Interdisciplinary Conference: Call for Papers
Queen's University Belfast, 8-10 April 2005
?Betwixt and Between?: the places and spaces of cultural translation
Since the early Nineties, cultural translation has become a central
concern of interdisciplinary scholarship in the Humanities. Indeed,
it has often been seen as a characteristic form of interdisciplinary
practice, with anthropologists, creative writers and dramatists, and
literary and cultural historians assessing the role of translation in,
among other subjects, practices of intercultural exchange, the
rhetoric of state formation and political conflict and the elaboration
of local, national and international identities. ?Betwixt and
Between?: the places and spaces of cultural translation hopes to
extend these discussions with a specific focus on locality, place
and space. What ? and where ? are the spaces opened up by
cultural translation? To what extent does translation define a space
within which hybridized cultural practices might develop? Do
specific places contribute to the possibility, or otherwise, of cultural
translation? Can translation offer a locale for the elaboration of new
artistic, cultural and political forms? In an historical moment when
cultural understanding is at a premium, might the spaces of
translation offer locations for political, ethical and methodological
self-reflection, in the Academy and further afield?
Plenary speakers include:
Peter Bush, Ciaran Carson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Michael Cronin,
David Johnston
Proposals by 30 Jan 2005 to [log in to unmask]
A selection of papers will be published shortly after the conference.
Further details on http://www.qub.ac.uk/betwixt/
In association with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
Gaby Saldanha
SALIS - CTTS
Dublin City University
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