[csaa-forum] Keynote Lecture: Translating Iran: Imitation, Adaptation, and Appropriation by Amy Motlagh (The American University in Cairo), Thursday 8th December, 3.30 – 5 pm at UNSW

[Laetitia Nanquette]

Keynote Lecture: Translating Iran: Imitation, Adaptation, and Appropriation

by  Amy Motlagh (The American University in Cairo)
Thursday 8th December, 3.30 – 5 pm
at UNSW, Robert Webster 327,

Amy Motlagh is an Associate Professor and currently the director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is a trained Persianist with long-standing research interests in gender, law and the cultural production of the Middle East.

To look at the history of practices of “translation” (including conventional forms of translation as well as adaptations, imitations, and pseudo-translations) between Iran and the West is to discover unexpected sympathies and filiations. Some of these translations have been enabled at the institutional level by fellowship and exchange programs, while others have been undertaken without such facilitation, but both types open up space for reexamination of questions related to authenticity and originality. Looking at several such acts of translation as case studies, this paper considers the ethics and aesthetics of cultural transfer and exchange in a world where in spite of Iran’s vilification in popular media, its literature has nonetheless been crucial to modern conceptions of self in the West.
This lecture is part of the Worlding Iran Symposium:
https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/call-for-papers-worlding-iran-contemporary-iranian-culture-and-the-world/

Dr Laetitia Nanquette,
Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow,
School of Arts and Media,
University of New South Wales, Sydney
+61 (2) 9385 7792

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