20.00  

 Welcome dinner                                                                                                         

 
 09.00  

Opening

Address by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities,
o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Konrad

Address by the Head of the Department of Translation Studies,
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hanna Risku

Introduction by the organizers

 
 09.30

Keynote Lecture

Jean-Marc Gouanvic (Université Concordia, Montréal)
L’habitus selon Pierre Bourdieu est-il soluble dans la traductologie?

(Simultaneous interpretation)

 
 10.45

1st Session – General theoretical aspects

Chairperson: Michaela Wolf

Rakefet Sela-Sheffy (Tel Aviv University)
Translators’ identity work: Introducing micro-sociological theory of identity to the discussion of translators’ habitus

Discussant: Hanna Risku

          Coffee Break

 12.00

Sameh F. Hanna (University of Salford)
Habitus, norms and the theorisation of the translator’s agency: Potentials and paradoxes

Discussant: Şehnaz Tahir-Gürҫağlar

          Lunch

 
 14.30

Reine Meylaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Double lives: On translators’ multiple self-images and transfer roles across fields. A Lahirian perspective

Discussant: Gisella M. Vorderobermeier

  15.15

Klaus Kaindl (University of Vienna)
From field to habitus: The case of comics translation

Discussant: Michaela Wolf

           Coffee break

  16.30

2nd Session – The relationship between theory and empirical studies

Chairperson: Rakefet Sela-Sheffy

Kumiko Torikai (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)
Oral history as a research method to study interpreters’ habitus

Discussant: Jean-Marc Gouanvic

 
 17.15  

Şehnaz Tahir-Gürҫağlar (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Norms and habitus: Incongruent or complementary?

Discussant: Sameh F. Hanna

 
 18.00  

Gisella M. Vorderobermeier (University of Graz)
The (Re-) construction of "Habitus": A Survey-based Account of Literary Translators Trajectories

Discussant: Gernot Hebenstreit

   19.00

           Buffet

 09.00  

3rd Session – Political and/or critical aspects of the habitus concept

Chairperson: Michaela Wolf

Kristiina Abdallah (University of Vaasa)
The interface of Bourdieu’s "habitus" and Latour’s "agency": Eight Finnish translators and their work trajectories

Discussant: Matthias Apfelthaler

 09.45  

Nadja Grbić (University of Graz)
Becoming sign language interpreters: Habitus as a conceptual enhancement of boundary theory

Discussant: Rakefet Sela-Sheffy

          Coffee break

 10.45  

Panel on ongoing research projects

Chairperson: Reine Meylaerts

Vasso Yannakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Habitus and stylistic translation choices: The case of Yorgos Himonas’ rendering of Hamlet into Greek (1988)

 11.15  

Tania Paola Hernández (University of Manchester)
The contributor, the journalist and the translator: Defining the habitus(es) through journalistic illusio

 11.45  

Kalliopi Pasmatzi (University of Manchester)
From habitus to dispositional plurality: Illuminating the translator’s plural dispositions

 12.15  

Closing session

Introductory statement and moderation:
Beatrix Müller-Kampel (University of Graz, Department of German Philology)

 13.15  

          Lunch

 15.00  

Guided tour through Graz

 19.00  

Buschenschank