[Discussion] Translating Terror: Globalisation and the New Planetary Wars

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Translating Terror: Globalisation and the New Planetary Wars
12 November 2005
Venue: Social Studies SO.20
University of Warwick, UK


A one day international conference organised by the Centre for Translation and
Comparative Cultural Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and
Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK.

Uncertainty, insecurity and conflict are constitutive features of globalisation.
9/11 has been viewed as the symbolic unleashing of a new Age of Terror, in which
traditional conceptions of national security are shattered and a new kind of
global vulnerability emerges. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore
the relationship between globalisation and political violence, to analyse the
way that terror has been represented through the global media and to highlight
the importance of translation in shaping current discourses on terror.


Programme

9.00- 9.30 	Registration and coffee

9.30- 10.00 	Welcome and Introduction
Susan Bassnett and Jan Aart Scholte


10.00- 11.00 	Keynote Speaker: Upendra Baxi, University of Warwick


11.00- 11.30 	Coffee


11.30- 1.00 	Panel One: Globalisation and Political Violence
Chaired by Chris Hughes

Globalisation and Spread of Violence in the Middle East
Masoud Ghaffari (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)

Tightening the Grip on the Slippery Pole: The Globalisation of Control from the
New World Order to the War on Terror
David Small (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Propaganda in the War on Terrorism. How Iraq’s Dictator Became a Terrorist
Rat
Anders G. Romarheim (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)


1.00- 2.00 	Lunch


2.00- 4.00 	Panel Two: Language and Translation in Media Discourses on Terror
Chaired by Esperança Bielsa

Missiles in Athens and Tanks at Heathrow: Urban Security and the Materialisation
of ‘Global’ Threat
Stuart Price (De Montfort University, UK)


War Toys
David Machin (Cardiff University, UK)


A Study of Shifts in the Translation and the Analysis of a Crucial Political
Speech
Gilles Quentel (University of Gdansk, Poland)


Interpreting in Diplomatic Settings: From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
Maria Rosaria Buri (University of Lecce, Italy)


4.00- 4.30 	Coffee


4.30- 5.15 	General Discussion and Closing Remarks



Dr. Esperança Bielsa
Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)24 7657 4783
Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4468
Email: e.bielsa@warwick.ac.uk

Visit the website at
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ctccs/research/tgn/events/tt/