Translation Studies Symposium: From Page to Stage 

Monday 1 December 2025 

Advanced Research Centre (Studio 2), University of Glasgow 

This Symposium brings together Translation Studies, Performing Arts, and Visual Culture in investigating how artistic works, from theatre to dance to film and the visual arts, are translated across communities and media. The interdisciplinary event welcomes scholars, students, and practitioners from around the UK, Europe, and China to consider how translation is a performative act and mode of social practice, influenced by agents, networks, and the specific material and digital contexts in which it occurs. The event marks the 10th anniversary for our Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School partnership. Sponsors include the College of Arts and Humanities ArtsLab ‘Page to Stage’ Theme, the Joint Graduate School, the College of Arts and Humanities, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the Society for Italian Studies, the Society for Pirandello Studies, and Italian-Scotland.  

 

9am 

Breakfast 

10am 

Welcome (Nina Parish and Richard Berry, Glasgow) 

Panel 1 

Theatre Translation in the Asian World, chaired by Anselm Heinrich (Glasgow) 

10.10-10.25 

Speaker 1 Shisheng Lv (Nankai) and Enza De Francisci (Glasgow) Introduction to special issue. 

10.25-10.40 

Speaker 2 Lisha Xu (Glasgow) Feminism and Androgyny: Gender Politics in Contemporary Classical Chinese Opera 

10.40-10.55 

Speaker 3 Anna Stecher (Naples) Theatricality in Translation: Der Bockerer, the 

Story of an Anti-fascist Butcher in China 

10.55-11.10 

Speaker 4 Ting Guo (Liverpool) Dancing in Her Seven Veils: Revisiting the 'Salome' Craze in Shanghai in the 1920 and 1930s 

11.10-11.25 

Speaker 5 Shang Ruiqin (Nankai) Cultural Diplomacy: P. C. Chang's Promotion of Peking Opera and Western Drama 

11.25-11.40 

Speaker 6 Yifei Kong (PhD, Glasgow) Moulding Modernity for the Wartime Stage: Translating Eugene O’Neill in China’s Republican Era - online 

11.40-11.55 

Speaker 7 Yidan Hu (PhD, Glasgow) Staging Hong Kong: Translational Politics of Censorship in Historical London Theatre 

11.55-12pm 

Questions/feedback 

12-1pm  

Lunch 

Panel 2 

Translation in the Performing Arts, chaired by Sharon Deane-Cox (Strathclyde) 

1.05-1.20 

Speaker 8 Cristina Marinetti (Cardiff) and Enza De Francisci (Glasgow) Introduction to edited volume 

1.20-1.35 

Speaker 9 Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (Edinburgh) Following the Whales 

1.35-1.55 

Speaker 10 Geraldine Brodie (UCL) with a digital contribution from the director Matthew Xia (Actors Touring Company) Telling new stories: Translation, reading, and commissioning under‑represented voices in theatre. 

1.55-2pm 

Questions/feedback 

2.00-2.30 

Coffee break 

Panel 3 

Pirandello and Other Modern Authors, chaired by Dr Eanna O’Ceallachain (Glasgow) 

2.35-2.40 

Speaker 11 Matt Mahon (Glasgow) - online 

2.40-3pm 

Speaker 12 Alessio Aletta (Cork) Performing Spatiality in Sei Personaggi in cerca d’autore. 

3pm-3.20  

Speaker 13 Giovanna Summerfield (Auburn) Reading and Watching Pirandello’s Honest Dissimulation: Il piacere dell’onestà from page to stage - online 

3.20-3.40 

Speaker 14 Andrea Sartori (Nankai) The ‘Impossible’ Adaptation: Vision, Voice, and the Afterlife of Carmelo Bene’s Nostra Signora dei Turchi (1966). 

3.40-4pm 

Speaker 15 Joseph Farrel (Strathclyde) Dario Fo: Anti-Pirandello? 

4pm-4.20 

Speaker 16 Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia) Performing Political Treachery in Italian Carolingian Narratives: The Case of Gano di Maganza in the Sarina Family's Hand Puppet Theatre - online 

4.20-4.30 

Questions/feedback including contributions from the former editor of Pirandello Studies, Shirley Vinall (Reading), as well as the current editors, Valeria Taddei (Pisa) and Angelo Mangini (Bologna) - online. 

Panel 4 

Performance chaired by Professor Eva Moreda Rodriguez (Glasgow) 

4.30-4.55pm 

Bilingual reading of Mastodascia   

Massimiliano Canzanella and Neil McClelland, (PhD, Glasgow) 

4.55-5pm 

Q&A/close 

5-5.30pm 

Reception