Conference Programme

13.00 onwards

Registration; coffee and tea are available

14.00

Welcome by Andrew Quick (Director of LICA) and Allyson Fiddler (European Languages and Cultures)

14.15-15.30

Chair: Rebecca Braun (Lancaster University)

Martin Brady (King's College London), 'Nicht zu alt für Sport im allgemeinen': Winter Sports in Elfriede Jelinek's Winterreise'

Bastian Reinert (University of Chicago), 'Ski Heil! The Alps as "sport equipment" in Jelinek's writing'

15.30-16.00

Coffee/Tea

16.00-17.00

Chair: Birgit Smith (Lancaster University)

Hanno Biber (Vienna; Academy of Sciences), 'Disassembling Sports Language. A Corpus-linguistic analysis of Ein Sportstück'

Karen Juers-Munby (Lancaster University), 'Agon and Conflict: Einar Schleef's theatre production of Elfriede Jelinek's Sportstück'

17.00-17.45

Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster University), 'Austrians in the Political Arena: If you want to know the scores, don't look away now'

18.00

Dinner

(Please migrate to the Nuffield Theatre after dinner, the bar will be open from 19.00 and a bookstall will be present.)

20.00

At Lancaster University's Nuffield Theatre: British Première of Elfriede Jelinek, A Sports Play (dir. Vanda Butkovic)

Post-show discussion chaired by Matt Fenton (Director of the Nuffield Theatre) and Allyson Fiddler

09.15-11.00

Translation Workshop with keynote speaker, Penny Black, 'Good plays, bad translations' (Chair: Rebecca Braun)

11.00-11.30

Coffee/Tea

11.30-13.00

Roundtable – Plays in Translation on the British Stage. Contributors include: Giles Croft (Nottingham Playhouse), Peter Mikl (Director Austrian Cultural Forum, London), Vanda Butkovic and Berislav Juraic (Just a Must; director and producer of Sports Play), Penny Black (Translator, London), Karen Juers Munby (in the chair)

13.00-13.55

Lunch

14.00-15.00

Chair: Juliet Wigmore (University of Salford)

Rebecca Braun (Lancaster University), 'Embodying achievement: the literary award ceremony as a national sport'

Jens Peters, (University of Exeter), 'Translating Strategies not Words – Jelinek's The Exterminating Angel (Rechnitz) and The Translation of Postdramatic Texts'

15.00-16.00

Chair: Catriona Firth (University of Leeds)

Sarah Neelsen (Sorbonne Nouvelle), '"Also sollen diese Essays reisen": Contributing to Jelinek's journey with a stop in France'

Ian W. Wilson, (Centre College, Danville, Kentucky), '"Wir kommen ja selbst aus der Provinz": On the Legibility of Austria in Elfriede Jelinek's Work'

16.00-16.30

Coffee/Tea

16.30-17.30

Chair: Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster University)

Gitta Honegger (Arizona State University), keynote lecture: 'Klitterungsklistier: Translating Elfriede Jelinek for the stage', with assistance from Ryan Kygell and Elisa Terren (aya theatre)

18.30

Welcome by Robert Crawshaw (Head of Department, European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster)

Drinks Reception

19.00

Conference Dinner

09.00-10.30

Chair: Karen Jürs-Munby (Lancaster University)

Inge Arteel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 'Translating and adapting Jelinek for the Dutch-speaking stage'

Sunanda Mahajan (University of Pune), 'Translating Jelinek's text [into Marathi]: a linguistic experience'

Arnhilt Hoefle (IGRS, London), 'More than a Nobel hype? The reception of Elfriede Jelinek in China

10.30-11.00

Coffee/tea

11.00-12.15

Chair: Georgina Paul (Oxford University)

Karl Solibakke (Syracuse University), 'Geseire, Geleiere und Gehübungen: The Aesthetics of Sports and Music in Selected Works of Elfriede Jelinek'

Deborah Holmes (University of Kent) '"Wie eine verirrte Billardkugel": Sport as (auto)biographical metaphor in the works of Elfriede Jelinek'

12.15

Closing remarks and administration (publication plans)

12.30-14.30

Lunch and departure