[Discussion] CFP: Betwixt and Between II: Memory and Cultural Translation (Ireland) (12/15/05; 4/18/06-4/21/06)

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From: Stephen Kelly <s.p.kelly@qub.ac.uk>


Betwixt and Between II: Memory and Cultural Translation
Queen's University Belfast, April 18-21, 2006

The School of English and School of Languages, Literatures and Arts,
in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry invite papers
on:

Memory and Cultural Translation

In recent years, the cultural and historical work of memory has been of
considerable interest to scholars working in all areas of the humanities.

This conference wishes to explore ways in which translation and cross-cultural
exchange are both agents of, and obstacles to, processes of memorialization.
Topics the conference might cover include:

       Translation and / as historiography
       Translating historical writing
       Translation as a metaphor for memory
       Translating conflict
       Translation and national memory
       Translation, philology, the canon
       Memory, ethnography, translation
       Translation and the rupture of belonging
       Memory and its reproductions
       Translating violence
       Translating the political
       Translating the visual

Proposals of no more than 500 words should be sent by DECEMBER 15th, 2005 to:

Dr Stephen Kelly
Memory and Cultural Translation
School of English
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN

Or by email to: betwixt@qub.ac.uk

The conference will generate a second volume of essays under the "Betwixt and
Between" rubric.

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Dr Stephen Kelly
School of English
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN

Tel. 00442890 973952
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/



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