[Bilimsel Haber] Extended Deadline: "Translating Islam"

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers

3rd Duke-UNC Graduate Student Conference on Islamic Studies

"Translating Islam"

(http://www.unc.edu/mideast/conf2006/conf2006.htm)


Conference Dates: April 14-15, 2006

Submission Deadline:  March 5, 2006
(Extended from previous deadline of Feb.15)


The aim of this conference is to explore ways in which the issue of
translation figures in theories, methodologies, ethnographic and 
historiographic
dimensions of the study of Islam and Muslim societies. In recent years 
there has
been a growing interest in the question of translation across the 
humanities and
in the social sciences. The linguistic and cultural turn that has shaped the
modern formation of interpretive studies currently pushes toward further
engagement with issues of translation, namely how concepts, ideas and 
practices
are related to a more complex substrate in culture. In a more radical 
way, the
theoretical frameworks derived from post-structuralism and post-colonial 
studies
equate the ideal of translatability with that of universality.

We invite paper as well as panel proposals that deal with the following
questions, which are not exhaustive:
*        How do Islamicate cultural and intellectual discourses engage in
          translation both within and between traditions?
*        How does the analytic of translation shape comparative studies on
          Islam?
*        What role does translation play in the exegesis, reception and
          transmission of Islamic textual archives?
*        What kind of translation strategies are embedded in contemporary
          discourses on Islam?

Suggested topics include:
*        translating Islamic normativities across time and space
*        translating the Quran in content and form
*        translation in Western scholarship on Islam
*        Muslim modernism and the translation of Enlightenment concepts
*        translation and Muslim networks
*        theories of translation in Sufism
*        ethics, law and politics in translation

The conference will proceed in an interactive workshop format. We expect 
that
those invited to present papers will remain for the duration of the 
conference
in order to engage the work of other participants. Proceedings will be 
held on
the Duke University campus in Durham, NC, USA.

To apply, please send 1) a proposal up to five-hundred words 2) a paper 
title
and 3) a CV to Cate Mills (cate.mills@duke.edu). The deadline for 
submissions
is March 5, 2006.
_______________________
M. Brett Wilson
Duke University
http://www.unc.edu/mideast/conf2006/conf2006.htm