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*With apologies for cross-postings* Registration has now opened for the conference 'Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas' at the University of Warwick. Full details can be found at the following link: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas University of Warwick, 22-23 January 2016 Translation was an integral part of the literary practice of many twentieth-century writers and thinkers. It provided them with such an important lens for viewing other cultures and their own past that, as Steven Yao argues, the period of modernism could well be dubbed ‘an age of translations’. This conference seeks to explore the role of translation in the development of literary, religious, and philosophical responses to the new realities of the twentieth century, in particular, the disappearance of a stable religious framework and the traumas of totalitarianism, the World Wars, and the Holocaust. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, early career researchers and doctoral candidates working in translation studies, comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, and cultural memory studies. Confirmed keynote speakers Prof. Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick) Prof. Jean Boase-Beier (University of East Anglia) Prof. Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh)