Translate in the City (6th – 10th July 2015)
Monday
6th
July 2015
Time
Session
Room
Tutor/speaker
9.30 – 10.00
Welcome and introduction to the course
10.00 – 13.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
French A
A225
French B
A227
German
AG03
Italian
C313
Polish
A108
Portuguese
A107
Japanese
A226
Russian
A214
Spanish
ALG16
Chinese
A109
Ros Schwartz and Amanda Hopkinson,
Translate in the City Summer School Directors
Trista Selous
Ros Schwartz
Ruth Urbom
Howard Curtis
Antonia Lloyd Jones
Margaret Jull Costa
Angus Turvill
Robert Chandler
Nick Caistor
Nicky Harman
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
14.00 – 16.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
As above
16.00 – 16.30
Tea & Networking
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
17.00 – 17.30
Address from Professor Stephen Cottrell,
Head of School
17.30 – 18.30
Evening event: Translation in Europe Talk about opportunities for translation
at the EU + Q&A
Geary lecture theatre (Centenary
building)
Drinks & Canapés, courtesy of Europe
House
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
18.30 – 19.30
As above
Professor Stephen Cottrell, Head of School
Dr. Angeliki Petrits, Languages Officer at
Europe House
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Translate in the City (6th – 10th July 2015)
Tuesday
7th July
2015
Time
Session
Room
Tutor/speaker
10.00 – 13.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
Same as first day
Same as first day
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch + Introduction to Translation
Competition
ELG03
Nichola Smalley of publisher And Other Stories
14.00 – 16.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
As above
As above
16.00 – 16.30
Tea & Networking
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
Keynote Lecture on Translation and the
Imagination: What happens inside your
mind when you travel between texts and
languages
Geary lecture theatre (Centenary
building)
City Summer School Supper
The Peasant, St. John’s Street
17.00 – 18.00
19.00 – 20.30
Professor Maureen Freely, Warwick University
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Translate in the City (6th – 10th July 2015)
Wednesday
8th July
2015
Time
Session
Room
Tutor/speaker
10.00 – 13.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
Same as first day
Same as first day
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
14.00 – 16.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
As above
As above
16.00 – 16.30
Tea & Networking
17.00 – 18.00
Evening talk: From Kids' Playgrounds to
Street
Slang: a vernacular
journey through literary translation
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
Geary lecture theatre (Centenary
building)
Sarah Ardizzone, award-winning literary
translator and tutor on Translation Nation
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Translate in the City (6th – 10th July 2015)
Thursday
9th July
2015
Time
Session
Room
Tutor/speaker
10.00 – 13.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
Same as first day
Same as first day
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch + Readers' Reports & Pitching Books
to Publishers
ELG03
Ros Schwartz and Amanda Hopkinson,
Translate in the City Summer School Directors
14.00 – 16.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
As above
As above
16.00 – 16.30
Tea & Networking
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
Geary lecture theatre (Centenary
building)
Nicky Harman and Helen Wang
Evening event: Chinese translation slam
17.00 – 18.00
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Translate in the City (6th – 10th July 2015)
Friday
10th
July 2015
Time
Session
Room
Tutor/speaker
10.00 – 13.00
Literary Translation workshops in
individual language groups
Same as first day
Same as first day
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
14.00 – 15.15
Workshop Presentations, Sample
Translations & Feedback Session
15.15 – 15.30
Tea & Networking
15.30 – 16.30
Workshop Presentations, Sample
Translations & Feedback Session
continued
All students and workshop tutors
ELG03
Oliver Thompson Lecture
Theatre Foyer (Tait Building)
All students and workshop tutors
ELG03
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Translate in the City (6th – 10th July 2015)

Computer labs
Centenary Building
 Lecture theatres
College Building
 Centre for Translation Studies
 Finance Office
 Lecture theatres
 Open Learning Centre
School of Social Sciences
Innovation Centre
Gloucester Building
Walmsley Building (no longer in use)
Paramount House (no longer in use)
Parkes Building
Tait Building
 Lecture rooms & Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
University Building
 Computer labs & Lecture theatres
 Main Reception Desk
 Students' Union
 University Library
Refectory Building
 Computer labs
 Meeting rooms
 Refectories
 Student Centre
Health Centre
 Occupational Health
 Safety Unit
 Staff Counselling service
 Student Counselling service
 Student Health
Myddelton Building
 Accommodation and Welfare Service
 Centre for Career and Skills Development
 Event Management Service
 Student Employment Service
Goswell Place
Drysdale Building
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