Translating Power, Empowering Translation

Posted by on Aralık 29, 2011 in Duyuru, Etkinlik, Güncel

Talinn will host a new conference on translation between 24-26 May 2012. The focus is the “politics” of translation and the participants will elaborate on how translation can both resist and subserve to the existing relations of power. The confirmed keynote speaker of the conference is Lawrence Venuti.

 

The call for papers is now over and the list of participants will be announced in mid-March. Possible subjects of the conference are as follows:

– translation in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes
– un/paralleled paths in the methodologies of researching (post)colonial and (post)soviet translation
– translation and globalisation: the role of state, market and translators in the establishment of translation politics
– translators, agency and commitment
– translation: gender, power and subversion
– translation strategies and their performative capacities
– political history, cultural history and translation history: overlapping areas, discrepancies and contradictions