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SpokenWeb Podcast Listening Party: Season 5 Episode 1, “As It Is or As It Was: Translating ‘The Ruin’ Poem”
When: Monday, October 2 — 1 hour of listening followed by a 30 minute Q&A with producer Ghislaine Comeau
Where: On Zoom | Register in advance for this meeting: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/83560763595
We're back with our first Listening Party of Season 5 of The SpokenWeb Podcast! Join us Monday, October 2, for "As It Is or As It Was: Translating 'The Ruin' Poem" by PhD student Ghislaine Comeau from Concordia University.
These Listening Parties are a wonderful opportunity to listen together collectively and hear from the producers themselves about the making and content of their episodes. We'll begin with listening to the newest episode together on Zoom at 1 PM PT/4PM ET, and at 2PM PT/5PM ET we'll have a virtual Q&A with the producers and some of the episode's guests. Feel free to join us for the listening at 1PM PT, or listen on your own device separately and hop in for the Q&A at at 2PM PT. Follow us at @SpokenWebCanada and use the hashtag #SpokenWebPod to join the conversation: what moments jump out to you?
About the episode:
How do we represent textually and perform orally the missing pieces from damaged medieval manuscripts?
In this episode, Ghislaine Comeau, Concordia PhD student studying early medieval literature, brings us along on her quest to translate the “The Ruin” – a famously ruined Old English poem from the 10th century manuscript known as the Exeter Book. In conversation with medievalists Dr. Stephen Yeager and Dr. Stephen Powell, she discusses sounds in Old English texts, exploring how these may have been read and/or performed and how they may now be translated, represented, and performed.
Quest fulfilled; the episode ends with Ghislaine’s reading of her translation of “The Ruin.”
