Within a global context, the symposium will propose to debate (but is not restricted to) the following themes:

• Questions relating to the issues of minority voices and cultures in drama translation
• Issues of power, patronage and authority in drama translation
• Modes of production and dissemination of translated drama texts
• Scholarly inquiry into drama translation
• Historiography of drama translation
• Sociology of drama translation
• Plays as artefacts of cultural memory
• Drama translation as a testing ground for (inter)disciplinary paradigms

Invited speakers:

• Prof. Adam Versenyi University of North Carolina, USA (editor and founder of The Mercurian. Prof Versenyi is a specialist in South American drama translation)
• Dr. Roger Baines, University of East Anglia, is a researcher and translator of drama translation.
• Dr. Fred Dalmasso, Worcester University, is a researcher and producer of translated drama.
• Abstracts of no more than 300 words to be submitted by 15 November 2012
• Please email your abstracts to all three organisers:
• Prof Myriam Salama-Carr at M.L.carr@salford.ac.uk
• Szilvia Naray-Davey at S.naray-davey@salford.ac.uk
• Dr. Sameh Hanna at S.hanna@salford.ac.uk

Advisory board:

• Dr Christophe Alix, The University of Hull
• Dr .Natalia Pikli ELTE, The University of Budapest
• Dr Maria Sánchez, The University of Salford School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
• Prof Allan Williams, The University of Salford School of Music, Media and Performing Arts