CFP--Translation Studies

Thu Feb 11 15:59:46 UTC 2010

Isn't this a case of 'Humanities Lite'?

>International Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers
>
>"Shifting Paradigms: How Translation Transforms the Humanities"
>
>October 14-16, 2010
>
>The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>Levis Faculty Center
>
>Organizers:
>
>*The Center for Translation Studies of the University of Illinois at Urbana-
>Champaign
>*The Université Denis-Diderot, Paris, France
>
>Summary
>
>This conference will convene scholars and practitioners to present state-of-
>the-art research on translation and the humanities. In particular, we seek to
>assess if, and how, academic disciplines comprising the humanities consider
>translation to be constitutive of their practice.
>
>Translation scholars have called for  a paradigm shift in defining the
>relationship between translation and the humanities.  While it is acknowledged
>that a large share of our common knowledge is conveyed through translation,
>too little has been said about the way knowledge 
>itself is built and circulated,
>particularly in the domain of interpretive disciplines.
>
>A focus of this conference will be to assess whether and how this shift is
>actually taking place, by reviewing:
>
>a) How the shift of translation theory away from a Eurocentric perspective may
>impact the various disciplines in the humanities 
>that work on and with cultural
>transfer;
>
>b) The ways in which translation itself  transforms the humanities.
>
>The conference will address these questions by focusing on the nexus of
>theory, practice, and institutional settings in 
>which translation takes place. The
>gathering aims to foster theoretical frameworks through which to account for
>the cultural and linguistic determinants of the 
>various humanistic disciplines,
>building upon such concepts as, for instance, the dislocation of culture (H.
>Bhabha), the ethnocentric violence of 
>translation (L. Venuti), the experience of
>the foreign (A. Berman), and the dissymmetry of cultural transfer.  We are
>especially interested in papers that bring theoretical sophistication and
>historical research to bear on practical issues of writing, reading, and
>publishing translations as well as their uses in academic institutions.
>
>Keynotes and Panel Distribution
>
>Plenary Address:
>
>Catherine Porter, President, Modern Language Association and director of the
>2009 MLA Presidential Initiative, « The Tasks of Translation in the Global
>Context. »
>
>Keynote presentations will frame the topics for thematic panels.
>
>
>Keynote - A New Geography : Translation and the Dislocation of a Eurocentric
>Perspective
>Speaker : Jean-Noël Robert, professeur à l'Ecole pratique des hautes études
>
>                 Suggested topics :
>
>*              Language Domination and New Experiences of the Foreign
>*              Recalling the Leading Role of 
>Translation in the History of Sciences
>*              Translation and Popular Culture in an Era of Globalization
>*              Translation and the Transfer of New Ideas and Concepts
>*              Between Languages : 
>Anthropological and Psychological Dimensions
>of Translation
>*              Non-European Contributions to Translation Theory
>
>
>Keynote - « Genealogies of Theory and Practice : Jerome and the Institutions
>of
>Translation »
>Speaker : Lawrence Venuti, Temple University
>
>                 Suggested topics:
>
>*              Changing Relations between Translation Theory and Practice
>*              Pedagogies of Translation and their Conceptual Bases
>*              Reading, Teaching and Publishing Translated Texts
>*              The Institutional Sites of Translation
>*              Translation as a Transformative Factor of Disciplines
>*              The Role of Translation in the 
>Understanding of Cultural Transfers
>
>
>Preliminary Call for Papers
>
>Proposals are invited from scholars and practitioners of translation, whatever
>their discipline and academic affiliation,  for 
>individual papers (30 minutes),
>20-minute presentations on panels of three speakers (90 minutes), and
>performance events. The conference languages are English and French.
>Conference papers will be published online.
>
>Please send proposals to translation at illinois.edu and include:
>
>Name/s and academic or institutional affiliations and titles of participants
>Paper or Panel Title
>Abstract (maximum 300 words)
>Contact information (email)
>
>Dates:
>
>Proposal submissions: April 15, 2010
>A final conference announcement and program will be published on June 15,
>2010
>
>University of Illinois Organizing Committee:
>Elizabeth Lowe, Associate Professor and Director, Center for   Translation
>Studies (elowe at illinois.edu)
>Patricia Phillips Batoma, Lecturer, Center for Translation Studies
>(pphillip at illinois.edu)
>Reinhard Mayer, Visiting  Professor, Center for Translation Studies
>(rmayer at illinois.edu)
>
>Anastasia Lakhtikova, Lecturer, Center for Translation Studies   (Conference
>Coordinator) (alakhtik at illinois.edu)
>
>Scientific Committee:
>
>Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois
>Fethi Benslama, Université Paris-Diderot, Professeur, UFR Sciences humaines
>cliniques
>Prof. Antoine Cazé ,Université Paris-Diderot, Professeur, UFR Etudes
>anglophones
>Wail Hassan, Associate Professor, Comparative 
>and World Literature , University
>of Illinois
>Claire Joubert, Professeur, Université Paris 8
>Jean-René Ladmiral, Professeur émérite, Université Paris X Nanterre
>Dr. Rainier Lanselle ,Université Paris-Diderot, 
>Maître de conferences, UFR Asie
>Orientale
>Jean-Philippe Mathy, Head, Department of Comparative and World  Literature,
>University of Illinois
>Frédéric Ogée, Université Paris-Diderot, Professeur, UFR Etudes anglophones
>Rajeshwari Pandharipande, Professor, Departments of Linguistics and  
>Religious Studies, University of Illinois
>Emmanuel Poisson, Université Paris-Diderot, Maître de conférences, HDR, UFR
>Asie Orientale
>Joyce Tolliver, Associate Professor, Spanish, Gender and Womens  Studies,
>University of Illinois
>Lawrence Venuti, Temple University
>
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