Christine Lombez is the director of the ERC project TranslAtWar, investigating how literary translation can contribute to the understanding of history in the making and reciprocally with a focus on WW2. In this seminar Lombez will present this project, and meet and discuss with Norwegian scholars working on related topics from a Norwegian perspective.
Programme
- 10.00-10.15 Welcome and introduction by the organisers, Professor Christine Amadou (IFIKK) and Ika Kaminka (editor, NOleks)
- 10.15-11 Presentation of the TranslAtWar project by Professor Christine Lombez (Nantes Université)
- 11.15-11.45 Ida Hove Solberg: Censorship and propaganda: Translated literature as an ideological battlefield in Occupied Norway
- 12.00-12.45 Narve Fulsaas (UiT): German Literature in Norwegian 1941–1945: an overview of authors, publishers, and translators
- 12.45-13.15 Lunch
- 13.15- 13.45 Benedikt Jager (UiS): «The new commandments for the new are these:» On Finn Halvorsen's anthology German Poets (1941)
- 14.00-14.45 Pål Csaszni Halvorsen (OsloMet): Literary Treason and Translation. On Writers in the Purges after WWII and Their Translations
The seminar is open for all but due to the size of the room and to the lunch, we ask you to sign up by 15 April.