CALL FOR PAPERS MOVING BODIES ACROSS TRANSLAND Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon Date: 30-31 October 2014 19th- and 20th-century history is rich in episodes that show that linguistic, cultural, national identities have hardly been confined to one nation state but often extrapolate to diasporas or permeate languages and cultures of migrating communities. The role of translators and translation, either translation proper or as metaphor to (re)examine the multiplicity of cultural practices, is decisive to understand such movements in, out and across a globalized world where translation flows have become a defining factor: a ‘transland’. Further research is needed addressing this locus of inquiry as well as the power and impact of translation on the construction and reshaping of cultural memory, especially in post-colonial or dictatorial regimes, and of such notions as homeland, citizenship, identity, gender, language, and history itself. This conference – no. 31 of the series Alterities, Crossings, Transfers (ACT) periodically organized by the Centre for Comparative Studies – invites proposals for 20-minute papers offering cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to cultural and translation transfers or practices in the period outlined. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to: – How are forms of inclusion, subversion or legitimisation articulated in a target system? – Can translation be an ethical response to otherness? What is then the role of narratives and agents between and across times, spaces and genres? – How have translation practices been used to supply imperial needs? – What strategies, tools or networks have empires developed to guarantee communication between centre and periphery/peripheries? – Colonial and post-colonial Portugal: how has knowledge about otherness been constructed and disseminated in Portugal? Which narratives have been produced in (post)colonial Portugal as forms of inclusion, subversion or power legitimation? Confirmed keynote speaker Paul Bandia (Concordia University Montreal, Canada) Elena Brugioni (Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Universidade do Minho) Conference languages Papers may be presented in Portuguese or English. Abstracts must be submitted in English (for double-blind peer review) at across.transland@gmail. Submissions should include: – Title of paper – Name – Institutional affiliation – Abstract (max. 500 words and 5 keywords) – Audiovisual requirements – Language of presentation (Portuguese or English) – Bionote (max. 100 words, mentioning main research interests, projects and selected publications) Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30 May 2014 Notifications of acceptance will be sent by: 30 June 2014 Registration fees Students – 50 € Non-Students – 70 € Organising committee João Ferreira Duarte, Manuela Carvalho, and Marta Pacheco Pinto
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