Event: Interdisciplinary Conference: "Betwixt and Between", the places and spaces of cultural translation
Date and Venue: Queen's University Belfast, 8-10 April 2005
Short Description: Since the early Nineties, cultural translation has become a central concern of interdisciplinary scholarship in the Humanities. Indeed, it has often been seen as a characteristic form of interdisciplinary practice, with anthropologists, creative writers and dramatists, and literary and cultural historians assessing the role of translation in, among other subjects, practices of intercultural exchange, the rhetoric of state formation and political conflict and the elaboration of local, national and international identities. ?Betwixt and Between?: the places and spaces of cultural translation hopes to extend these discussions with a specific focus on locality, place
and space. What ? and where ? are the spaces opened up by cultural translation? To what extent does translation define a space within which hybridized cultural practices might develop? Do
specific places contribute to the possibility, or otherwise, of cultural translation? Can translation offer a locale for the elaboration of new artistic, cultural and political forms? In an historical moment when cultural understanding is at a premium, might the spaces of translation offer locations for political, ethical and methodological self-reflection, in the Academy and further afield?
Proposals by 30 Jan 2005 to place_translation@qub.ac.uk
A selection of papers will be published shortly after the conference.
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Contact Details: http://www.qub.ac.uk/betwixt/
Invited Speakers: Peter Bush, Ciaran Carson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Michael Cronin, David Johnston
Registration: http://www.qub.ac.uk/betwixt/
Posted by: Gaby Saldanha
on Nov 11, 04 | 11:48 am
