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Type of Event: Seminar
Date: 2007-02-21; 2007-02-28; 2007-03-14
Venue: University College London
Event theme(s): Old and New Models of Translation

Description: The seminar explores the tension between old and new trends in translation practice and theory. The fact that translation has been for a long time mostly represented in public space and educational curricula ֖ as merely a text-based activity that falls within the confines of linguistics meant that a wide range of socio-cultural phenomena that are related to or have implications for translation and are not necessarily text-based have gone largely unnoticed. The rise of what is known in translation studies as the cultural turnђ in the 1980s widened the scope of translation research in terms of the material investigated and the methodologies employed. Not only did the recent developments in translation studies question the claim that translation is only a text-based activity to be studied by linguistic analysis, but they also put to question the very notions of textuality and language. Like language, translation, as a result of new developments in the field, has been reconceived as a means for negotiating identities national, gender, minority ֖ and effecting political intervention, rather than being an unbiased medium of communication. This series of seminars seeks to contribute to debates in translation studies regarding the rise of new models for investigating old and new material. Accordingly, papers in this series of seminars have two main goals: first, considering ways for crossing the boundaries between translation research and such disciplines as sociology, ethnography, post-colonial studies, gender studies, history of ideas, among others. Second, giving more visibility to translation phenomena and cultural traditions that are highly under-researched in mainstream translation studies.

Keynote Speakers: Professor Mona Baker (University of Manchester)
Professor Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
Professor Paul Starkey (Durham University)
Deadline for submission of proposals:
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Contact details: Dr. Sameh Fekry Hanna (University College London)
sameh.hanna@ucl.ac.uk
Event website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2006-2007/index.shtml