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CALL FOR PAPERS   CECC – The Research Centre for Communication and Culture announces: 3rd Graduate Conference in Culture Studies December 3-4, 2012 Faculty of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon   Report from the Pop Line: On the Life and Afterlife of Popular   The concept of the popular, or popular culture for that matter, has never ceased to be an ambivalent one. Although it has come to occupy a particular place under the spotlight over the past decades within the broad study of culture, such apparently privileged position has not deprived it of the manifold ambiguities, complexities or misconceptions that have often involved its general understanding.   Since its emergence within the context of the processes of industrialization and the changes they brought about, namely in terms of cultural relations and the development of the capitalist market economy, the concept of popular culture has been, not only utterly rejected by intellectuals and scholars alike, but also denied any possibility of constituting a serious and valid topic for academic debate. Up until the mid twentieth-century, popular culture was often reduced to a poor and simplistic form of entertainment and pleasure, and was even deemed morally and ethically questionable (not to mention aesthetically). However, and particularly after the 1950s, new perspectives would soon alter this perception in very significant ways, especially with the emergence of Cultural Studies and the influence their project had on both sides of the Atlantic. From severe condemnation, popular culture quickly evolved into a period of positive reception and celebration, which resulted from critical work developed inside the academia, but also popular demand outside it.   The concept of the popular was then adopted both as an intrinsic feature, and as topic in its own right of artistic creation developed under the sign of pop. From pop art to pop music, a new understanding of culture has been put forth, building from what is embedded in the ambivalence of the popular and its many possibilities of intersection with new artistic forms of expression.   At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, popular culture finds itself at a crossroads: has the concept been drained of its meaning because of its overwhelming popularity? After the euphoria around the popular, what afterlife can be expected from it? Should we still be discussing the popular as opposed to high and folk culture? And where and how do pop art forms intersect with the current notion of the popular?   This conference wishes to address the complexities surrounding the debate around the notions of both pop and the popular and discuss the possibilities of their afterlife.     This conference wishes to bring together doctoral students, post-doc researchers and international key scholars from different areas and disciplines, to share research interests and works-in-progress, engage in fresh intellectual discussion and build a community of young scholars.   Papers are welcome on the topics listed below, amongst others:   §  Popular Culture in Theory §  Life and Afterlife of Popular Culture §  Popular, Power and Politics §  Popular Culture: Globalization, Centres and Peripheries §  Material Culture §  Popular Arts §  Celebrities and Fans: The Dynamics of Popularity §  Representation, Mediation and Mediatisation of the Popular §  Cultures, Subcultures, Scenes and Tribes §  Pop and Popular: Overlap, Dissemblance and Divergence    Confirmed keynote speakers:   §  John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths College, University of London) §  Luísa Leal de Faria (Catholic University of Portugal)   Speakers should be prepared for a 20-minute presentation followed by questions. Please send a 300-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to email popline2012@gmail.com by July 15th, 2012. Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details. Successful applicants will be notified by July 31st, 2012.     Please note there is a conference registration fee of 30€ due by October 30th. We regret that travel and accommodation funding for conference participants is not available at this time.

The concept of “epistemicide” was coined in the 1990s by the Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, to refer to the destruction of "other” knowledges by hegemonic Western science (eg. Santos 1996, 2001, 2007). This volume is designed to draw attention to the extent to which the process occurs during the practice of translation (Bennett 2007). Hence, it aims to attract contributions that chart this trend in different linguistic contexts, disciplines and academic genres, or which bring a fresh new perspective to the question. Suggestions as to how translators might act to combat this problem are especially welcome. References: Bennett, Karen, 2007. ‘Epistemicide! The Tale of a Predatory Discourse’, in Sonia Cunico and Jeremy Munday (eds), Translation and Ideology: Encounters and Clashes, special edition of The Translator, Vol. 13, No. 2:151-169. Cronin, Michael, 1998. ‘The Cracked Looking Glass of Servants: Translation and Minority Languages in a Global Age’, The Translator, Vol. 4, No. 2:145-62. Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, 1996. "The Fall of the Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options" (Working Paper Series on Political Economy of Legal Change, 3, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ----- 2001. “Towards an epistemology of blindness: Why the new forms of ‘ceremonial adequacy’ neither regulate nor emancipate”, European Journal of Social Theory 4(3): 251-279 ----- 2007. “Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From global lines to ecologies of knowledge”, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 78. 3-46. Proposals of between 1000 and 1500 words should be sent by August 31st 2012 to: karen.bennett@netcabo.pt Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15th September. Deadline for completed articles: 15th December.

Viceversa is a broad-based journal whose aim is to publish refereed, well-written originalresearch articles, and studies that describe the latest research and developments in the areaof translation. The areas of interest include (but are not limited to):· History of translation and interpreting theory and practice· Theory of translation and interpreting· Development and use of translation and interpreting tools (dictionaries, glossaries,software, etc.)· Critical reviews of literary and non-literary translations· Critical reviews of translation and interpreting tools· Translators' reflections on their work· Specific translation and interpreting problemsManuscripts may be sent to the Editor, Viceversa, via e-mail (alugris@uvigo.es). Detailedinstructions on how to prepare your manuscript are available from the editor or under"Committee-Author Instructions" at http://webs.uvigo.es/webatg/viceversa/consello.htmPapers may be submitted in any major European language but will be translated intoGalician for the print publication. The electronic version of Viceversa will contain both theoriginal and Galician versions.

CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN TRANSLATION AND TRANSCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ENGLISH/FRENCH - FRENCH/ENGLISHCALL FOR PAPERS AND /OR TALKS   The Issue of Discursive Coherence: Translation and HomogenisationPalimpsestes 26 / Conference: 12-13 October 2012Recreating the balance of a literary text in translation means that the discursive space be taken into account as a whole and that the issue of homogenisation, which affects any translative process, be addressed. How do we translate texts that are based on a principle of plurality, dispersion or rupture? Does the translative process heighten or lessen such stylistic and narrative traits? What about Lawrence Venuti’s heterogenising approach which is meant to reduce the ethnocentrism prevalent in translation?  On a linguistic level, the contacts between languages in areas and countries where bilingualism prevails could be examined, as could the instances when different age groups or social classes interact. John Lyons’s “fiction of homogeneity” relative to speakers of the same linguistic community could be looked at in relation to the manner in which it manifests itself in translation and in the critique of translation. Moreover, it would also be interesting to test the well-documented principle of homogeneity of the English language, in which, we are told, an inanimate subject and an animate predicate do not fare well together as compared to what takes place in the French language.  On a socio-critical level, the possible editorial reasons behind such textual and stylistic homogenising could be a further matter of investigation. In what ways, for instance, do the audiences and markets aimed at by the publishers or editors commissioning translations influence the process of homogenisation? Does the separation of audiences (young readers, high brow audience, mainstream audience, and so on) lead to retranslations or competing translations of the same texts? What happens when one author’s oeuvre is translated by different translators, both diachronically and synchronically? Finally, on a socio-historic level, it might be useful to investigate the ways in which translations and transcultural transfers generate a rather homogeneous—or on the contrary heterogeneous—vision of other/foreign cultures.Proposals (a half-page summary in English or French) plus a short CV should be sent, by 15th April 2012 at the latest to: Christine Raguet Pascale Sardinc.raguet@univ-paris3.fr pascale.sardin@univ-paris3.fr

33rd APEAA Meeting in Lisbon, Catholic University of Portugal: 20-22 September   Markets are crumbling. States are (going) bankrupt. Power and politics are more and more estranged. Unemployment is rising. Social inequalities are growing. Amidst the general climate of anxiety, political discourses on culture, identity and difference are changing, in Europe as in the United States, often relegating social disparities and cultural diversity to "the status of collaterality (marginality, externality, disposability, not a legitimate part of the political agenda)" (Bauman, 2011). This collaterality produces tensions and stereotypes - the reenactement of a 'no future worldview' generates an overall loss of confidence, which, in turn, feeds on new exclusions and old and new (ir)rational fears. This conference wishes to address the extant crisis as a landscape of cultural and aesthetic possibilitiesas well as of constraints and perils: how will finantial instability affect the self-image of the Western world as well as its relationship with its many others?, how will fear and anxiety determine translatability both in a literal and in a metaphorical sense?, what images and representations of identity and alterity will literature, film, tv, music produce at a time of distress and unrest?, how will the new-found desire for authority and authenticity articulate with the plurality of contemporary societies? Papers are welcome on the following areas: Culture and Representation, Gender Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Theory, Film and Other Media, Peace and War Studies, Translation, among others. Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to authorityvsalterity@gmail.com by 30 April 2012. Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details. The conference languages are English and Portuguese.

