EVENT DETAILS

Translation Workshop On Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men & The Task of the Translator of Persian Literature

Sponsored by the Maseeh Chair Endowment

9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Nasrin Rahimieh (Maseeh Chair and Director)

Ali Meghdadi’s Research on the English Translations
Of Women without Men

10 a.m. Conversation with Shahrnush Parsipur

11-11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The First English Translation of the Novella
Jocelyn Sharlet (UC Davis), Kamran Talattof (University of
Arizona)
Moderator: Touraj Daryaee (Baskerville Chair and Associate
Director)

12:30-2 p.m. Lunch Break

2- 3:15 p.m. The Second Translation
Faridoun Farrokh, Professor Emeritus (Texas A & M
International University)
Moderator: Mazyar Lotfalian (Assistant Director)

3:15-3:30 p.m. Break

3:30-5 pm Persian Literature and the Task of the Translator
Blake Atwood (University of Texas at Austin)
M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Professor Emeritus (University of Texas
at Austin), Frank Lewis (University of Chicago), Ngugi wa
Thiong’o (UCI Distinguished Professor)

Shahrnush Parsipur’s novella Zanan bedun-e mardan, originally published in Persian in 1990 and subsequently banned in Iran, has been translated into English twice (1998 and 2012). This workshop brings together the author, her English translators, and a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature whose dissertation focuses on the translations of Parsipur’s novella. They are joined by other translators and scholars of translation studies to discuss the ways in which texts and their translations circulate among readers.

Free and Open to the Public

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