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Conference Announcement Theme: Translation and the Politics of Recognition Type: 4th IATIS Conference Institution: International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Queen's University Belfast Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) Date: 24.–27.7.2012 __________________________________________________ The theme of the IATIS 2012 conference is: ‘Translation and the Politics of Recognition’. This may be interpreted in a broad manner, embracing such topics as globalisation, cultural encounter, intercultural relations and conflict. Related thematic areas include, but are not limited to, the following: - the crisis in models of multiculturalism and integrationism; - the role of translation in terms of conflict resolution, mediation and reporting; - covert censorship - mediated manipulations and the role of the translator / interpreter; - cultural translation between ethnic groups, particularly majoritarian and minoritarian; - translation, minorities, and language rights; - translation, public memory and memorialisation; - the translator / interpreter as cultural broker in a transnational world; - intercultural relations and their political impact; - interaction between the cultures of 'large' and 'small' nations; - the role of literary translation in challenging or reinforcing cultural difference; - transnational media and their role in facilitating, or discouraging, intercultural understanding; - translation/interpreting and its politics; - translation/interpreting and its ethics; - translation and the contesting of nationalist narratives; - recognition of the translator in technologised workflows; - the identity of the translator/the translator’s multiple identities. Confirmed Keynote Speakers Radwa Ashour (Egypt) Egyptian novelist, critic and academic. Professor of English at Ain Shams University, Cairo. Ciaran Carson (Ireland) Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University. Author of nine collections of poems. Jose Mario C. Francisco (The Philippines) Professor of Philosophical and Systematic Theology at the Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University. Hilary Footitt (UK) Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading. Moira Inghilleri (UK) Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London. Co-editor of The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. Conference Organising Committee Piotr Blumczynski (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) David Johnston (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) Stephen Kelly (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University, Ireland) John Milton (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Contact: Rachael Wilkinson Administrative Secretariat, Belfast 2012 Conference International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.iatis.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
