LINGUIST List 14.2754

Mon Oct 13 2003

Calls: Translation/Seoul, Korea; General Ling/Greece

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  • kearns, IATIS: Translation and the Construction of Identity
  • staurou, Generative Linguistics in the Old World

    Message 1: IATIS: Translation and the Construction of Identity

     Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:01:51 +0000
    From: kearns <kearnspro.onet.pl>
    Subject: IATIS: Translation and the Construction of Identity


    IATIS: Translation and the Construction of Identity Date: 12-Aug-2004 - 14-Aug-2004 Location: Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Contact: Sung Hee Kirk Contact Email: iatissookmyung.ac.kr Meeting URL: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~lbowker/iatisconf/iatisconfmain.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: Translation

    Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2003

    Meeting Description:

    The conference will mark the launch of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), a global forum designed to enable scholars from different regional and disciplinary backgrounds to debate issues relating to translation and other forms of intercultural communication.

    The conference will mark the launch of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), a global forum designed to enable scholars from different regional and disciplinary backgrounds to debate issues relating to translation and other forms of intercultural communication.

    Ongoing internationalization and networking, increasing population mobility, mass migration and rapidly developing communication technologies all involve crosscultural representation of one kind or another. Mediation is provided by translators and interpreters in some cases. In others, it takes a variety of less explicit forms and hence remains largely untheorized and under-researched.

    Institutions and individual researchers across the world have been making questions of globalization and multiculturalism part of their scholarly agenda and setting up programmes to investigate them. Translation studies is now an established discipline in many parts of the world. Intercultural studies is emerging as an area of study in its own right.

    To date, however, no single scholarly association represents the interests of academics and researchers in these rapidly growing fields across the world. Existing organizations tend to be restricted in their aims and scope, whether to the professional development of translators and interpreters, to certain geographical areas, or to the narrower field of translation. At the same time, issues of translation and intercultural communication feature only occasionally in the conferences and publications of scholarly associations in such fields as anthropology, comparative literature, or pragmatics. Hence the need for a worldwide, broadly based association encompassing both translation and intercultural studies.

    To mark the launch of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), Sookmyung Women�Euro(tm)s University in Seoul, Korea, is hosting an international conference with an appropriately international and pressing theme: Translation and the Construction of Identity. �Euro~Translation�Euro(tm) is used here generically to cover written translation, oral interpreting, audiovisual translation and translation in ethnography, among other forms of crosscultural mediation. Contributions covering forms of intercultural communication other than translation are invited.

    The conference themes include the following:

    � The construction and maintenance of national, religious and ethnic identity

    � Power, diplomacy and culture in international relations

    � The intellectual effects of globalisation

    � Negotiating identities across cultures: migration, gender, asylum

    � Self and Other in crosscultural encounters

    � The impact of institutional identities on translation and crosscultural research

    These themes may be approached from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including various strands of linguistics, pragmatics, literary theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and media studies, among others.

    Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30 November 2003

    Notification of Acceptance: 15 January 2004

    Length of Abstracts: 300 words

    Language of the conference: English

    Format of submission: by email, fax or post

    Email: iatissookmyung.ac.kr

    Fax: +822-710-9380 (Attn: Sung Hee Kirk)

    Post:

    Sung Hee Kirk Division of English Language & Literature Sookmyung Women's University

    53-12 Chungpa-Dong 2-Ka

    Yongsan-Ku, Seoul, Korea 140-742

    Message 2: Generative Linguistics in the Old World

     Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 03:19:06 +0000
    From: staurou <stauroulit.auth.gr>
    Subject: Generative Linguistics in the Old World


    Generative Linguistics in the Old World Short Title: GLOW

    Date: 18-Apr-2004 - 21-Apr-2004 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Contact: Melita Stavrou Contact Email: stauroulit.auth.gr Meeting URL: http://glow.uvt.nl

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2003

    Meeting Description:

    GLOW 2004--Second call for abstracts The GLOW Conference will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2004. The The GLOW Colloquium will take place from April 19 to April 21, preceded by three workshops on April 18. The theme of the Colloquium is free. The three workshops will be on (1) Tense, Aspect, Modality, (2) Theoretical approaches to language contact and (3) Markedness in Phonology.

    Invited speakers: Noam Chomsky (MIT), Sabine Iatridou (MIT), Donca Steriade (MIT). The deadline for submissions for the Colloquium and the workshops is December, 1st.

    This is the second call. The description of the workshops and information for the submission of abstracts can be obtained at the GLOW website http://glow.uvt.nl or the local organiser's webpage at: www.auth.gr/del/GLOW2004.