Subject: Call for Papers - ASNEL
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:08:32 +0100


ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW ENGLISH
LITERATURES (ASNEL)/JAHRESTAGUNG DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR DIE NEUEN
ENGLISCHSPRACHIGEN LITERATUREN (GNEL)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRANSLATION OF CULTURES

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, May 4-7, 2005
 

Perhaps more than in any other period in modern history our globalised
present is characterised by a permanent  interaction of, and exposure
to, different peoples, nations, regions, ways of life, traditions,
religions, languages, and cultures. Cross-boundary communication today
comes in various shapes: as mutual exchange, open dialogue, enforced
process, misunderstanding, or violent conflict. In this situation
"translation" becomes an inevitable requirement in order to ease the
flow of disinterested and unbiassed communication. In the context of
this conference translation may be approached from different angles.
Naturally, it refers to the rendering of texts from one language into
another and the shift between languages under pre-colonial
(retelling/transcreation), colonial (domesticating), and post-colonial
(multilingual trafficking) conditions. It is concerned with the
(in-)adequacy of the Western translation concept of equivalence, the
problem of the (un-)translatability of cultures, and new postcolonial,
approaches (representation through translation). In addition,
translation is used as a wider term covering the interaction of
cultures, the transfer of cultural experience, the concern with cultural
borders and identities, the articulation of liminal experience, and
intercultural understanding.

 

Suggestions for papers:

- Postcolonial multilingualism/multiculturalism and translation

- Travel and translation in the contact/conflict zone

- Migration and the translation diaspora

- Translation as cultural trade

- Politics of cultural representation

- Translatability and untranslatability of cultures

 
Proposals for papers should be sent together with an abstract (of ca.
200 words) not later than Dec. 31, 2004 to
Prof. Dr. Konrad Gross,

Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet

Englisches Seminar

Leibnizstr.10, 24098 Kiel, Germany.

Tel. 0049-431-880-3346/2672.

E-mail: kgross-AT-anglistik.uni-kiel.de
 
www.anglistik.uni-kiel.de/asnel2005.html







 


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