Workshop on “Reading Locally/Writing Globally: Pedagogies and Approaches to Creative Writing and Translation”

On 1st and 2nd July 2019, the University of Southampton’s Centre for Contemporary Modern and Contemporary Writing and the Confucius Institute co-hosted a workshop on“Reading locally/Writing Globally: Pedagogies and Approaches to Creative Writing and Translation”. This international workshop invited experts and scholars from China and the UK explored writing in translation and transnational approaches to creative writing, examined how the pedagogies and approaches of creative writing, reading and reception are shaped by translation and adaptation.

The keynote speaker Professor Regenia Gagnier, from the University of Exeter, started the workshop by presenting on “World Literatures, Languages, Identities”, which explained the cultural exchanges in various regions of the world from a macro perspective and it was followed by a very active Q & A and discussion session.

Presentations were also made by experts and scholars from 11 universities including the Northeast Forestry University of China, University of Bristol, University of Leeds and University of Southampton, which explored critical and practical methodologies for theorising, reading and teaching literary studies in a global context emphasising on the reception of transnational literatures with case studies from Africa and China.