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Teaching Translation: Challenges, Ideas, Solutions

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Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:47pm
Melina Masterson / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Translation is an essential and indispensable skill for foreign language students. Through translation, they have the opportunity not only to reflect upon and deeply understand cultural and linguistic aspects of the target language, but they are also capable of compare it with the source culture and language. It is a linguistic exercise, a creative process, as well as an opportunity for cultural immersion and a creative process. However, teaching a translation class or simply integrating translation activities into the language classroom comes with myriad pedagogical challenges for the instructor.

Al-Kīmiyā - Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT) Call for Papers for Issue Number 25

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 1:32pm
Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Call for Papers for Issue Number 25

 

The issue 25 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.

Submission Guidelines

Black European Studies Special Session

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 1:15pm
University of Nebraska at Omaha
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

The 49th European Studies Concerence, which will be held on October 3-4, 2024, both online and in person at the University of Nebraska Omaha, welcomes papers on European topics in all disciplines.

Founded in 1975, our yearly, interdisciplinary conference draws participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad. Areas of interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues and prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, music, geography, theater, and film.

This year we will also offer special panels on the following topics:

Deadline Extended: Pornographic Adaptations and Translations

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 1:14pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Palm Springs, Nov. 7-10, 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

In keeping with PAMLA's conference theme of "Translation in Action," this session invites papers that examine questions of translation and adaptation relevant to pornographic media, including but not limited to film and video, writing, and performance. I welcome papers covering any relevant period, topic, and method, from textual analysis to cultural histories to studies of pornographic production and consumption. Pornography provides an exemplary terrain on which to engage questions of adaptation as the eagerness of pornographers to adapt both low and high cultural works, from Twinklight (2010) to Spank Me, Mr. Darcy (2013), remains a reliable source of public fascination, humor, and outrage.

Translation as an Art of Failure

updated: 
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 4:44pm
Michael Roberson
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED:  JUNE 16, 2024

PAMLA 2024:  Palm Springs, November 7-10, 2024 "Translation in Action"

Translation as an Art of Failure

The Concept of Visual Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:23pm
Johanna Drucker, PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

CFP for PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Thursday November 7 through Sunday November 10, Palm Springs, California (Margaritaville Resort) 

 

Session Title: The Concept of Visual Translation, Johanna Drucker, Chair 

 

Abstract: The translation of texts is a familiar, if fraught, act that is the subject of considerable thoughtful examination. But is there an equivalent for visual works? This panel looks at examples of cross-cultural or temporal reworkings of images to challenge certain assumptions about self-evident nature of images and even of vision itself. 

Call for Papers: The Pagan Beowulf: Alternatives to the Usual Beowulf

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention

October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2024

Odin asked, “Can you Read the Runes?” How to Read the Runic Letters in Part I of Beowulf

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Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention

October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Join us in Las Vegas this October, where we will defy the odds and time, and you can learn how to read some of the 418 (and counting) letter runes found in the first third of Beowulf.

This groundbreaking, ninety-minute session is the first of its kind in teaching how one can detect and decipher between two alphabets that use the same letters, with one being just a letter and the other being a letter that represents a word. Unlike Odin, you will not have to give up an eye.

All attendees will receive a letter rune chart.

Translating the Fetish: Lifting the Veil and Demystifying Capitalism

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:34pm
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is helpful in understanding how the fetish animates produced commodities to have a mysterious power of their own, in which power is obscured, mystified, and alienated, holding sway over people in the dominion of capitalism. In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives, Lorgia García-Peña asserts that “to translate thus presents us with the possibility of seeing the Other. This act of seeing is also an act of recognition that can contradict hegemonic knowledge.” The work of translating the fetish can thus be presented as a means of revealing real relations hidden by the fetish, an antihegemonic project of deconstructing systems of capitalism and oppression.

Bodies in Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 10:15pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

From the blazon of Elizabethan poetry to the Human Genome Project, humans have been writing the body for centuries. In his book Barthes, Roland Barthes ponders the translation of the body from flesh to paper, stating, “To write the body. Neither the skin, nor the muscles, nor the bones, nor the nerves, but the rest: an awkward, fibrous, shaggy, raveled thing, a clown’s coat” (180). In his process of writing the body, Barthes strips away surfaces to reveal something other, something that he finds more representative of himself or his essence.

The Translator at Work: Neutrality in Translation and Interpreting

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
PAMLA Annual Conference 2024, Nov. 7-10, Palm Springs, California
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 5, 2024

« The Translator at Work: Neutrality in Translation and Interpreting »

Translators and interpreters are expected to be neutral mediators who facilitate dialogue and enable understanding and cooperation between speakers who do not speak the same language. Research has shown, however, that the transfer of information from one language to another is rarely performed without making certain contributions that go beyond the mere rendition of the message being transferred. Translation is a product of cross-cultural interactions that requires linguistic and at times, sociopolitical or even ideological changes.

Medieval Literature Panel at PAMLA (November 2024)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 2:20pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 121st Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, Palm Springs, California, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2024


Abstract: 
Medieval Literature will study multiple aspects of medieval literature, with special consideration for work that engages with the conference theme, "Translation in Action." This panel welcomes a broad interpretation of the theme as it relates to Medieval literature as well as the field of medieval studies itself. We also welcome work that considers translation and other similar frameworks.

 

Classics (Latin)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:37am
PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

121st PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024

Proposals:

Please use the PAMLA CFP page and submission system, which can be found here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP.

 

PAMLA 2024 CFP_African American Literature and Culture Session

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 2024 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 2024 PAMLA Conference will be held in Palm Springs, CA from November 6-10. We invite abstract submissions to a guaranteed, standing session on comics and graphic narratives; abstracts can be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

The “African American Literature and Culture” session is open to all papers that explore some aspect of African American literature, media, or culture, but we are particularly interested in papers attuned to some facet of the conference theme, “Translation in Action.”

