Since 2022, Université Gustave Eiffel has hosted collective translation workshops: each week a few translators have met to translate contemporary English-language poets into French.
In June 2024, with the support of the University Innovative Teaching Grant Program, we organized a Spring – Summer Translation Workshop with poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.
In May 2025, we are hosting poet Simone White for a 4-day collective translation workshop, May 19-22, 2025 at Université Gustave Eiffel.
Registration
If you are interested in joining the Translation Collective, please register HERE.
Where and when?
The translation workshop will take place during the week of May 19, Monday through Thursday, at the English Department, UFR de Langues, on the 3rd floor of the Copernic building, from 10 a.m. to noon and then from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. How to get to the University and the Copernic building: full instructions HERE.
Monday 19 May, 10am-12pm | 1-4pm, room 3.134, Copernic building (3rd floor)
Tuesday 20 May: 10am-12pm | 1-4pm, room 3V071, Copernic building (3rd floor)
Wednesday 21 May: 10am-12pm | 1-4pm, room 3V071, Copernic building (3rd floor)
Thurday 22 May: room 3.134, 10am-12pm | 1-4pm, Copernic building (3rd floor)
It is not necessary to attend all sessions in order to participate.
On Tuesday, May 20, there will be a poetry reading with Simone White, Mia E. Trabalon & Thalie Yang-Barnier and the translators at 7pm at the Michael Woolworth workshop in Paris (Bastille). Reading details HERE.
What is a collective translation workshop?
Since the fall of 2022, we have organized weekly collective poetry translation seminars in the English department at Université Gustave Eiffel: the members of the collective gather each week to translate texts together. Based on the translation workshop model developed by Bernard Noël and Emmanuel Hocquard at the Fondation Royaumont, these informal yet engaged sessions aim to produce collaborative translations. For our Spring-Summer Translation Workshop in 2025, poet Simone White will join us from May 19 to 22.
Simone White is a New York based poet and critic. She is the author of 5 books of poetry and prose including, most recently, the companion books or, on being the other woman (Duke 2022) and Warring (forthcoming from Duke) an essay regarding the poethical effects of contemporary rap music. Her writing on visual art has been published in Artforum, Mousse Magazine, Frieze and many exhibition catalogs. She is Associate Professor of English and Associate Faculty Director of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the writing faculty at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Simone White’s website is https://simone-white.com/about/
Excepts of Simone White’s writing can be found at:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/simone-white
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