Research models and methods in legal translation   LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA, NEW SERIES (12/2013) -Themes in Translation Studies Journal of translation and interpreting studies published by the Department of Translators and Interpreters of Artesis University College Antwerp   CALL FOR PAPERS (see also: www.lans-tts.be)    Guest editors: Łucja Biel (University of Gdańsk, Poland) & Jan Engberg (Aarhus University, Denmark)    This special issue of LANS TTS intends to track recent developments in legal translation studies triggered by new methodologies and to test the explanatory power and potential of such approaches to uncover the nature of legal translation.     One such promising new approach is represented by corpus-based methodologies and their combination with other methods, for example, critical discourse analysis. Corpora have been intensely applied in linguistics as an empirical and data-driven approach which allows for reduced speculation and offers the potential to verify hypotheses systematically on large collections of texts. Corpus-based methodologies have changed the way we handle data but, above all, have shifted attention from the study of words to the study of patterns, emphasizing that language use is highly patterned and that such patterns are cognitively motivated (Stubbs, 2004). Legal language, which is notorious for its formulaicity, standardization, petrification and rituals, seems to be well suited for this type of analysis. Corpus-based methodologies have also been embraced by Translation Studies, although relatively little research involves legal translation. The main focus is on the hypotheses of translation universals – distinctive features of translation resulting from constraints unique to the translation process, researched on comparable corpora (Baker, 1993), which have not satisfactorily been tested on legal translation. What also seems appealing is the textual fit of translations, that is, how translated law and other legal texts differ from non-translated language. Parallel corpora may be applied to address topics such as term/phraseme distinction, recurrent patterns, translation strategies and techniques and variability/stability of equivalents in legal translation.   Equally important is the systematic description of actual translation practice, translation process and professional aspects of legal translation. This trajectory covers process studies of legal translation, involving Think-Aloud Protocols (TAPs), keystroke logging or eye-tracking software, which may help map different stages of the translation process, understand cognitive processes in the translator’s mind and improve the translation process and product by developing adequate resources. Translation practice is also researched through workplace studies and ethnographic approaches.   Another trajectory of research is legal translation in multilingual and institutionalized settings, which, as emphasized in the literature, is a rare object of study within Translation Studies. In the enlarged European Union, legal translation participates in the construction of new societies, having a social, cultural and political dimension. Owing to its unprecedented multilingualism, institutionality and hybridity, EU translation has challenged some central concepts of Translation Studies with its fluid and non-final source texts, concurrent drafting and translation, collective translation processes, and the replacement of source text and target texts by authentic language versions. The translation process is complicated by the fact that EU law is still developing and that its supranational conceptual network relies on national conceptual systems (cf. Kjær 2007). Kjær argues that translation of EU law should become an independent research field with its own theoretical framework because traditional theories of legal translation are inadequate to account for it (2007). Does legal translation require a new theory in such settings? Another pertinent question is how EU law influences the language of national law at the conceptual, syntactic and textual level and how it can be tested empirically.   