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SILAS Annual lecture 2022 鈥 Mariana Bolfarine
June 16th 2022, 4pm 鈥 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork (online event)
UCC-Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) Annual Lecture, 鈥The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement: Perspectives on Translation, Literature and Displacement鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Our guest lecturer in 2022 was Mariana Bolfarine (Chair, Brazilian Association of Irish Studies)
Roger Casement was British Consul and later an Irish revolutionary directly involved in revealing the violation of human rights committed against the natives of the Belgian Congo (1903) and of the Peruvian Amazon (1911) during the rubber boom in the early 20th century. The aim of this talk is, firstly, to discuss the translation of the Amazon Journal of Roger Casement into Portuguese, along with some of the challenges and solutions provided by the translators and organizers. Secondly, it will examine Casement鈥檚 transatlantic displacement and the role played by the Barbadians, who acted as his English-speaking interpreters in the Amazon, essential for him to be able to build the body of evidence that made his report into a powerful weapon against the perpetrators of those crimes. Finally, I will briefly discuss selected works that explore this moment of history in literary form. The theoretical underpinning for the talk is drawn from translation theory, Anthony Appiah鈥檚 idea of 鈥渞ooted cosmopolitanism鈥, and Peter Burke鈥檚 鈥淗istory as Social Memory鈥.
Mariana Bolfarine holds a PhD from the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of S茫o Paulo and was research fellow at the National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Ireland, Maynooth (2013-2014). Dr. Bolfarine teaches at the Federal 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Rondon贸polis (UFR), is a researcher at the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies and head of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies. She has translated into Portuguese: Roger Casement in Brazil: Rubber, the Amazon and the Atlantic World 1884-1916 (2010) and the Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016), and is the author of Between 鈥淎ngels and Demons鈥: Trauma in Fictional representations of Roger Casement (2018).