17.31, Calls: Applied Ling/Cameroon;Translation/Denmark

Tue Jan 10 22:48:24 UTC 2006

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Subject: 17.31, Calls: Applied Ling/Cameroon;Translation/Denmark

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Date: 10-Jan-2006
From: Charles Nah < remissco at yahoo.co.uk >
Subject: Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference) 

2)
Date: 09-Jan-2006
From: Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast < h.gerzymisch at mx.uni-saarland.de >
Subject: Audiovisual Translation Scenarios 

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:46:56
From: Charles Nah < remissco at yahoo.co.uk >
Subject: Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference) 

Full Title: Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference) 
Short Title: SignPost (UNIYAO I) 

Date: 13-Apr-2006 - 15-Apr-2006
Location: University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon 
Contact Person: Charles N. Nah
Meeting Email: signpost_de at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.freetocharities.org.uk/yaounde/conference2.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Translation 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2006 

Meeting Description:

This three-day conference seeks to offer postgrads the unique chance to present their research on the current trends in Language and Literature. Scheduled for Yaounde, the political and academic heart of Cameroon, this conference will bring together International and local Postgraduate students, to explore the political, cultural, and historical movements that have influenced linguistic and literary trends in the past century and beyond. Special focus will be on:  nationalism, nationhood and ethnicity. 

SignPost, the Post-Graduate Literary Forum of the Department of English, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, is organising a conference on the theme: Dislocating the centre in language and literature. 

Participants are requested to forward a 300 word abstract on but not limited to, the following:

Sub Themes for Language 

- The Adoptability and Adaptability of English around the world
- Language and expanding function
- Varieties of English and pedagogic concerns
- Sub varieties of English
- Recent trends in English usage
- Language and Culture
- Monolingualism: Problems, Prospects and Challenges
- Language and Politics
- Language and Personality
- Bilingualism
- Translation

Sub Themes for Literature 

- Re-mapping/re-naming/re-creating the periphery
- Border crossing
- Literature and Revolution
- Hybridity
- Alterity
- Nationhood 
- Cultural diversity 
- Dispossession and re-dispossession

Please, send abstracts to signpost_de at yahoo.com 

Deadline 31st January 2006

Notification of accepted abstracts will be sent two weeks after the deadline. 
Registration fee - CFA 5.000 

Please direct any questions about the conference to 
signpost_de at yahoo.com
Tel: (237) 794 48 11 / (237) 734 25 15

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:47:01
From: Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast < h.gerzymisch at mx.uni-saarland.de >
Subject: Audiovisual Translation Scenarios 

Full Title: Audiovisual Translation Scenarios 
Short Title: MuTra 2006 

Date: 01-May-2006 - 05-May-2006
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast
Meeting Email: info at euroconferences.info
Web Site: http://www.euroconferences.info 

Linguistic Field(s): Translation 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2006 

Meeting Description:

Marie Curie Euroconference 'Audiovisual Translation Scenarios' 1 - 5 May, 2006, overall coordinator: Advanced Translation Research Center (ATRC) Saarland University/Germany, local host and partner: Henrik Gottlieb, Copenhagen University. The conference features multidimensional translation and interpreting in all its dimensions (hypertext translation, localization, written interpreting)with a focus on audiovisual translation scenarios ((live) subtitling, including HoH, audiodescription). The EU has provided funds for 45 young researchers in the field of multidimesnional translation to meet with international experts in the field. The conference is open to broadcasters, academics and practitioners. Details are continually updated under www.euroconferences.info 

Website:
http://www.euroconferences.info (Home and Copenhagen 2006)

PDF version of call descrption available under: 
http://www.euroconferences.info/pdf/2006-Call_for_Papers.pdf

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