Our final network event will take place at the University of Glasgow on Friday 13 December 2019. The current programme for this event is listed below.

Decadence and Translation

9.30: Welcome.
10am: Session 1.
Chair: Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)
Venue: Room 101, 5 University Gardens

• Lara Raffaelli, ‘D’Annunzio in Translation’
• Caroline Crépiat and Benedicte Coste (Burgundy), ‘Ubiquitous translations in French periodicals of the fin de siècle’

11am Postgraduate Papers Panel A
Chair: Jane Desmarais (Goldsmiths)
Venue: Room 101, 5 University Gardens

• Katharina Herold (Oxford), ‘De-Orientalising pomegranates: Wilde in Arabic translations’
• Adam Wilson (Glasgow), ‘Russian Decadence’
• Ekaterina Shatalova (Oxford)  ‘Russian Translations of Salome’

12:30 pm – Lunch

1:30pm – Postgraduate Papers Panel B
Chair: Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds)
Venue: Room 205, 5 University Gardens

• Colton Valentine (Yale), ‘En Route to the Victorians: The Translation Histories of Two Novels by Joris-Karl Huysmans’
• Eleanor Keane, (Goldsmiths) ‘Princesses of Glass and Silence: Renée Vivien’s (Re)translation of the Fairytale’
• Anne Rainey, ‘Carson as bricoleur? Examining the technical challenges addressed by Irish poet Ciaran Carson, in translation of Rimbaud.’

3 pm – Translation workshop sessions

• Translating Huysmans – Brendan King (Independent Scholar)
  Venue: Room 202, 4 University Gardens
• Translating Rachilde – Jennifer Higgins (Independent Translator)
  Venue: Room 205, 5 University Gardens
• Translating D’Annunzio – Elisa Segnini (University of Glasgow)
  Venue: Room 101, 5 University Gardens

4.30 pm – Postal Pursuits
Venue: Glasgow Library Special Collections
Chair: John Coyle (University of Glasgow)

• Mallarmé and the Postman – Philip Terry (University of Essex)
• Launch of Récréations postales: A Digital Exhibition – Matthew Creasy (University of Glasgow)

Please note daytime events will take place in or around 5 University Gardens (see map below).

For visitors coming from further away, this can be reached by the Number 4 bus from Hope Street or Bath Street in the centre of town, which stops on nearby University Avenue. The closest subway station is Hillhead – a five minute walk from our venue. If coming by taxi, ask to be set down outside the Main University Gates.