Translation as a Multiplayer Game

by Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications

Lecture Humanities

Mon, Feb 27, 2023

12 PM – 1 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Louis Simpson International Building, 144

Princeton, NJ 08544,

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We typically conceive of translation as a solitary activity, yet translating plays for performance – the focus of much of Neil Blackadder’s work – involves extensive collaboration with directors and actors as well as authors. And he is currently engaged in translating from two languages at once: Anne Weber wrote Ahnen in German and translated it into French. Blackadder will explore these and other contexts in which collaboration makes translation triangular or even a multiplayer game.
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Louis Simpson International Building, 144

Princeton, NJ 08544,

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Neil Blackadder

Neil Blackadder is a German to English and French to English translator and the author of “Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience.” Specializing in theater translation, Blackadder has experience collaborating on fully staged productions as well as readings of his translations, working with a number of theaters in New York City, Chicago, Portland, Washington, D.C., Berlin. and elsewhere. He has twice held residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and Writers Omi at Ledig House. His work has often been supported by the Goethe-Institut, as well as by the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Austrian Cultural Forum and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. Ph.D. Princeton.

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