Time: 6:30pmVenue: ArtsOne Lecture Theatre, ArtsOne Building, Mile End Campus
Centre for Catalan Studies Annual Lecture
Dr Helena BufferyDepartment of Hispanic Studies, University College Cork
The paper will focus on the ways in which contemporary Catalan theatre and performance have mapped the changing space of Catalan culture in projects that deliberately set out to explore the different layers of identification that construct senses of place in the Catalan-speaking territories. Through analysis of a range of projects since the beginning of the twenty-first century, I will trace how their diverse modes of engagement with the contemporary Catalan landscape, and in particular with the different languages brought into contact within and around that landscape, reveal the Catalan stage as a translation zone of encounter between different identities, languages, cultures and subjectivities.
Helena Buffery teaches and researches in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork. She has made significant contributions to the field of Hispanic Studies in three main areas: Contemporary Hispanic theatre and performance, Translation Studies and Catalan Studies, with a particular focus on the relationship between Catalan and the other languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. Recent publications include: Shakespeare in Catalan: Translating Imperialism (2007; 2010); Stages of Exile: Spanish Republican Exile Theatre and Performance (2011); Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power (co-edited with Carlota Caulfield, 2012). She is currently President of the Anglo-Catalan Society