These are just a few topics which may be addressed. We invite proposals that investigate patterns and processes of legal translation from a new angle and contribute to mapping current developments and projecting future trajectories of research into legal translation.   We invite proposals dealing with one or more of the following topics: 1. ·        Corpus-based studies of legal translation: potential and limitations, translation universals, parallel corpus studies on strategies and techniques, etc. ·        Differences between legal translation and comparative law. ·        Legal translation and discourse analysis. ·        Legal translation as knowledge mediation. ·        Theory of legal translation in multilingual settings. ·        Semantics of legal concepts and translation. ·        Process studies of legal translation. ·        Workplace studies of legal translation. ·        Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in legal translation. ·        Legal term/phraseme distinction; multi-word terms, phraseology and recurrent patterns in translation. ·        Emergence of new globalizing genres through translation. ·        Any other innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to legal translation. 9.  References Baker, M. (1996). Corpus-based translation studies: the challenges that lie ahead. In H. L. Somers & L. Harold (Eds.), Terminology, LSP and Translation. Studies in Language Engineering in Honour of Juan C. Sager (pp. 175-186). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Kjær, A. L. (2007). Legal translation in the European Union: A research field in need of a new approach. In K. Kredens & S. Goźdź-Roszkowski (Eds.), Language and the Law: International Outlooks (pp. 175-186).  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Stubbs, M. (2004). Language Corpora. In A. Davies & C. Elder (Eds.) Handbook of Applied Linguistics (pp. 106-132). Oxford: Blackwell.   Practical information and deadlines Proposals: abstracts of approximately 500 words, including some relevant bibliography, should be submitted by 1 June 2012 . Please send your proposals  to: Łucja Biel anglb@ug.edu.pl.  Acceptance of proposals: 1 July 2012 Submission of articles: 1 February 2013 Acceptance of articles: 30 April 2013 Publication: November-December 2013 Style sheet: www.lans-tts.be

The Taboo Conference – TaCo2012 Forlì (Italy), 25-27 October 2012 http://taco2012.sitlec.unibo.it   Third call for papers   In a world that seems continuously to be pushing the envelope of what is acceptable to the inhabitants of specific linguistic and cultural contexts, this interdisciplinary conference acknowledges the importance of investigating taboos and their reinforcement/breaking in various areas of language, culture and society, and across different cultures. We propose to explore the delicate balance and subtle boundaries between the need for inclusion and respect for different ethnic, religious, sexual, etc. backgrounds – which seems to be at the basis of modern multicultural societies – and a (un)conscious push towards the breaking of existing taboos, for example for shock value, as in the case of humour. In such context, investigation of the linguistic, cultural, social, institutional and personal implications of taboo reinforcement/breaking appears of extreme value.   We welcome individual proposals or pre-organized panels from different disciplines pertaining – but by no means limited – to the following thematic areas:   Sex and sexuality Nudity Death and the afterlife Sickness and disability Scatology/bodily fluids Deformity/otherness Blasphemy Altered states/drug culture Body modifications Fat Prostitution   Keynote speakers include:   Christie Davies – University of Reading Don Kulick – University of Chicago Brett Mills – University of East Anglia Jessica Milner Davis – University of Sydney The working language for the conference is English. Each paper presentation should be scheduled for 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be submitted through the conference website http://taco2012.sitlec.unibo.it by 31st March 2012. If you are interested in submitting a panel, please contact us by the same deadline at dipsitlec.taco2012@unibo.it Notification of acceptance for both abstracts and panels will be given by 15th April 2012.

 Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads III Impact: making a difference in intercultural communication     THird cross-cultural Pragmatics Conference at the UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, nORWICH, uk   Wednesday 26 – Friday 28 June 2013  https://www.uea.ac.uk/ccp3     INVITED SPEAKERS   Plenary 1          Istvan Kecskes (University at Albany, USA) Plenary 2          Mona Baker (University of Manchester, UK) Plenary 3          [Srikant Sarangi (Cardiff University, UK) TBC] Plenary 4          Minako O’Hagan (Dublin City University, Ireland) Plenary 5          Ana Rojo (Universidad de Murcia, Spain) Plenary 6          Christine Béal and Véronique Traverso ( (Université Paul Valéry, Montptellier and Lyon 2, France) (provisional order)       Outreach Event Special Guest contributor   Makiko Mizuno (Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya) (public and community interpreting)     CALL FOR PAPERS   The conference builds on the success of two prior Cross-cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads conferences at the UEA - Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions in 2006, and its larger-scale follow-up Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media in 2011 -, this time with an even more ambitious agenda.   Like its forerunners, CCP III will be interdisciplinary, and aims to bring together, under the umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics, researchers from domains which are particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote the cross-fertilization of practises, ideas and theoretical approaches, and explore key concerns associated with communication across language and culture boundaries, in practice and theory.   ­Making a difference, the impact theme of this third meeting, will tap into, and confront, two closely related spheres of research activity in intercultural communication:   ·      Research in its value and contribution to wider society,  i.e. the pursuit of research that makes a difference and ways of making it applicable and available to those for whom it can make a difference   ·      Research in its investigation of factors that impede or promote communication, understanding and respect for otherness in multicultural/globalised settings   Conflict and conflict resolution, negotiation at all levels (local, national, global) across languages, cultures and contexts (political, business, welfare, media, culture), and attendant failures, breakdowns and also successes, feed the news with headlines and affect our lives on an everyday basis. How do we, and how can we, make the difference?   →  How can the theories of cross-/intercultural communication be applied to solve communicative conflicts in multicultural/globalised settings, for example?  Such conflicts can be triggered not just by prejudiced or overtly ethnocentric inputs but also by uninspected assumptions that, with English as lingua franca, acquisition and knowledge of languages other than English is no longer necessary, that “cultural” contrasts can be neatly separated from communicative and linguistic issues, that avoidance of potentially conflict-laden topics/terminologies (e.g. faith-related communication, political-historical evaluations) will guarantee conflict-free communication, or that a strictly “plain” or formally defined language use will avoid misunderstanding and miscommunication.   →  How can the theories of cross-/intercultural communication be applied to promote understanding and respect for otherness in all its richness, and pre-empt communicative conflict in multicultural/globalized settings.   →  How can the theories of cross-/intercultural communication be further developed? Miscommunication between individuals and groups leads to dire consequences and on a global international level the outcomes of breakdowns or misrepresentations have a decisive and often devastating impact on whole communities and nations. The investigation into the reasons why this may occur, as well as how to solve problems and prevent them in the first place are a priority in today’s world.. Parallels at local or interpersonal levels or in other contexts can be no less dramatic, and are equally in urgent need of exploration.         CCP III will provide a platform for open dialogue on the multiple factors that play a role in both success and failure to communicate at all levels and highlight the ways forward where failure will no longer be an option, and tolerance to otherness not just an aspiration. Our understanding of IMPACT is grounded in the belief that research outcomes should reach beyond the realm of pure academia and have an impact themselves across linguistic, cultural, political or economic borders. We are also mindful of the need to recognise that research outcomes are not all equally tangible in their impact and of the need therefore constantly to challenge institutional and public understandings of the concept.   With these goals in mind, we invite researchers from various disciplines to offer theoretically reliable and practically applicable frameworks for raising awareness of the fundamental importance that cross-cultural communication has today and will have in the future. Domains of application that CCP III will be particularly interested in include:     ·       Professional communication and negotiation ·       Political and strategic negotiation ·       Forensic linguistics and translation ·       Access to justice  and public services ·       Translation and communication across arts and media ·       Translation and communication in the globalised world of sport ·       Interfaith dialogues ·       Public debates about multi-/intercultural society ·       Responses to cross- and intercultural crossings     ·       Other related topics.       