ALTA45 Panel: Politics of Red-Tagging Translators Experiences from the Philippines

Literature that has been red-tagged so far includes historical political texts, as well as children’s story books. What happens when a translator is red-tagged? How do these new developments in politics affect our work?

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Moderator

Amanda L. Andrei is a playwright, teaching artist, and literary translator based in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/Washington D.C. Her plays have been produced and developed around the country, and her fiction, essays, and theatre reviews have appeared in Howl Round, Stage RAW, The Margins, Hyphen, and Hip Mama.

Panelists

Soleil Davíd’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Lines, Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines, LARB, and Cream City Review, among others. She has received support from PEN America, VONA, and Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. She is a senior editor at The Margins. Ramon “Bomen” Guillermo is full professor at the Center for International Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) where he teaches subjects on Southeast Asia and Europe. Before this, he taught for many years at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature at the same university. He obtained his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies (Austronesistik) from the Asien-Afrika Institut at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has done academic research and fieldwork in Germany, Japan and Indonesia.