Fair-Play and Collaboration: Armenia
Intellectual Property, Working Conditions and Collaborative Actions for Writers and Literary Translators in Armenia
14-15 January 2013
Program
Monday 14 January 2013
10:00 – 10:15 – Registration of participants
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Shushan Avagyan
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Shushan Avagyan
10:15 – 10:30 -
OPENING REMARKS. Tom Samuelian (Dean of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences), and Vahan Khachatryan
(National Publishers Association)
10:30 – 10:50 - INTRODUCING THE BOOK PLATFORM PROJECT. Yana Genova (Next Page Foundation)
10:50 - 11:45 - THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS AND LITERARY TRANSLATORS IN ARMENIA. Armine Anda (scriptwriter, novelist), Viken Berberian (novelist), and Samvel Mkrtchyan (editor of ArtGrakanutyun, writer, literary translator)
11:45 – 12:00 - COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 11:45 - THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS AND LITERARY TRANSLATORS IN ARMENIA. Armine Anda (scriptwriter, novelist), Viken Berberian (novelist), and Samvel Mkrtchyan (editor of ArtGrakanutyun, writer, literary translator)
11:45 – 12:00 - COFFEE BREAK
12:00 – 13:15
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CREATORS' RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES. Daniel Hahn (writer, translator, program director of the British Centre for Literary Translation)
Moderated DISCUSSION / Q&A
13:15 – 14:00 - LUNCH BREAK
13:15 – 14:00 - LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Yana Genova
14:00 – 14:30 -
CONTRACTS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. Sonya Vardanyan (Intellectual Property Agency)
14:30 – 15:30 - PANEL DISCUSSION ON DIGITAL RIGHTS. Shushan Mkhitaryan (Intellectual Property Agency), and Siranush Dvoyan (literary critic, editor of Yev)
Moderated DISCUSSION / Q&A
15:30 – 17:00 - Group exercise on contracts w/ coffee break in-between
Reporting from working groups and DISCUSSION
18:00 - Light dinner for networking at The Club Café (Tumanyan 40)
14:30 – 15:30 - PANEL DISCUSSION ON DIGITAL RIGHTS. Shushan Mkhitaryan (Intellectual Property Agency), and Siranush Dvoyan (literary critic, editor of Yev)
Moderated DISCUSSION / Q&A
15:30 – 17:00 - Group exercise on contracts w/ coffee break in-between
Reporting from working groups and DISCUSSION
18:00 - Light dinner for networking at The Club Café (Tumanyan 40)
Tuesday 15 January 2013
MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Shushan Avagyan
10:00 – 11:15 - COLLABORATION AT THE "CREATORS END". Daniel Hahn
11:15 - 11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:45 - PROMOTING "NON-MAINSTREAM" LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION.
Presentation of two initiatives:
Collaborative Team I: Mkrtich Matevosyan (Aktual Arvest Cultural Union), Vahram Danielyan (literary scholar), and Ruzanna Vardanyan (literary translator)
Collaborative Team II: Arevik Ashkharoyan (owner/literary agent of First Armenian Literary Agency), and Nairi Hakhverdi (literary translator)
12:45 - 13:30 - LUNCH BREAKModerator: Shushan Avagyan
10:00 – 11:15 - COLLABORATION AT THE "CREATORS END". Daniel Hahn
11:15 - 11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:45 - PROMOTING "NON-MAINSTREAM" LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION.
Presentation of two initiatives:
Collaborative Team I: Mkrtich Matevosyan (Aktual Arvest Cultural Union), Vahram Danielyan (literary scholar), and Ruzanna Vardanyan (literary translator)
Collaborative Team II: Arevik Ashkharoyan (owner/literary agent of First Armenian Literary Agency), and Nairi Hakhverdi (literary translator)
AFTERNOON SESSION
13:30 – 14:30 - PROMOTING "NON-MAINSTREAM" LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION
Presentation on the results of the Book Platform project studies on translations from Armenian into other languages
Yana Genova and Daniel Hahn
14:30 – 15:00 -Wrap-up
Additional information
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Comments
11.01.2013
Hasmik Galstyan
Thank you for organizing such great event on a very actual topic in Armenia.
Listening such professional speakers will indeed raise awareness and clarify copyright and related issues for national academic and library community.
Best regards,
Hasmik Galstyan
AUA Papazian Library
eIFL-IP coordinator