26.1091, Calls: Translation/UK

Wed Feb 25 21:18:45 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1091. Wed Feb 25 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1091, Calls: Translation/UK

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:18:08
From: Nozomi Abe [N.Abe at uea.ac.uk]
Subject: Untranslatability

Full Title: Untranslatability 

Date: 21-Nov-2015 - 22-Nov-2015
Location: University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Wanda Jozwikowska
Meeting Email: translationsymposium at uea.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Translation 

Call Deadline: 26-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

The symposium aims to explore new perspectives and conceptualisations of untranslatability which go beyond traditional comparisons of target texts with their sources. The issue of untranslatability is an important topic to address in light of current debates surrounding world literature, but the spectre of untranslatability has haunted translation theory since its inception.

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Theo Hermans (UCL)
Prof. Kirsten Malmkjær (University of Leicester)
Dr Joanna Drugan (UEA)
Dr Duncan Large (UEA)

Call for Papers:

Please send proposals of no more than 250 words (along with bibliographical references and a short biographical note) for 20-minute papers to translationsymposium at uea.ac.uk by Tuesday, 26 May, 2015. If you would like to offer a poster presentation, please print it at your home institution. The poster should be A1 portrait (59.4 cm wide x 84.1 cm high).

Please address all correspondence to:

Wanda Jozwikowska 
translationsymposium at uea.ac.uk
School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ

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