https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:40:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/vocabularies-of-longing/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:16:17 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17230 How do the translator and the reader work with emotion flowing from text? Sarah Jacoby (Northwestern) and Lara Braitstein (McGill) pose questions and present examples from Tibetan poetry in this breakout session convened on the first morning of the 2018 Lotsawa Translation Workshop. Sarah discusses how we move from literature to life if literary theory maintains that the stories are only words on a page. She explores the intersubjective encounter with what we read and how emotion can be decoded when considering the work’s literary origins and historical context, then offers some tips for translators to work with the emotional register. Lara considers emotional register from the Indic and Tibetan perspective and the translator’s job in creating a new emotional community. The group then considers the translator’s effect on the way emotion is embraced in the target language and the responsibility of reciprocity of translation work.

]]> https://conference.tsadra.org/session/dynamics-of-devotion/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:14:53 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17241 Andrew Quintman (Wesleyan), Lara Braitstein (McGill), Heidi Nevin (Independent), Anne Klein (Rice), Holly Gayley (University of Colorado, Boulder), and Annabella Pitkin (Lehigh) take on the topic of devotion in translation. Annabella Pitkin skillfully facilitates discussion focused on three themes: literary and embodied devotion, translation as an act of devotion, and the cultural translation of devotion. Regarding the first, the group considers what terms are particularly difficult to unpack in English, posing questions like, “How does language serve to dictate devotion?”, and, “How does literature and its utterance help mediate the distance between subject and object?” While translators are positioned as well-intentioned authorities, translation as an act of devotion relates to the ethos of the translator approaching the translation of devotional literature and how translators might perform their craft in service to particular communities of practice. Finally, the panel discusses how to translate a concept like devotion across language communities and cultural differences acknowledging the role of the translator to guide or teach based on his or her choices. These topics elicit enthusiastic participation from the audience and a lively discussion ensues.

]]> https://conference.tsadra.org/session/who-gets-to-be-a-translator-qualifications-and-questions-of-authority/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:39:15 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14947 An open discussion about qualifications and questions of authority related to translating and being a translator. Who decides what to translate? How and why? How do translator’s learn from each other? What qualities seem most important to cultivate as a translator? What are the qualifications of a translator? What trainings were the most important in your development as a translator? Or what was lacking? How does one measure the qualifications of a translator and how does one improve? How do you take ownership and responsibility for your work?

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