SYMPOSIA

ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL

KNOWLEDGE NETWORK

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA - RIO

UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

3rd

May 2011

Prédio de Ciências Sociais - Salas 8 e 14

9:00 - 12:50

14:30 - 16:00

Universidade de São Paulo

Vice-Reitoria Executiva de Relações Internacionais

Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

Cátedra de Estudos Irlandeses W.B.Yeats

DAILY SCHEDULE

TUESDAY MORNING

ACTIVITIES

9:00 Opening of the Symposia ROOM CS-08

9:10-10:00 LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE ROOM CS-08

- “Language and Style in Irish Literature.”

Paul Simpson (QUB) & Edward Larrissy (QUB)

9:10-10:00 TRANSLATION ROOM CS-14

- “Translation and Illusion”

David Johnston (QUB)

- “Translation and Magic”

Stephen Kelly (QUB)

10:00-10:20 Coffee break

10:20-12:50 LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE ROOM CS-08

- “Investigating identity, gender and power under the

perspective of a multimodal social-semiotic theory.”

Viviane M. Heberle (UFSC)

- “Grammatical metaphor, academic writing and corpus

analysis.”

Lúcia Pacheco de Oliveira (PUC-Rio)

- “Towards Inclusive and Reflexive Teacher Education”

Inés Kayon de Miller (PUC-Rio)

- “Humour, irony and strategies of power.”

Elizabeth Harkot-de-La-Taille (USP)

- “Educating for dissensus in a globalized world: issues

of language, culture, identity and ‘translation as

equivocation’.”

Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza (USP)

- “Irish Literature at global crossroads.”

Laura P.Z. Izarra (USP)

10:20-12:50 TRANSLATION ROOM CS-14

- “TraCor – Translation and Corpora”

Lincoln Fernandes (UFSC)

- “Between Languages and cultures: Emperor Dom

Pedro II as a translator.”

Sergio Romanelli (UFSC)

- “The unconscious inscribed in the translated text.”

Maria Paula Frota (PUC-Rio)

- “Towards a Theory of Adaptation Studies”

John Milton (USP)

- “Translation and Ethics”

Lenita Rimoli Esteves (USP)

TUESDAY AFTERNOON

ACTIVITIES

14:30-16:20 POLITICS AND CONFLICT ROOM CS-08

- “Cross-border co-operation and conflict

transformation in Ireland.”

Cahal McCall (QUB)

- “Conflict? What Conflict? Readings of Violence in

Postcolonial Timor-Leste” / “Conflito? Quê Conflito?

Leituras de Violência em Timor-Leste Pós-Colonial”.

Anthony Soares (QUB)

- NEV-USP (Centre for Research on Violence) and its

Research Programme

Sergio Adorno (USP) & Nancy das Graças Cardia (USP).

- Introducing the Department of Political Science

Rafael Antonio Duarte Villa (USP) & Rossana Reis

(USP)

14:30-16:20 TRANSLATION - Postgraduate seminars ROOM CS-14

- “’Imaginary homelands’? Tradition, nation and the

‘migrancy’ of translation.” Sarah Maitland (QUB).

- “The Construction and Disruption of Tradition in

Theatre and Translation: An Irish-Brazilian CaseStudy.” Alinne Fernandes (QUB).

16:20-16:30 Closing