Betwixt and Between II: Memory and Cultural Translation

Queen's University Belfast, April 18-21, 2006

The School of English and School of Languages, Literatures and Arts, =20
in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry invite papers =20=

on:

Memory and Cultural Translation

In recent years, the cultural and historical work of memory has been =20
of considerable interest to scholars working in all areas of the =20
humanities.

This conference wishes to explore ways in which translation and cross-=20=

cultural exchange are both agents of, and obstacles to, processes of =20
memorialization. Topics the conference might cover include:
=C2=B7 Translation and / as historiography
=C2=B7 Translating historical writing
=C2=B7 Translation as a metaphor for memory
=C2=B7 Translating conflict
=C2=B7 Translation and national memory
=C2=B7 Translation, philology, the canon
=C2=B7 Memory, ethnography, translation
=C2=B7 Translation and the rupture of belonging
=C2=B7 Memory and its reproductions
=C2=B7 Translating violence
=C2=B7 Translating the political
=C2=B7 Translating the visual

Proposals of no more than 500 words should be sent by DECEMBER 15th, =20
2005 to:

Dr Stephen Kelly
Memory and Cultural Translation
School of English
Queen=E2=80=99s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN

Or by email to: betwixt_at_qub.ac.uk

The conference will generate a second volume of essays
under the =E2=80=98Betwixt and Between=E2=80=99 rubric.

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Dr Stephen Kelly
School of English
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN

Tel. 00442890 973952
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/

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