Translation : Dramaturgy

The Performing Arts and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments invite you to a mini-conference in conjunction with our production of Hsu Yen Ling’s The Dust.

“Translation : Dramaturgy,” is supported by a grant from the Republic of China (Taiwan) and features presentations by translators working in a variety of languages, including a keynote address by actress/playwright Ellen McLaughlin, whose contemporary translation of The Oresteia will be presented by the Performing Arts Department Spring 2023.

Registration is open until Sunday, November 6, 2022.

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Thursday, November 17

Hurst Lounge

4:00 p.m. - Conference Keynote
Ellen McLaughlin, "What We Owe to the Dead"

Friday, November 18

Women's Building Formal Lounge

9:00 - 11:00 am 
Intra- and Interculturalism: Trans/National Contexts 
Moderator: Matthias Görritz

Panelists:
Martin Puchner, “How to Translate a Secret Language: The Strange Case of Rotwelsch, The Language of Vagrants in Middle Europe”
Aparna Dharwadker, "Multilingualism and Theatre Translation: The View from India"
Heather Denyer, “Transcultural Translation: Sharing West African Theatre with US Audiences”

11:30 - 12:45 
Lunch Provided

1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Translating the Paralinguistic
Moderator: Philip Boehm

Panelists:
Neil Blackadder, “Translator-Director Collaboration as Dramaturgy”
Dasia Posner, “Translating beyond Words”
Adam Versényi, “Ramón Griffero and The Politics of the Dramaturgy of Space”

4:00 p.m.
Production Keynote
Annelise Finegan, “A crowd of voices... What is 'human'?": Translation of Hsu Yen Ling's The Dust as Dramaturgy”

8:00 p.m.
PAD Production of Hsu Yen Ling's The Dust* (A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre)
Followed by a post-show discussion with director William Whitaker, translator Annelise Finegan, and playwright, Hsu Yen Ling

*Tickets for The Dust can be purchased at https://edison.wustl.edu/calendar_event/the-dust/

Saturday, November 19

Women's Building Formal Lounge

9:00 - 11:30 am
Roundtable on publishing Drama in Translation

Panelists:
Adam Versényi, founding editor of The Mercurian 
Neil Blackadder, founding partner of TinT 
Martin Riker, publisher of Dorothy: A Publishing Project

12:00 p.m. - Box Lunch