Summer Translation Collaborative II with Julia Keblinska and Patricia Sieber
June 10-14, 2024, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, U.S.A., in person)
Module development for the “Chinese Theater Collaborative” (CTC)
In this week-long workshop on the Ohio State campus, CTC co-editors Julia Keblinska and Patricia Sieber will guide a small group of participants in authoring new modules for the Chinese Theater Collaborative (CTC) digital resource center. The program will feature presentations on how to handle different texts and diverse media, hands-on module development, and spirited peer review. This year’s workshop will focus on the modern afterlives of Guan Hanqing’s plays in any media (e.g., different traditional theatrical/operatic styles, spoken drama of any tradition, films, animation, TV drama, graphic renditions, prints, etc). The goal is to create draft modules that can eventually be published on CTC.
We would like to recruit a diverse cohort of advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent MFAs and PhDs. Required qualifications: advanced command of modern Chinese, professional fluency in spoken and written English. Experience with translation, theater or other media is desirable, but not required. We welcome participants, who are interested in developing either individually authored or collaborative written modules. CTC modules are backed by scholarly research but presented in an accessible and visually appealing style to cater to diverse publics. We especially welcome applications by members of traditionally underrepresented groups.
Application (by May 1, 2024): We will provide a limited number of stipends for travel & lodging. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please submit two documents to ChineseTheaterCollaborative@osu.edu
1. A letter of interest with the following information: Brief biographical background; institutional affiliation; standing; language training and proficiency (all languages); prior involvement with theater, other performing arts (any tradition), and different media; prior translation and interpreting experience (all languages); prior publications (if any); funding needs (if any).
2. An abstract (250 words) with the following information: Identification of up to three Guan Hanqing plays that you are interested in exploring; at least one modern production (with relevant production information) that you would be interested in making a module for; specific points of analytical interest that you would explore in such a module.
Notification of Acceptance/Funding Support: We will notify you around May 3, 2024 about (1) whether or not you have been selected for admittance; and (2) how much funding support we can offer (if traveling from out of town). For any questions, please contact Prof. Patricia Sieber at sieber.6@osu.edu.
Acknowledgments: This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ohio State Global Arts and Humanities Summer Institute Program and funds from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award.
Free and Open to the Public
If you require an accommodation, such as live captioning, to participate in this event, please contact EASC at easc@osu.edu. Requests made at least two weeks in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
