RAFI, USC hold translation workshop
Twenty fellows—ten from Cebu and ten from other parts of the Visayas―participated in the workshop.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Under the sponsorship of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) and the University of San Carlos (USC) Cebuano Studies Center held a translation workshop dubbed “X ≠ Y: Training Workshop on Literary Translation ” at the Cebu Cathedral Museum last August 20-21.
Twenty fellows—ten from Cebu and ten from other parts of the Visayas―participated in the workshop.
During the first day of the activity, Dr. Erlinda K. Alburo and Prof. Merlie M. Alunan presented a lecture on translation, which tackled the concept, politics, reason, expectations, and tradeoffs of translation.
“Translation can only be as good as the original,” Alunan emphasized in her presentation and all throughout the workshop.