Translation and the Construction
of Identity:
Abstracts for Plenary Sessions
Date: 12-14 August 2004
Venue: Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Language of the conference: English
Plenary Sessions
Jan Blommaert
Ghent University, Belgium
THE
UNTRANSLATABLES: Diasporic Language, National Origin and Intercultural
Misunderstandings in Asylum Seekers’ Bureaucratic Encounters
Juliane House
Hamburg University
Global
English and the Destruction of Identity
Eva Hung
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Gilded Translator: Issues of Authority,
Control and Cultural Self-representation
Ian Mason
Heriot Watt University, UK
Projected
and Perceived Identities in Dialogue Interpreting
Lawrence Venuti
Temple University, USA
Local
Contingencies: Translation and National Culture
Harish Trivedi
University of Delhi, India
The Culture of Translation and Postcolonial
Identity