Category: Events

2nd Hermēneus Colloquium for Translation and Interpreting: Linguistic Mediation and Humanities. Tradition, Innovation and Revolution Dates: 6-8 May 2020 Venue: University of Valladolid, Soria, Spain Languages: Spanish, French, English Deadline for proposal submission: 30 September 2019 Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2019 Registration: Speakers: €100 (early bird rate, 31 January 2020), €120 after deadline. Poster participation: €65, €75 (after deadline) […]

Translation Studies in East Asia: Tradition, Transition and Transcendence (2019EAST) 13-14, December 2019 @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR Home to the cradle of various ancient civilizations, East Asia boasts remarkable and seemingly inscrutable traditions of language, culture and thought. Long histories of translational activities in the region have testified to the diffusion of knowledge, the quest […]

International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Right, Justice and Environment Dates: October 18-19,2019 Venue: North Carolina State University,Raleigh, North Carolina Deadline to submit abstract (150 words) : August 10, 2019 The conference is directed and organized by the Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange, Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion Elon, NC, USA. Acceptance of proposal will be mailed within […]

Translating Modernity: The Dissemination and Mediation of Modern Concepts in Asia Convenors: Yifan Zhu and Kyung Hye Kim, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Modernity, the ensemble of socio-cultural concepts that include science, rationality, liberty, the individual, rights and democracy, arose initially in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was introduced to Asia between the latter half of the […]

Open panels The Genealogies of Knowledge II conference will be hosting the following open panels. Colleagues are warmly invited to submit paper abstracts for consideration by the panel convenors by 30 September 2019. Please click on the links below to read the call for papers relevant to each panel: Rewriting Chains in Comic Book Adaptations of Canonical Texts Convenor: Dimitris Asimakoulas, […]

CONFERENCE ON Translation in/of World Politics: Language, Practices, Power PLACE: SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON DATE: 17-18 JANUARY 2020 SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS (250 WORDS) HERE Keynotes: Professor Lydia Liu (Columbia University), Professor Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo) Despite the recognition that the study of ‘world politics’ must deal with the reality of multiple worlds, the academic field of International Relations has, […]

Constructing the ‘Public Intellectual’ in the Premodern World Dates: 5-6 September 2019 Location: Chancellors Hotel, Manchester, UK Link: http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/public-intellectual/plenary-speakers/#fahmy Registration: 6th May 2019 – 30th August 2019 (http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/public-intellectual/#registration) Description: A two-day conference co-hosted by the Genealogies of Knowledge project, the Division of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. A […]

Specialists in the Translation Industry: Across Genres and Cultures Date: 23 May 2019 Location: University of Palermo, Italy Link: http://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/scienzeumanistiche/str/sottotitolaggiopersordiedaudiodescrizioneperciechi/.content/documenti/3-programma-analitico.pdf The Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo takes great pleasure in announcing the fourth edition of the International Symposium on Translation, which will be held on May 23rd at the Complesso Monumentale di Sant’Antonino. The symposium, entitled Specialists […]

Le Deuxième Sexe Seventy Years On: Reading Beauvoir around the World Location: Emory University Conference Center, Atlanta, USA Dates: 25-26 October 2019 Link: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/cfp.html Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University) Professor Nancy Bauer (Tufts University) Call for Papers: Seventy years following its publication in France, Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) remains a fundamental source of philosophical feminist knowledge, […]

Worldmaking on Stage and the Work of Theatre Translation Beyond the Stage Location: King’s College London Date: 30th July 2019 Link: https://ootwfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/171/2019/05/Out-of-the-Wings_Forum_2019_May-2019-Call-for-Presenters.pdf CALL FOR PRESENTERS Following the success of Worldmaking on Stage: Theatre Translation Research as Practice held as part of the 2018 Out of the Wings Festival, Out of the Wings is once again coming together with Language Acts […]