CALL FOR PAPERS
DEALINE: MAY 15TH
Institute for Social, Cultural and Policy Research, University of Salford
and
Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading
Value and Visibility: Poetic Translations across Italy and Britain in the
Twentieth Century
September 10 and 11, 2004
Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Papers are sought for this two-day conference. The conference will create a
forum for scholarly debate on poetic translations in Italy and the UK during
the Twentieth Century, and aims to help reshape current research trends within
translation studies.
Three topics have been identified for debate:
1) the politics of translation (high culture versus popular culture;
commodification; mass education);
2) translation and the development of the literary language (relationships
between linguistic registers and social class and gender; the breakdown or the
endorsement of the opposition between literary and everyday language);
3) links between translation and community (the role of the translator as the
bridge between the foreign and the familiar; how translation defines
historical, social, and literary periodisation; editorial policies and their
relation to reading communities).
The conference will unite leading specialists in English, Italian, and
Comparative Literature and outstanding younger contributors on the subject. By
bringing together international scholars in London and developing material for
a published volume, this conference aims to encourage comparative research
across departments of English and Modern Languages and stimulate interest in
courses on translation studies.
Keynote Speakers:
* George Steiner (Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK)
* Lawrence Venuti (Temple University, USA)
* Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (University of Padua, Italy)
* Michael Schmidt (Carcanet Press; PN Review; Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK)
* Anna Dolfi (University of Florence, Italy)
* Jeffrey Wainwright (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
* Carla Locatelli (University of Trento, Italy)
Please send a 500 words abstract of your paper to [log in to unmask] and to
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Conference Organisers: Dr. Daniela La Penna (Dept. of Italian Studies,
University of Reading) and Dr. Daniela Caselli (School of English, Sociology,
Politics and Contemporary History, Institute for Social Cultural and Policy
Research, University of Salford)
Conference Venue: Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Studies,
University of London
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