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Conference Announcement "The Transnational Study of Culture: Lost or found in Translation?" Interdisciplinary Conference International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University Gießen Rauischholzhausen (Germany) 28-30 October 2009 __________________________________________________ Presently we find a diversity of approaches in (Western) academe going by the name of "Cultural Studies", "Sciences Humaines" or "Kulturwissenschaft(en)". For a long time already, all of these approaches have faced the challenge of inter- and transdisciplinarity. Until today, however, they have too seldom (and too vaguely) examined ways to expand their own transnational and transcultural horizon. On further exploring their transnational scope, the category of translation opens up highly promising perspectives since cooperation between different research cultures increasingly takes place under the influence of the study of culture which is becoming more international. Translation can thus become a useful model to negotiate between – and link together – different traditions within the study of culture in joint transnational endeavors. The conference, "The Transnational Study of Culture: Lost or found in Translation? Kulturwissenschaft(en) - Cultural Studies - Sciences Humaines", is a first attempt to bring together leading representatives in the study of culture from different research cultures. We do so not only in order to discuss the conditions, opportunities and overall perspectives for collaboration but also to explore the boundaries of possible transnational transfers between the various forms of the study of culture. The main objective of this conference is to question the characteristics and guiding ideas of different research cultures with respect to their translatability. Programme: 28 October 2009 18:00 Reception 18:30 Inaugural Address Ansgar Nünning und Wolfgang Hallet Lost or Found in Translation? – The Risks and Promises of Conceptual Transfer 19:30 Conference Dinner 29 October 2009 9:30 Keynote Speech Doris Bachmann-Medick The Transnational Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective Panel Mobility of Concepts and Categories | Moderation Sünne Juterczenka 10:30 Matthias Middell How Concepts Travel: The Study of transferts culturels and Its Echoes in Various Disciplines and Different Countries | Response Hubertus Büschel 11:15 Break 11:30 Christina Lutter What Do We Translate When We Translate? Context, Process, and Practice as Categories of Cultural Analysis | Response Horst Carl 12:30 Lunch Panel Transnational Cultural Studies? | Moderation Beatrice Michaelis 14:00 John Storey British Cultural Studies and Its Transnational Origins | Respondenz | Response Tanja Thomas 14:45 Rainer Winter Unübersetzbarkeiten? Das Nebeneinander von Cultural Studies und Kulturwissenschaften | Response Uwe Wirth 15:30 Christa Knellwolf-King Telling the Stories of the Contact Zone: Experimental Transitions between History, Fiction and Criticism in Australian Cultural Studies | Response Greta Olson 16:15 Break Panel Politics of Research Cultures/Politics of Translation | Moderation Wim Peeters 17:00 Boris Buden Translation and the East: A Challenge for Cultural Theory | Response Anna Veronika Wendland 17:45 Jon Solomon Translation: De-Linking Experience and Knowledge | Response Gerald Siegmund 18:30 Dinner 30 October 2009 Panel Localizations, Frictions, Appropriations | Moderation Kai Sicks 9:00 Thomas Weber Medien und Kommunikation: Nationale Zuordnungen als transnationale Übersetzungsprobleme (im deutsch-französischen Diskurs) | Response Martin Zierold 09:45 Birgit Mersmann Cultural Conditions of Visual Transmission: Manga Images on Transit | Response Jörn Ahrens 10:30 Johannes Angermüller Local Constructions of Global Authors: On Reading (the Many) Foucault(s) | Response Stefanie Wodianka 11:15 Break 11:30 Concluding Discussion 12:30 Lunch Contact: Justus Liebig University Gießen International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture Alter Steinbacher Weg 38 D-35394 Gießen Germany Phone: +49 (0)641 99 30 041 Fax: +49 (0)641 99 30 049 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.gcsc.uni-giessen.de/transnational __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
