[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Life Writing and Translations

[Gonul Pultar]

  Life Writing and Translations

From: Craig Howes <craighow_at_hawaii.edu 
<mailto:craighow_at_hawaii.edu?Subject=Re:%20CFP:%20%5BEthnic%5D%20Life%20Writing%20and%20Translations>> 


Call for Papers

The Sixth Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference
Honolulu, Hawai‘i
June 23-26, 2008

Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2007

Conference Topic: Life Writing and Translations

The Center for Biographical Research and the International 
Auto/Biography Association invite scholars from around the world to 
attend the sixth IABA conference, which will be held at the East-West 
Center, next to the campus of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, in 
Honolulu.

Translation is central to all forms of representation; the theme for 
this conference is Life Writing and Translations, in the widest sense of 
the term. We welcome papers dealing with the following kinds of 
translation, and others as well:

Linguistic­-Accounts of language acquisition, and their relation to 
senses of identity, of relations with others, of community, of 
separateness.
Immigrant life writing narratives. Indigenous peoples and life writing.
Poly-lingual texts. Polyphonic and heteroglossic texts.
And of course, the translation of life writing texts from one language 
to another.


Generic­-Life writing texts often move from one literary, artistic, 
disciplinary, technological, or rhetorical form to another. Papers can 
deal with representing peoples’ lives in any medium­film, graphic text, 
writing, image, performance. They can examine the adaptation of one 
representational form to another­from book to film, from film to 
musical, from orature to literature, from page to stage to page, from 
popular confession to auto-ethnography, from case study to gossip. Or 
they can look at multi-generic works­online life writing incorporating 
visual, aural, and textual dimensions, or performance works combining 
presence and representation in several media.

Cultural­-Cultural translation involves the vexed but necessary efforts 
to communicate central ideas, histories, concerns, desires, needs, 
politics, identities from one cultural position or community to another. 
Translation is the act that takes place in Mary Louise Pratt’s contact 
zone, or on Greg Dening’s beach, or at a Truth and Reconciliation 
Committee hearing.
Translation is often the negotiating of issues of gender, race, class, 
and disability (transnational, transgender, transcultural). Translation, 
as movement between states or spaces­transits, transitions­also shapes 
travel
narratives. Translation, as a mediation between past and present, takes 
into account historical specificity. And translation participates in the 
political and cultural dynamics between nations, and national groups.

Because our primary concern will be striking up and sustaining 
conversations between conference participants, papers should be limited 
to fifteen minutes in length, to insure time in all sessions for 
questions and full discussion. Panels on a single topic and submitted 
together are welcome. (Panels and sessions will have three presenters.) 
Given the
theme of the conference, panels and individual papers may be conducted 
or delivered in the language of the participant’s choice­various 
arrangements will be made well before the conference to allow other 
conference attendees to participate. All participants should also inform 
the organizers about media requirements for presentations­DVD, live 
internet, visual projection, audio, and so on.

Abstracts for papers should be @300 words long. There should be an 
abstract for each paper in a panel presentation. The deadline for 
abstracts will be November 1, 2007. Though e-mail is preferred, 
abstracts can be submitted by mail or fax to the following numbers and 
addresses.

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IABA Conference Call for Papers
c/o The Center for Biographical Research
Department of English
1733 Donaggho Road
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822
USA

Fax number: 1-808-956-3774
e-mail: biograph_at_hawaii.edu


We would be happy to answer questions. Contact the CBR at the same numbers
and addresses.

Craig Howes
Director, Center for Biographical Research
Co-Editor, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Professor of English


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