{"id":49428,"date":"2011-10-07T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=49428"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:39:13","slug":"translations-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/07\/translations-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates presents second annual Translations international poetry festival and conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/translations-polina-barskova1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/translations-polina-barskova1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"Russian poet Polina Barskova\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the first <em>Translations<\/em> poetry festival at Bates College, in  2010, organizer Claudia Aburto Guzm\u00e1n had an encounter that  seemed to crystallize the event for her.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative festival presented international poets reading their  work in the original language, with English translations prepared by  Bates faculty and students. Working with Somali poet Omar Ahmed, &#8220;it  struck me that I was involved in the true practice of communication,&#8221;  says Aburto Guzm\u00e1n, associate professor of Spanish.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/10\/07\/translations11-meetpoets\/\">Meet the poets<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Note: The time for Rafael Carpintero&#8217;s talk has been pushed back to 7 p.m. Friday<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;He and I had to communicate through layers of cultural expectations \u2014 his Somali culture and my Chilean culture, in addition to U.S. culture. I  had to be so clear with language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taking place Tuesday, Oct. 25, though Saturday, Oct. 29, this year&#8217;s  festival celebrates cross-cultural communication with readings by poets from the Americas, Europe and Japan. New to the event is an Oct. 27-29  conference, organized by Visiting Assistant Professor of German Raluca Cernahoschi, exploring the art and practice of literary translation.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact 207-786-8293 or gdumais@bates.edu.<\/p>\n<p>The festival begins at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, with a welcome,  readings and a reception in Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. Readings continue  in Chase at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 26-29.<\/p>\n<p>The conference begins with registration at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in Chase.  Conference sessions take place at 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, and at 9  a.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-29, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives,  70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>A closing reception in the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., follows the Saturday readings.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the poets and the dates when they read (all the poets read on Oct. 29):<br \/>\n<strong>Oct. 25<\/strong>: Rhea Cot\u00e9, of Brewer, Maine, and Bates faculty member Francisca L\u00f3pez, a native of Spain;<br \/>\n<strong> Oct. 26<\/strong>: Miguel Angel Zapata, of Peru, and Naomi Otsubo, a native of Japan living in Maine;<br \/>\n<strong> Oct. 27<\/strong>: Polina Barskova, a native of Russia, and Bates faculty member Robert Farnsworth;<br \/>\n<strong> Oct. 28<\/strong>: Danny Plourde, a Francophone poet from Canada, and Carmen Elisabeta Puchianu, a poet from Romania who writes in German.<\/p>\n<p>Conference presenters include Enrique Yepes, a Colombian critic and  scholar of Latin American literatures; and Rafael Carpintero of Spain, a  translator whose works include Spanish editions of titles by  best-selling Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. Yepes offers the talk <em>Carving the Air: On Poetry Festivals<\/em> at 7 p.m. Thursday in Chase  Lounge, and Carpintero discusses the translation of poetry at 7 p.m.  Friday in Chase.<\/p>\n<p>The authors&#8217; work will be available at the Bates College Store, 56 Campus Ave., throughout the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poetry, widely defined, can illustrate all issues pertinent to our  times and culture,&#8221; says Aburto Guzm\u00e1n. &#8220;In the public sphere,  translation can help us focus on the challenges involved in  cross-cultural communications.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first &#8220;Translations&#8221; poetry festival at Bates College, in 2010, conference organizer Claudia Aburto Guzm\u00e1n had an encounter that seemed to crystallize the event for her.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative festival presented international poets reading their work in the original language, with English translations prepared by Bates faculty and students. 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