Category: Events

RETRANSLATION IN CONTEXT IV Dates: 23-24 May 2019 Venue: Comillas Pontifical University Madrid, Spain Website: http://eventos.comillas.edu/17555/section/14944/international-conference-on-retranslation-in-context-iv.html Retranslation is essentially “the act of translating a work that has previously been translated into the same language” and “the result of such an act, i.e. the retranslated text itself” (Tahir Gürçağlar, 2009: 233). Research in this field has expanded considerably since the “Retranslation […]

Translation Beyond the Margins Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Doha, Qatar March 26th – 27th, 2019 Call for Papers Translation, by nature, deals with margins. Translators and interpreters still hold a marginal position in society, as they often work in the shadow, and go unseen, despite the fact […]

Constructing the ‘Public Intellectual’ in the Premodern World Co-hosted by Genealogies of Knowledge & Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK 5-6 September 2019 First call for papers http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/public-intellectual/ A notable feature of intellectual history has been the role of translation in the evolution and contestation of key cultural concepts, including those involved in the negotiation of […]

Translation as Political Act Perugia, 9-10 May   Conference website: http://home.translationaspoliticalact.net/   Organisers: International Conference at the University of Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche in collaboration with the Genealogies of Knowledge project (University of Manchester)  Call for Papers: Translation, both in the restricted sense of interlinguistic rewriting and the broader sense of a set of cultural and political activities, has […]

CFP: International Conference on “Western Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship” Date: 23-24 May 2019 Venue: Lingnan University The deadline for submission of application (with 300 words abstract for individual paper or 1200 words for panel proposal, and biographical notes) is Tuesday 30 October 2018. Introduction: This conference invites proposals for individual papers or panels that initiate in-depth dialogues between […]

Dubbing at Translating Bollywood in Europe: A colloquium The ever-growing distribution of Bollywood films worldwide, and in Europe, brings into focus the translational practices of dubbing and subtitling as crucial elements that affect the reception of this cinema abroad, as well as the role they play as cultural filters of one culture to another. In the past few years, the […]

Call for Papers: Paradoxes and Misunderstandings in Cultural Transfers Dates: 22-24 May 2019 Venue : Collège Érasme, Place Blaise Pascal 1, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique/Belgium Confirmed keynotes : Elke Brems (KU Leuven) Diana Roig-Sanz (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)   Organising committee: Julie Crombois (FNRS, UC Louvain) Dirk Delabastita (U Namur) Maud Gonne (FNRS, U Namur/UC Louvain) Hubert Roland (FNRS, UC Louvain) […]

Translation and Global English: Forms of Academic Writing in China Guest Speaker: Prof. Leo Tak-Hung Chan from Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China) Time and Date: 2: 00 p.m., 28 September 2018 Venue: Room 218, Yang Yongman Building Abstract: How does a world in which English is the academic lingua franca impact the humanities scholar? For Chinese (non-Anglophone) scholars, there are […]

Translation, Interpreting and Culture: Old Dogmas, New Approaches (?) Nitra, Slovakia, September 26-28, 2018   *REGISTRATION FOR NON-PRESENTING PARTICIPANTS OPENED BY 10 SEPTEMBER 2018 Organized by Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia The […]