[Discussion] CFP: Self & Identity in Translation (grad) (UK) (6/12/05; 2/4/06-2/5/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Self & Identity IN TRANSLATION

POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM at the University of East Anglia, School of
Literature & Creative Writing

4-5 February 2006  /  Elizabeth Fry Building  /  UEA, Norwich, UK


A two-day postgraduate symposium at the University of East Anglia that
aims to explore the presences of subjectivity, identity and selfhood
in the translator's work and the translation event/text

Possible directions include:

=C2=A7 auto/biographic presences in translation as personal expression or
self-writing
=C2=A7 creative writers turning to translation
=C2=A7 problematic types of translation =E2=80=93e.g. self-translation,
pseudotranslation
=C2=A7 how are historical/cultural, sexual, national or other identities
transferred or transformed through translation?
=C2=A7 psychological and cognitive contexts of translation and interpreti=
ng
=C2=A7 socio-political contexts and/or (personal) ideologies.
=C2=A7 spaces between ethical obligations and subjective appropriations
=C2=A7 the translation of marginal and/or minority communities =E2=80=93t=
ranslation
as voicing
=C2=A7 how does globalisation provide new challenges for the translation =
of
alternative/subversive/dissident narratives?
=C2=A7 visible and invisible translators. How can translation theory, fro=
m
DTS to Derrida and interpreting studies engage with issues of
identity, subjectivity and selfhood?


Keynote Speakers

Mona Baker / Josephine Balmer / Jean Boase-Beier / Ian Mason / Clive Scot=
t


For more details and information visit our website
http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/events/self+identity/callforpapers.htm

Abstracts of max 350 words (with bibliographical references) for 20
min papers should be sent by 12 June 2005 to selfandidentity@gmail.com

Notification of acceptance of proposals will be given by the end of July
2005.
Selected papers will be submitted for publication.

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The Organising Committee

Maria-Venetia Kyritsi, Paschalis Nikolaou, Funda Isbuga-Erel




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