Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster

[LITERATURE]
Thursday 15th February
1.15pm - 2.15pm, the Boardroom,
Jordanstown campus
Eating Words: Poetry,
Cookery, and the Art of
Translation
Born in Moscow in 1972, Slav Shumov is a
freelance translator, specializing in TV script
translations.
In this talk he will discuss the art of translating
poetry, comparing it to the art of cookery.
If a recipe requires unavoidable substitution
of ingredients, omission of ingredients and
unfamiliar methods of preparation the cook
must decide if the dish can be presented as
‘authentic’ in any meaningful sense. The
translator must also decide; is this dish
translatable at all? If it is, will it bear sufficient
resemblance to the original in order to be
presented as authentic? If the answer to any of
these is ‘no’, then it is better to leave it alone
and to turn the page.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
[LITERATURE]
Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th February
Coleraine campus and external venues
MANY VOICES
Festival of Literature
The Many Voices Festival of Literature, now
in its fourth year, has established itself as an
annual celebration of the spoken and the
written word. The Festival is the fruit of a
partnership between the Cultural Development
Department and the School of Languages and
Literature.
Many Voices showcases great writing in all
genres through a programme of readings,
workshops and panel discussions. This
year one emphasis is on the novel, and we
are delighted to welcome Colin Bateman,
John Connolly and Bernard MacLaverty, but
there are also contributions from leading
journalists and poets as well as creative writing
workshops for adults and children.
[LITERATURE]
Tuesday 20th February
8.00pm, the Link Lounge, Coleraine campus
A Reading by
Robert Welch
Robert Welch is Dean of
the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Ulster. A
novelist and poet as well
as a critic and editor, he
is the author of a history
of the Abbey Theatre and editor of the Oxford
Companion to Irish Literature. His debut play,
Protestants, premièred to wide critical acclaim
in 2004 and has recently been published by
Lagan Press. He has produced four volumes
of poetry. His most recent collection,
The Evergreen Road shares reflections on
landscape, childhood memories of his native
Cork City, the perils of love, the exhilarations
of friendship, mortality and the joys of
fatherhood.
Admission: Free
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
Cutural Events SPRING 2007