The general framework for the conference will be provided by plenary papers delivered by distinguished scholars representing different languages and complementary perspectives: intercultural communication, intercultural and socio-pragmatics, translation and globalisation, translation and contrastive rhetoric, contrastive translation and psycholinguistics, discourse analysis and professional discourse.   By virtue of the conference theme and of the inbuilt inter-disciplinarity of cross-cultural pragmatics generally, proceedings will be informed by different methodological paradigms (e.g. cross- and intercultural pragmatics, socio-pragmatics, translation studies, interactional and critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic typology, psycholinguistics, systemic functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics). Proposals, for individual papers (20 minutes) or proposer-led panels on a particular theme (90 to 150 minutes), will be expected clearly to identify their theoretical frame(s) of reference and methodological approach.   Outreach Event   Like its predecessor, CCP III will seek to foster the partnership between the University, its local host community and communities beyond with an end-of-conference Outreach Event that will bring together representatives from all these groups to share their views on the challenges of communication across languages and cultures. Details will be posted on the conference website.   Special Guests   In the world of Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication, the past few years have seen the rise of the idea of ‘otherness’, and attempts to understand how to build bridges to the ‘other’ worlds beyond Europe, such as Asia or Africa. Listening to the voices from other parts of the world can be an antidote not only to Anglocentrism, but also to the increasing risk of Eurocentrism. For this event, we are therefore delighted and honoured to count among our invited speakers two outstanding Japanese scholars, Makiko Mizuno and Minako O’Hagan, and to celebrate with them and with our new Centre for Japanese Studies at the UEA our commitment to promoting Japanese and Japanese Studies at the highest level.     PRACTICAL DETAILS   Abstract deadline:  15 November 2012   Language:  English, French, Spanish   Proposal:  400-word anonymous abstract (800 words for panels) to be submitted through the Linguist List at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/ccpIII2013. Titles should give an indication of the main question/s addressed, of the data and methodology used and of the language/s of application.   Organisers: Marie-Noëlle Guillot with Roger Baines, Luna Filipovìc, Clive Matthews, Andreas Musolff, Carlos de Pablos-Ortega, Giulio Pagani, Gabrina Pounds, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Alain Wolf    m.guillot@uea.ac.uk, r.w.baines@uea.ac.uk, l.filipovic@uea.ac.uk, clive.matthews@uea,ac,uk, a.musolff@uea.ac.uk, c.de-pablos@uea.ac.uk, g.pounds@uea.ac.uk,g.pagani@uea.ac.uk, N.Sato-Rossberg@uea.ac.uk, a.wolf@uea.ac.uk   School of Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom  

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES Vol. 18   Please note that the deadline for proposals for all issues is 31 October 2012, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2013. Volume 18 will appear in 2014.     TRANSLATING ETHNICITY Guest Editors: Silvia Bruti, Roberto Valdeón and Serenella Zanotti   In both written and visual works, racial or ethnic difference is most frequently signalled through the use of language variations.  Signalling ethnicity by means of dialogue involves language manipulation on the part of writers and is subject to the pressure of cultural discourses of race and ethnicity.  This issue will investigate: a) the strategies adopted in representing ethnic varieties of English in written and audio-visual media; b) what happens to the construction of ethnic varieties in the processes of cross-cultural transfer involved in translation. The volume will address, among others, the following questions: how are ethnic varieties handled in Anglophone cultural products? How is linguistic diversity used to construct ethnic identity? What strategies are adopted in the construction of ethnic minorities in works translated from English into other European languages? How does translation respond to the challenges posed by multiethnic and multicultural societies?   Proposals for contributions are welcomed from scholars working in the full range of English literary, media, cultural, and translation studies on topics that might include, but are not restricted to:   ·         changes in linguistic and cultural perspectives of Anglophone discourse about ethnicity as reflected in the media and literature; ·         manipulations in the processes of dissemination, translation and reception of English/world literature texts; ·         the analysis  of the construction of ethnicity in film adaptation; ·         the use of subtitling to signal the relation between language variation and the visual construction of ethnic identity; ·         European critical perspectives on Anglo-American/post-colonial constructions of ethnic identities in English; ·         manipulation and censorship in translating ethnic varieties; ·         the impact of the construction and translation of ethnic voices in English/world literatures on translation practice and theory; ·         cross-cultural pragmatics and poetics.   Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to all the guest editors: Silvia Bruti: < s.bruti@angl.unipi.it>, Roberto Valdeón: <valdeon@uniovi.es>, and Serenella Zanotti: <szanotti@uniroma3.it>.          

