30.3083, Calls: Arabic, Standard; Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Philosophy of Lang, Socioling, Translation/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.3083, Calls: Arabic, Standard; Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Philosophy of Lang, Socioling, Translation/United Kingdom

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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:42:51
From: Nancy Hawker [nancy.hawker at aku.edu]
Subject: Arabic for Gender Practical Views on Gendered Language in Human Rights, Education, and Policy Contexts

 
Full Title: Arabic for Gender Practical Views on Gendered Language in Human Rights, Education, and Policy Contexts 

Date: 13-Dec-2019 - 13-Dec-2019
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Nancy Hawker
Meeting Email: ismc.governance at aku.edu
Web Site: https://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=1118&Title=Call%20for%20Papers%20-%20Arabic%20for%20Gender 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to form a frame in which academics exchange knowledge about
gendered language with human rights practitioners and policy-makers in a
developing conversation.

Gender and its representation in language are of paramount current importance.
This is also true for Arabic at a time of globally changing norms on violence
against women and against LGBTQ people. The language that communicates the
realities of gender for Arabic-speaking stakeholders, including translations
from and to Arabic, are central to policy responses and to the development of
educational materials. However, the language itself, and how to understand it,
is often taken for granted. Arabic is a gendered language, and some of the
debates regarding gender-free formulations, like those discussions surrounding
French, German, Spanish, Persian, and Turkish, have started in Arab
practitioner, but not academic, circles. The problem of gendered formulations
which prefer masculine forms poses a challenge for translation into English in
particular, because English does not present grammatical gender in the same
way as Arabic. English is the language of global governance and the language
of human rights campaigning, and so the place of translation between Arabic
and English needs to be considered in the policy context. Human rights
stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa, and women and LGBTQ people
in particular, to some extent rely for political recognition on the mediation
of their voices and narratives through non-governmental organisations (NGOs),
and on gradual social change through education. The terminology and the
sociology of this mediation will be examined in this workshop, in
presentations and applied exercises looking at gender both in texts and in
translators’ experiences.

Invited Speakers:

- Prof Hilary Footitt (University of Reading).
- Prof Islah Jad (Bir Zeit University).
- Representatives of campaigning human rights organisations and UK-based
policy-makers.

Time and Venue
13 December 2019
Atrium Conference Room,
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN


Call for Papers:

The Governance Programme (AKU-ISMC) at the Aga Khan University Institute for
the Study of Muslim Civilisations invites papers on Arabic translations of
texts produced by non-governmental organisations, educators, and
policy-makers, from perspectives that highlight gender both in discourse and
in the interpersonal contexts of translation/interpreting:

- What forms of Arabic grammatical gender are available for discourses
conveying feminist and LGBTQ[1]-rights-oriented messaging? How can these forms
be translated into English or other languages, which present grammatical
gender differently? Do translations from English or other languages affect
Arabic discourses on feminism and LGBTQ rights?
- What does discourse reveal about policies and practices around gender
inclusivity, fairness, or neutrality in the Middle East and North Africa? What
roles do political, educational and human rights actors and texts play in
promoting such policies and practices?
- What discourses enable the political recognition of Arabic-speaking human
rights stakeholders who have experienced violence against women and against
LGBTQ people? How do translators and interpreters participate in the politics
of recognition and rights campaigning?

Invited Speakers:

- Prof Hilary Footitt (University of Reading).
- Prof Islah Jad (Bir Zeit University).
- Representatives of campaigning human rights organisations and UK-based
policy-makers.

Please send abstracts of 500 words (excluding bibliography) by 10 September
2019 to: ismc.governance at aku.edu

Notifications of acceptance decisions will be sent out by 25 September 2019

A limited fund to support scholars who do not have access to institutional
funding will be available to cover some travel and accommodation costs. Please
indicate if you need this financial support when applying.

Organiser:

This conference is organised by AKU-ISMC's Governance Programme. The
Governance Programme’s annual workshops and conferences on a range of themes
explore how Muslim societies develop political systems that promote public
welfare, achieve popular legitimacy and recognise minority rights in a time
marked by heated debates over tradition, religion and modernity.
AKU-ISMC conveners: Nancy Hawker, Gianluca Parolin




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