Apologies for cross-postings.

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Postgraduate Conference, 
entitled "With/out Theory: The Role of Theory in Translation Studies 
Research" to be held at University College, London in spring 2008.

Any enquiries should be directed to the contact details provided within 
the Call for Papers.

Thank you.
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Postgraduate Conference funded by the AHRC
Organised by the Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL

"With/out Theory: The Role of Theory in Translation Studies Research"
17-18 April 2008 at UCL

First Call for Papers

The theories currently in vogue in translation studies tend to be borrowed 
from other disciplines such as linguistics, sociology or postcolonial 
studies. Some theories offer a general framework or perspective, others 
come with methodologies attached. How useful are the prevailing theories 
as tools for understanding translation? Would a more directly translation-
based theory be more profitable for research? What is the connection 
between theory and methodology in specific projects?

This two-day conference, funded by the AHRC, aims to create a network of
research students working in Translation Studies in the Greater London 
area and provide a platform for them to discuss research methodology. 
Nevertheless, contributions by PhD-students from within the UK as well as 
international are equally welcome. Speakers will be allocated 20 mins. to 
present their work to peers and to a panel of experienced discussants. 
Alternatively, contributions may be made in the form of posters to be 
presented in an individual session.

Publication of Papers
Selected papers will be published in the online journal New Voices in
Translation Studies.

Abstracts
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words or details of a poster
presentation, including your contact details, by email to Daniela Almansi 
at [log in to unmask] (abstracts only. For general enquiry, see further
information) by 18 January 2008. Successful applicants will be informed in
February. The presenters will be required to submit their completed papers
before 28 March 2008.

We invite papers from all graduate students, who currently work in 
Translation Studies, Interpreting or related fields, on the following 
issues and beyond:

-        Translation as text: applying linguistic and literary theories to 
translation;
-        Translation in the digital age: science, technology and 
translation theory;
-        Multimedia translation: exploring audiovisual translation theory;
-        Intergeneric translation: theory and the crossing of genres in 
translation – text and screen, scripts and stage performance, music and 
arts in translation;
-        Theory of interpreting;
-        Translation theory and other disciplines;
-        Situating translation: making sense of ideology, society and the 
world in translation through sociological, postcolonial and cultural 
studies theories;
-        Solving conflicts? – translation and interpreting theories after 
9/11.
-        Conceptualising theory from translation history;
-        A new horizon of expectation: translation and reception theory;
-        Translator, agency and decision making: re-evaluating the 
communication approaches – shifts in translation, text-type and skopos 
theories;
-        Theory and the international community: theorising translation in 
a non-English speaking context;
-        Descriptive? Prescriptive? : rethinking norm theory and system-
oriented approaches;
-        The pedagogical approach: translator and interpreter training 
theories;
-        Translation, imitation, adaptation – how to judge? with/out 
theory?
-        Where angels fear to tread: negotiating the limit of theory in 
translation.
-        Off limits…? If? How? : ‘forging’ translation theory;
-        New trends in translation theory.

Key Dates
18 January 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts
February 2008: Notification of acceptance
February 2008: Registration opens
28 March 2008: Deadline for submission of papers
17-18 April 2008: Conference at UCL

Further Information
Further information and the programme of the conference will be released 
in due time on the website of the Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL:
www.ucl.ac.uk/cics. For general enquiry, please contact Gloria Lee at
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Organising Committee
Daniela Almansi
Phrae Chittiphalangsri
Gloria Lee
Dorothea Martens
Elaine Ng