 Some topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

PAMLA conference 2024: Translating Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Building on the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel invites discussion on how Asia is represented and “translated” in modern and contemporary literature, literary criticism, and popular media, including, but not limited to, film, video games, visual novels, music, and fashion. Panelists are encouraged to engage with the following questions:

1. How is Asia and Asian-ness aesthetically and ideologically represented and “translated” by non-Asian authors and producers, e.g., Historia universal de la infamia (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges, La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Rob Marshall, and Civilization VI (2016) by Sid Meister and Firaxis Games?

Call for Essays: Living in Languages Journal

updated: 
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:30am
Living in Languages Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

 

Living in Languages

    traversing borders, disciplines, and mediums.

Inviting Submissions to Living in Languages Journal [ISSN: 2835-8074]

The editors of a scholarly journal, Living in Languages, are pleased to invite you to submit your work, investigations, or studies of translation for the upcoming issue. Living in Languages is an online open source, peer-reviewed graduate journal devoted to translation studies published and archived at the University at Albany. We are a multilingual and interdisciplinary publication, with editors from across the humanities and social sciences.

PAMLA 2024 Standing Panel: East-West Literary Relations

updated: 
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:25am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The distinction between East and West once held significant influence in knowledge production, ranging from voluminous travelogues from Western authors to the prosperity of Oriental Studies in academia of the 18th and 19th centuries. Postcolonial scholarship since the 1970s, including Said’s Orientalism and Spivak’s subaltern studies, sheds new light on the East/West distinction as a dynamic relationship, instead of two settled categories. As globalization significantly boosts the movement of humans, material goods, cultural products and texts, it gives rise to a wide range of imaginations, potentials, intellectual tools but meanwhile crises, conflicts and unequal distribution of power in the constantly changing geo-political landscapes.

 

Call for Research Papers in Translating Cultures

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:28pm
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)seeks to meet a growing need for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences that focuses on translating Arab cultures.

Early Scholars Publication Grants

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 11:31am
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Overview 

The Early Scholars Publication Grants, offered through the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) are intended to facilitateand support the publication and dissemination of outstanding graduate-level researchin a peer-reviewed academic publication. The Chair seeks to encourage graduate students to share their research and enhance intercultural dialogue as it relates to the Chair’s annual themes.  

 

PAMLA 2024 Call for Papers : Comparative Literature Session

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 11:31am
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

This Comparative Literature session, like its namesake discipline, strives to be broad, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. We therefore welcome proposals that touch on multiple works of literature and strive to make use of more than traditional comparative studies, borrowing analytic or interpretive practices from other disciplines such as philosophy, film and media studies, digital humanities, cultural or art history, etc.

This session seeks papers engaging with a wide variety of Comparative Literature topics, including perhaps, but not necessarily, papers exploring the main theme of this year's PAMLA conference, "Translation in Action," and/or other topics beyond that. The session also invites papers focusing on:

· World Literature

Literature and Emotion (PAMLA special session)

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:52pm
PAMLA Conference 2024, Palm Springs/CA (Nov. 6-10, 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Literary texts affect us emotionally. They can negotiate the ambiguities and complexities of emotions in a highly nuanced way and help readers to develop their "emotional literacy," that is the ability to read, understand and cope with one’s own emotions and those of others. Through modulations of narrative voice and focalization, literature can, for example, generate empathy or insight by allowing readers to reflect upon the emotional impasses, contradictions and precarities faced by marginalized or "othered" individuals or groups (e.g. recent media representations challenging the trope of the presumed "lack of empathy" of individuals on the Autism spectrum) and the cultural variability, historicity and social constructedness of emotions (e.g.

Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:47pm
Kaunas University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology together with the Lithuanian Museum of Education are organizing a scientific research conference that is aimed to discuss various aspects and issues about the rapid development of language industry and possibilities of artificial intelligence application that change the turn of scientific research, methodological approaches and, at the same time, increase the access of the society to information in native and foreign languages. 

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 1:59am
Turkish Shakespeares
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

Contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com 

 

Call for Chapters

 

Turkey has a long tradition of reading, translating and staging William Shakespeare’s plays as part of the country’s modernisation process. Yet, this long tradition has remained relatively obscure for the majority of both Turkish and non-Turkish academic and non-academic circles.

 

Conference The Global Novel: Bridging Material Objects and Forms

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Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
“The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” (Spanish Research Agency, PID2020-118610GA-I00), with the collaboration of the ERC Consolidator Grant project Ocean Crime Narratives -OCN (GA 101043711), and the Arts and
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Global Novel Research Project’s final conference gathers scholars pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition. The conference topic aligns with the project's objective. We are interested in a new, more integrated, and decentralized perspective in the study of the emergent genre of the global novel, defined as a narrative form that aspires to represent and think about the contemporary world from a global perspective. This new approach will help us better understand how the global novel contributes, discusses and builds global discourses through specific exploratory poetics. Simultaneously, it will help map the uneven circulation of these works within the literary space.

HEL and Writing Studies Presentation Thread at SHEL-13 Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:27pm
Studies in the History of the English Language Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We invite proposals for the second HEL (History of the English Language) and Writing Studies thread at the 13th Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) conference at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, October 17-20, 2024.

 

The HEL and Writing Studies thread will explore ways in which the study of language change and variation can contribute to rhetoric and writing studies, and vice versa. When proposing, keep in mind that the history of the English language extends from the origins of the language to very recent history, so proposals that engage contemporary language use through a historical lens are welcome. 

 

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