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Type of Event: Symposium
Date: 2010-05-20
Venue: Modern Literatures and Languages Department of the University of Montreal, Canada
Event theme(s): •Languages: Spanish in contact with other languages; history of Spanish in America; teaching of Spanish as a second language. •Literatures: Genre and canon building; orality/literacy interaction; electronic and print medias, publicity. •Translation: Intervention or agency of the translator (adaptation, appropriation, rewriting); cultural and symbolic representation of the Other; conceptualization of translation according to cultures.

Description: Current reality confronts us with the problems of diversity, life in society and survival on the planet. The imperative need to give adequate and effective answers to such challenges leads us to rethink the modality of the exchanges that arise in the organization of space and human interactions. To this end, we propose to explore three spheres of transcultural mediations: namely those related to languages, literatures and translation. This exploration will consider mediations produced in Iberoamerican spaces characterized by the presence and contact of different cultural horizons (mainly Amerindian, European-Criollo and Afro-descendant).

The official languages of the Symposium will be: Spanish, French and English.

Keynote Speakers:
Deadline for submission of proposals:
Registration deadline: 2009-10-01
Contact details: Papers (30 min. including 10 min. for questions): A two folio (4000 character including spaces) abstract and a 1000 character summary should be sent to the symposium secretariat (medtrans@littlm. umontreal. ca) before October 1, 2009. Decisions by the scientific committee will be communicated in December 2009.

Each proposal (abstract and summary) must include the following information: name; status (teacher, student, professional) ; professional affiliation (university, institution) ; postal and e-mail addresses; details regarding your academic degrees and three major publications.
Event website: http://www.littlm. umontreal. ca/medtrans2010