International Association for Translation & Intercultural Studies
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Translation and the Construction of Identity
Date: 12-14 August 2004
Venue: Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30th November 2003
Notification of acceptance: 15th January 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
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’s University in Seoul, Korea, is hosting an international conference with an appropriately international and pressing theme: Translation and the Construction of Identity. ‘Translation’ 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:
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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. A number of special panels have been established to deal with specific areas of interest.
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Important Dates & InformationDeadline for submitting abstracts: 30th
November 2003
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Contact Details Sung
Hee Kirk, |
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