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Date: 21 June 2018 Venue: Birmingham City University Title: Postgraduate Symposium on Cultural Translation Proposals are invited for a symposium at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, to explore questions of cultural translation in contemporary Media, Communication and Cultural Studies research. The one-day event will be held on Thursday 21 June 2018 and will be an opportunity for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers working in the area of media studies, cultural studies, translation studies, area studies, and related fields, to present their research. Although open to a wide range of responses, we are particularly interested in the following areas: * The role of cultural translation in culture studies and media studies * Critical perspectives on cultural translation as a concept/term * Intermediality, translation between different cultural forms, and adaptation * Cultural translators as/and/versus cultural intermediaries * Cultural translation and politics - including questions of erasure, representation, and appropriation * Cultural translation in relation to ideas of 'third space', 'hybridity' and the 'in-between' * Failures in cultural translation Keynote Lecture: Dr Sarah Maitland, Goldsmiths, University of London. Proposals for papers should be approx 300 words in length and should be sent to [log in to unmask] no later than 16 May 2018 with a short bio-note. Postgraduates, Early Career Researchers, and junior academics welcome. Dr James Hodgson Cultural Studies Early Career Researcher: Web<https://manchester.academia.edu/JamesNHodgson> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/JN_Hodgson?lang=en> Cultural Translation at BCMCR: Blog series<http://bcmcr.org/culturaltranslation/> | Upcoming events<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bcmcr-research-events-8413375237> -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------