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| Moffat welcomes Moscow |
Top level Russian government connections
dating back two hundred years will be revived 20-22 Sept 2013 when the historic
spa town of Moffat in the south of Scotland, hosts a ground-breaking Russian
translation conference organised by Scottish charity Moffat Book Events with
the State Institute of Translation, Moscow and the Moscow-based State Library
for Foreign Literature (VGBIL).
The spa town was visited by Grand Duke
(later Tsar) Nicholas of Russia in 1816 during his tour of Britain following
victory over Napoleon*. The conference is
to be opened by Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop MSP and State Secretary, Grigory Ivliev,
Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation - see conference
programme below
* The future Tsar Nicholas I stayed at the Annandale (then known as the
King's) Arms hotel -
see www.annandalearmshotel.co.uk
see www.annandalearmshotel.co.uk
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| The Annandale Arms known in 1816 as The King's Arms |
For
attendance booking inquiries please contact:
Alan Thomson alan.thomson25@gmail.com or visit www.moffatbookevents.co.uk
All other inquiries to Elizabeth
Roberts info@moffatbookevents or tel
07968801178
Moffat Book Events is a registered Scottish
charity no SCO42782
Programme Friday 20th September
17.45
Reception and official
conference opening by Cabinet Secretary for Culture and
External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop and State
Secretary, Grigory Ivliev, Deputy Minister of
Culture of Russia
19.01
Presentation by the Museum-Estate ‘Yasnaya
Polyana’
Antonina Klyuchareva and
Nadezhda Pereverzava
20.00 The Art of the
Translator: Three Poems by Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Sorley MacLean
and
Vladimir Mayakovsky by Professor Alan Riach to be followed by a screening of
the documentary film ‘Russia’s Open Book’ by
Paul Mirchell and Sarah Wallis
09.15 Delegate
registration. Moffat House Hotel
09.30 The
Importance of Translation in a 21st Century digital age - an
introduction
Dr E Genieva and Evgeny Reznichenko with Dimitry Bak
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Why
do we need to continue to re-translate the classics?
Speaker: Dmitriy Bak, Chair: Dr Oliver Ready,
Panelists: Prof Peter France, Natalia
Ivanova
and Irina Kirillova
12.30 Introducing
The Institute of Translation
Evgeny
Reznichenko and Vitaly Efimov supported by Dr E Genieva and A Livergant
13.00 Lunch
break and an opportunity to explore the shops and cafes of Moffat
14.30 Can
a Translation ever be better than the original?
Speaker: Alexander
Livergant, Chair: Dr Oliver Ready, Panelists: Arch Tait and
Aleksey
Varmalov
15.30 Afternoon tea
16.00 In conversation with Alexey Varlamov
Chair: Dr E Genieva, Panelists:
17.30
Session ends
19.30
Glasgow University student readings of
translated poems
19.45
Conference
Dinner
20.50
Dr Tom Hubbard presents Lermontov inspired poems
21.15 Burns
and Vysotsky songs in Russian and English from Thomas Beavitt
22.00
Evening ends
Programme Sunday 22nd September
09.45 Coffee Moffat House Hotel
10.00 Capturing the moment in
contemporary fiction
Speaker: Natalie Ivanova, Chair Dmitiry Bak, Panelists: Arch Tait
and Oliver Ready
12.00 Lunch break
13.00 The
Challenges of Translating Lermontov (
and Burns)
Speaker: Prof Peter France, Chair Robyn Marsack,
Panelists: Dr Tom Hubbard,
Alexander Livergant and Irina Kirillova
15.30
Closing conclusions and valedictory
Led by Liz Roberts and
Natalia Ivanova
16.30 Conference closes
17.00 Drinks and Presentation
of the Vladimir Suzdal Museum Reserve
Sveltlana Melnikova
For booking information
see www.moffatbookevents.co.uk
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