“New Areas of Research in Translational Hermeneutics” 11-12 July 2013, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Tusaaji No. 2 Guest editor: Lyse Hébert Embodiment Translation is an embodied human praxis, one that involves movement of knowledge within and across cultures, languages, space and time. Beyond the metaphoric understandings of translation, this movement is a lived experience for translators, whose practice is conditioned by various levels of awareness (e.g, experiential and cognitive) and by multiple subjectivities and forms of relation. Translation is a meaningful activity that contributes to the exchange and creation of meaning. Each moment in translators’ activity is marked by rational and non-rational decision-making, by singularity and continuity, and by intentionality. Translation, in turn, marks and reinscribes…

  University of East Anglia School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing School of Language and Communication Studies   23rd and 24th March 2013   The fifth Postgraduate Translation Symposium at the University of East Anglia aims to examine translation as a form of literature in its own right: since Lawrence Venuti’s influential work on the translator’s visibility (1995), much progress has been made in the academic study of translation in this regard, but many critics and publishers remain reluctant to acknowledge the translator’s involvement in the creation of a new text or the status of these texts as anything…

Call for Papers:   Special Issue of Translation Studies: Orality and Translation     guest edited by Paul F. Bandia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   For details see www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rtrs   There is a growing interest in orality as a concept underpinning research in many disciplines, including translation studies. Orality has featured prominently in studies related to pre-modernist traditions, modernist representations of the past, and postmodernist expressions of artistry such as in audiovisual media. Its conceptualization may vary according to the research objectives or preoccupations of particular disciplines. Anthropologists and historians conceptualize orality as the medium of expression and discourse of non-literate cultures, while colonialists and Christian…