September 7-8 2012 Bangor University UK The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to focus on questions of ‘cultural translation’ in all its forms and constructs. As global identity becomes increasingly defined by questions of communication across languages and cultures the role of ‘translation’ becomes key in the forging of new subjectivities. Cultural Translation is not only an important field of academic study but also an essential part of our daily experiences. In the last few decades the interaction between East Asian Cultures and the West has raised many issues related to questins of cultural Imperialism, cultural miscommunication and the global pattern of cultural transmission. This conference will engage with these ideas and more. Topics could include (although are not limited to) : 1.     Adaption in literature, film and media 2.     Interplay between East Asian nations 3.     Construction of ‘East Asia’ as a theoretical/political/cultural concept 4.     A focus on the interplay between ‘East Asia’ and the ‘West’ 5.     Global Dissemination of East Asian Popular Culture. 6.     Creative writing and literary translation as cross-cultural tool We would especially welcome practice-led works from artists, translators, filmmakers and writers. Panel submissions (3-4 people) are also very welcome. This conference is broadly considering Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to be the geographical area of focus however comparative studies are very welcome. There are plans for a special edition journal as a direct result of this conference. To submit papers or panel proposals, please go to the website or contact the organisers for more details: https://sites.google.com/site/culturaltranslationbangorwales/Dr Kate Taylor-Jones (k.taylor@bangor.ac.uk) Dr Yan Ying (y.ying@bangor.ac.uk)

International Conference The Voices of Suspense and their Translation in Thrillers Madrid, October 18th and 19th, 2012 Call for Papers  The International Conference “The Voices of Suspense and their Translation in Thrillers” (VSTT) aims to study fictional dialogue and its translation in suspense novels and films and in related genres. The particular interest in dialogue comes from the host of roles it plays in fiction. It helps create suspense and arouses a whole range of feelings related to the development and dénouement of the plot in the reader or the audience. Moreover, fictional dialogue is the discursive method to evoke orality, confer authenticity and credibility on a plot and give fictional characters a voice.     Contributions should deal with aspects related to the translation of genres and subgenres such as crime, horror and political fiction, as well as the different subtypes of thrillers (political, legal, psychological, etc.). The conference also aims to study fictional dialogue in the different modalities of audiovisual translation, especially the dubbing and subtitling of films, TV series, adaptations and remakes, as well as the videogames that belong to the suspense genre.   Proposals for conference papers (20 minutes maximum) and posters should be sent to congresotradif@upcomillas.es before April 18th, 2012. The submission of a 250-word anonymous abstract for papers and a 150-word anonymous abstract for posters (only in English or in both English and Spanish) should be accompanied by a separate document including the following information: First and last name of the author of the paper Postal address E-mail address Academic institution Title of the paper By June 4th, 2012, notification of acceptance will be sent to participants. Please visit our website for further details: http://www.upcomillas.es/congresotradif/tradif_pres.aspx Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via congresotradif@upcomillas.es This conference is part of the research project La traducción del diálogo ficcional. Textos literarios y textos multimodales (“The translation of fictional dialogue. Literary and multimodal texts”), TRADIF, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The participants in this project study feigned orality in fictional works with regard to two different areas: Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies. More information about TRADIF is available by clicking here.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT “Subtitles and Language Learning” Pavia 13th 14th September 2012. www.unipv.it/sllconf The aim is to disseminate the results of a three-year project - Nov 2009 – Nov 2012 -  co-financed by the EU Life Long Learning Programme, managed by  EACEA (European Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency - Agreement Number 2009–4041/001-001, Project Number 504737-LLP-1-2009-1-FI-KA2-KA2NW). Since a considerable number of EU projects confirm that subtitles provide a rich context for foreign language acquisition, all European and international researchers and teachers engaged in the study of the function of subtitles in second/foreign language learning are welcome to the conference. Please visit the conference website: www.unipv.it/sllconf e-mail  - subtitles@unipv.it Please find us on Facebook: International Conference – Subtitles and Language Learning