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Conference Announcement "Borders, Nations, Translations: The Political Limits of Cultural Trans-Nationalism" International Conference European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP) Vienna (Austria) 14-15 March 2008 __________________________________________________ Home is where I understand and where I am understood, wrote Karl Jaspers once. If this home today is our globalized world, then its mother tongue cannot be but a translation, both linguistically and culturally. And yet, what if we want this home to have a political meaning, to be the place of freedom, justice and equality for all of us? Should we form a nation of translation and claim its sovereignty in an independent state? Who translates betrays: mother tongues, borders and, above all, the old political dreams. The betrayers of all the nations will never form a nation of their own. It is time for a new challenge. Is it possible to articulate the emerging trans-national culture of translation in non-cultural terms or, in other words, are we able to translate a trans-national cultural space into a common trans-cultural political action? Speakers: Boris Buden, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodriguez, Rada Ivekovic, Sandro Mezzadra, Klaus Neundlinger, Stefan Nowotny, Jon Solomon, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Hito Steyerl, Tom Waibel, Michaela Wolf Programme / abstracts / audio-streaming: http://translate.eipcp.net/conference Contact: European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP) Gumpendorfer Str. 63b A-1060 Wien Austria Email: [email protected] Web: http://translate.eipcp.net/conference __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
