ALTA is excited to provide you with an exciting year-round series of virtual programming (read more here about this year’s conference format), including bimonthly panels and roundtables on literary translation topics.

Proposals for these sessions are now open! Find proposal guidelines on this webpage, and be sure to submit using this form by June 20 at 11:59pm PT. 

Please note: Only ALTA members may submit PANEL proposals. To check your membership status, join, or renew, please visit: http://www.literarytranslators.org/about/join. There is a limit of four panel participants, including the moderator, per session. If you are proposing a ROUNDTABLE, at least one organizer must be a current ALTA member. Organizers may only propose ONE panel or roundtable. If you have not yet joined ALTA or renewed your membership, please do so at http://www.literarytranslators.org/about/join

The theme of ALTA’s 45th year is “Value(s).” Here is an excerpt from the call for proposals: 

No one would question that the field of literary translation is valuable, but our ideas about what exactly is valuable about it multiply and diverge. The very concept of value is multifold, comprising notions that range from a thing’s perceived importance, esteem, or usefulness; material or monetary worth; the fair return for effort, time, and goods; principles or standards of behavior; morals and ethics. Value suggests the myriad opportunities and challenges facing the literary translation community when defining, determining, and shaping the role of the literary translator in producing translated works, as well as literary translation’s role in the cultural marketplace, the academy, society, and the world writ large. 

The ALTA45 theme of “Value(s)” provides an opportunity to explore all definitions relating to concepts of merit, worth, ethics, usefulness, and the market, as well as appreciation, evaluation, and assessment, by inviting members to submit proposals for panels and roundtable discussions around this theme.