rundle. The handbook targets an interdisciplinary audience and offers both the review of […]
Anne Lange’s article was published in the volume “The Situatedness of Translation Studies. Temporal and Geographical Dynamics of Theorization” (2021), edited by Luc van Doorslaer and Ton Naaijkens. The article focuses on Peeter Torop’s concept of total translation as it stems out of the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school of thought and […]
Daniele Monticelli’s article “Translating the Soviet Thaw in the Estonian Context: Entangled Perspectives on the Loomingu Raamatukogu Book Series” was published in the Journal of Baltic Studies 51/3, Entangled Cultures in the Baltic Region special issue (2020). This article develops a multi-layered analysis of the Estonian Loomingu Raamatukogu book series within the context of the Soviet Thaw. […]
On the 11th of January Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov defended her PhD thesis “Mapping the Invisible: The Elaboration of a Creative Approach to Translating Poetry” at Tallinn University. The supervisors were Tallinn University’s Associate Professor Anne Lange and Professor Daniele Monticelli. The reviewers were Tartu University’s Associate Professor Maria-Kristiina Lotman and University […]