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TRANSIT
http://german.berkeley.edu/transit
ISSN 1551-9627

The editors of TRANSIT -- a new internet-based,
multidisciplinary
journal
published by the German Department at the University
of California,
Berkeley
-- invite submissions for its 2006 issue on the topic
"Translation and
Mobility." Papers for the third round, to appear in
Winter 2006, need
to be
submitted by September 30, 2006.

TRANSIT is the first refereed internet journal in
German Studies
responding
to the visual turn in literary studies. TRANSIT seeks
to push
boundaries
both of traditional scholarship and of print
publication. The journal's
online format enables authors to integrate multimedia
content (images,
film
clips, spoken text, and music) into their work. We
welcome critical and
creative work, in English or German, from all areas in
which mobility
and
transition are major forces, from translation to
travelogues and other
forms
of cultural transfer.

Special Topic 2006: Translation and Mobility
Submissions for the Special Topic should focus on
translation, its
relationship to mobility and cultural transfer.

Possible topics for the "Translation and Mobility"
issue include:

-- The translation of mobility. Translation and
narratives of mobility.
-- Translation and identity: translation as a vehicle
of subjectivity,
intersubjectivity, and/or transnational
subjectivities.
-- Translation and media theory: how is translation
deployed in
different
media, e.g. subtitles in film, internet translation
machines, etc.
-- Translation studies and linguistics, e.g.
translation as a catalyst
of
linguistic change: does translation function as a
"transformative"
force or
rather as a "conservative" force? How does translation
destabilize or
stabilize linguistic systems and hence, cultural
practices?
-- Translation and the mobility of images. Traveling
images.

Please submit your article to the editors at
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The deadline to be included in the third round is
September 30, 2006.



Special Topic 2007: Music and Communities
In addition, TRANSIT would like to announce the
Special Topic for 2007:
Music and Communities. Submissions for the first round
of this issue
will be
accepted at any time before January 15, 2007.

Submissions for the Special Topic should focus on
music and its role in
communal life and cultural identities within and
across communities.

Possible topics for the "Music and Communities" issue
include:

-- Musical setting as cultural transfer
-- Chamber music and the orchestration of the intimate
-- Symphony as public discourse
-- Ecstasy, mass experiences, and group emotions
-- Theories of modern classical music
-- Music and politics
-- Folk music and modernity
-- Popular music in various "German" communities
-- Music clubs and choirs
-- The importance of music in subcultures
-- Music as tool of social integration or expression
of resistance to
integration
-- Sociology of music, e.g. Adorno, Bourdieu
-- Musical performances and emotional communities

The deadline to be included in the first round of the
2007 issue is
January
15, 2007


Open Forum:
In addition to the Special Topic, each issue of
TRANSIT offers an Open
Forum
for scholarly and creative work on issues of
transition and travel in
classical German works, from Parzival and Wilhelm
Meisters Wanderjahre
to
the road movies of Wim Wenders. We are also interested
in
multidisciplinary
analysis of non-canonical texts, debates, new media,
and material
culture.
We appreciate comparative studies that frame German
examples within
larger
theoretical and historical concerns, and we especially
encourage essays
that
make creative use of available multimedia
technologies.

We consider submissions for the Open Forum at any
time.

If you have questions, please contact us at
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