translation studies

SEDERI Yearbook

Call for Papers

SEDERI Yearbook welcomes articles, notes and reviews for its next issue.

SEDERI, Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, is an annual publication devoted to current criticism and scholarship on English Renaissance Studies. It is peer-reviewed by external referees, following a double-blind policy.

Areas of interest

Early Modern English Literature

Early Modern English History and Culture

Early Modern English Language

Extended deadline for submissions: January 31, 2019

Email your proposal to: ascf@uco.edu

• Conference date: April 5, 2019
• Venue: College of Business Building, University of Central Oklahoma

                       100 N University Dr.

                       Edmond, OK 73034

• Contact email: ascf@uco.edu

 Registration includes a luncheon featuring authentic Asian foods. 

Call for Papers: “Borders and Cross-Cultural Encounters”

March 1-2, 2019

DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 31, 2018

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Chris Lippard, University of Utah

The Southwest English Symposium (SWES) is a regional humanities conference held annually at Arizona State University. The conference provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with an opportunity to present original scholarship before an interdisciplinary audience. We encourage proposals from a diverse range of disciplines within the humanities and other disciplines.

Tales, fables, fragments, sketches, and other short literary forms have comprised the fabric of scary stories told and re-told, adapted, transformed, appropriated and re-appropriated. Their brevity is, and was often, central to their wider dissemination, and for the publication and democratisation of voices that might have otherwise remained unheard; allowing them to be accessed by those who might have otherwise been excluded. Much of their debt is, undoubtedly owed to the oral yarn, the fireside tale, the urban legend, and many have, and remain, connected to a diverse and rich visual culture.

Call for Book Chapters:

A critical edition of Halide Edib Adivar's serialized novels (1910-1961) in English translation is currently under consideration for publication. I am soliciting book chapters on:

-Halide Edib and women's literature

-Women, media, and the Turkish novel in twentieth-century Turkey

-Film adaptations and/or book illustrations of Halide Edib's novels

Please send inquiries, 500-word proposals and biographical information to

Iclal Vanwesenbeeck at vanwesen@fredonia.edu

Deadline: January 15, 2019

8th International Conference on Language Literature and Culture

"Struggle for Recognition" | 6-7 June 2019 | Brest,France

“Mapping Cultural Identities: Translations and Intersections” 25-26 May 2018/Bucharest, Romania 

Cartographies of Silence:

A Conference for Readers and Writers

23rd Annual CLIFF Conference

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

March 15-16, 2019

Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz

Submission Deadline: December 7, 2018

It was an old theme even for me:
Language cannot do everything–

-- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence”

“(Re)defining the Intersection: Hong Kong Textuality”

Interdisciplinary Conference at The University of Sheffield

and Creative Reading

24th January 2019

Abstract submission deadline November 10th 2018

Bringing together English Literatures, Translation, Creative Writing and Social Science scholarship, this conference examines how we represent Hong Kong space and people, past present and future, and implications Hong Kong’s political and cultural identities. 

Deadline of paper submission 
Vol.13 no.1 – 31 December 2018 

Lingua Cultura is an international journal, published in February, May, August and November. Lingua Cultura focuses on various issues spanning in the study of language, culture, and literature. The coverage of language includes linguistics and language teaching, the area of culture includes cultural studies and social studies, and the coverage of literature covers the analysis of novel, film, poem, and drama using the relevant theories and concepts.

Espaces de collaboration dans les littératures autochtones de l’île de la Tortue

World literature has a tremendous capacity to broaden literary canons, but, when taught without a focus on translation, can succumb to cultural deracination, philological bankruptcy, and “the worst tendencies of capitalism” (Damrosch and Spivak 456). The World Literature Pedagogical Spaces seminar addresses these concerns by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and teachers in literary studies, comparative literature, and translation. This roundtable’s goal is to diversify and exchange ideas on world literature in theory and practice, while developing sensitivity to translation in cross-cultural literary study and giving equal attention to scholarship, pedagogy, and praxis.

The resurgence in the early 2000s of “World Literature” as a theoretical framework and institutional practice was coeval with another capacious category also prominent in the debates of those years: globalization.

The literature of ancient Greece and Rome has survived for thousands of years. As a result, Classical literary and philosophical works have served as a profound influence on the writings of subsequent time periods. Indeed, in many subsequent time periods, the ability to quote from Classical sources became a marker of status and intelligence. However, many works of ancient Greece and Rome are not wholly original, but in fact flaunt their use of source materials, citing earlier versions of myths and epics. Often, Classical and post-Classical authors would modify their source materials, and we are able to see them not only as writers, but as readers in their own right.

Is World Literature the new, upgraded version of Comparative Literature (Comp Lit 2.0) or rather an attenuated, impoverished version of the latter? What unites us, and what divides us, especially considering that many World Lit faculty are drawn from Comp Lit backgrounds?  How do we, practitioners in these fields, rethink these disciplines for the era when humanities as such are under constant attack? In this session, we hope to discuss our shared ground and our shared challenges.  This roundtable is organized by the NeMLA World Literature Working Group as a yearly forum for discussing theoretical and historical issues, pedagogy and curriculum, and new directions in the field of World  Literature.