LINGUIST List 17.31
Tue Jan 10 2006
Calls: Applied Ling/Cameroon;Translation/Denmark
Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows
<kevinlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Charles
Nah,
Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference)
2. Heidrun
Gerzymisch-Arbogast,
Audiovisual Translation Scenarios
Message 1: Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference)
Date: 10-Jan-2006
From: Charles Nah <remisscoyahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference)
Full Title: Dislocating the Centre in Language and Literature. (SignPost Postgraduate Conference)
Short Title: SignPost (UNIYAO I)
Date: 13-Apr-2006 - 15-Apr-2006
Location: University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon
Contact Person: Charles N. Nah
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.freetocharities.org.uk/yaounde/conference2.html
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Translation
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2006
Meeting Description:
This three-day conference seeks to offer postgrads the unique chance to present their research on the current trends in Language and Literature. Scheduled for Yaounde, the political and academic heart of Cameroon, this conference will bring together International and local Postgraduate students, to explore the political, cultural, and historical movements that have influenced linguistic and literary trends in the past century and beyond. Special focus will be on: nationalism, nationhood and ethnicity.
SignPost, the Post-Graduate Literary Forum of the Department of English, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, is organising a conference on the theme: Dislocating the centre in language and literature.
Participants are requested to forward a 300 word abstract on but not limited to, the following:
Sub Themes for Language
- The Adoptability and Adaptability of English around the world- Language and expanding function- Varieties of English and pedagogic concerns- Sub varieties of English- Recent trends in English usage- Language and Culture- Monolingualism: Problems, Prospects and Challenges- Language and Politics- Language and Personality- Bilingualism- Translation
Sub Themes for Literature
- Re-mapping/re-naming/re-creating the periphery- Border crossing- Literature and Revolution- Hybridity- Alterity- Nationhood- Cultural diversity- Dispossession and re-dispossession
Please, send abstracts to signpost_deyahoo.comTel: (237) 794 48 11 / (237) 734 25 15
Message 2: Audiovisual Translation Scenarios
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Date: 09-Jan-2006
From: Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast <h.gerzymischmx.uni-saarland.de>
Subject: Audiovisual Translation Scenarios
Full Title: Audiovisual Translation Scenarios
Short Title: MuTra 2006
Date: 01-May-2006 - 05-May-2006
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact Person: Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.euroconferences.info
Linguistic Field(s): Translation
Subject Language(s): English
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2006
Meeting Description:
Marie Curie Euroconference 'Audiovisual Translation Scenarios' 1 - 5 May, 2006, overall coordinator: Advanced Translation Research Center (ATRC) Saarland University/Germany, local host and partner: Henrik Gottlieb, Copenhagen University. The conference features multidimensional translation and interpreting in all its dimensions (hypertext translation, localization, written interpreting)with a focus on audiovisual translation scenarios ((live) subtitling, including HoH, audiodescription). The EU has provided funds for 45 young researchers in the field of multidimesnional translation to meet with international experts in the field. The conference is open to broadcasters, academics and practitioners. Details are continually updated under www.euroconferences.info
Website:http://www.euroconferences.info (Home and Copenhagen 2006)
PDF version of call descrption available under:http://www.euroconferences.info/pdf/2006-Call_for_Papers.pdf
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