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October 19, 2013
Call for papers: The 6th Asian Translation Tradition Conference 2014 Translating Asia: Migration and Transgression, University of the Philippines Dilman, October 23-25, 2014
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The 6th Asian Translation Tradition Conference 2014 Translating Asia: Migration and Transgression
Location: Philippines
Call for Papers Date: 2014-01-15
Date Submitted: 2013-10-11
Announcement ID: 207472
Asia has been the site of the migration of peoples, texts, and cultures since pre-modern times. These flows have came largely from the mother civilizations of the Arabic, Indian, and Chinese peoples and, in the modern and the transmaritime periods, from the West. Yet the movements have also come from within. Intra-regionally, people and texts have navigated on the borderless seascapes of Asia; and within borders, especially in Southeast Asia, center and periphery have been defined in terms of river and hill cultures. In recent times, flows have been transmedial. The paradox of Asia, as of other regions, is that it is both bordered and borderless. It is, but it is not still. It is a reality in translation.
Given this context, the conference focuses on the translation of texts (but also their mistranslations or untranslatability, Rafael 2013), the migrations and diffusions of texts, and the discourses on translation and translational exchange in Asia. It will include real translations between discrete cultures and different semiotic systems (as classified by Roman Jacobson in 1959), but its larger rubric is cultural translation, in the sense that Clifford (1986, 1988) used it, encompassing the development of multiple and multilayered identities in the crossing or transgressing of borders in both physical and conceptual spaces.
Aileen Salonga
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of the Philippines
Diliman
Quezon City Metro Manila Philippines
+632 9263496
Email: asiantranslation6@up.edu.ph
Visit the website at http://asiantranslation6.up.edu.ph/
SEPT 26-28 Indian Literature as Comparative Literature Workshop, Rutgers University *********** INDIAN LITERATURE AS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: A WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL MODERNISMS AND THE IDEA OF INDIAN LITERATURE College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, September 26-28, 2013
Please join us at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for “Indian Literature as Comparative Literature,” a workshop on regional modernisms and the idea of Indian literature. This workshop seeks to understand modernist experiments with language and form through the lens of India’s regional languages and identities. How would modern “Indian literature” look were it imagined not as a pre-existing category, but rather as constituted from the regions? What comparative methodologies might be most appropriate for studying shared regional literary trends? How might these methodologies offer new approaches to the study of comparative literature more generally? All events are free and open to everyone.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Welcome Reception, 5:30-7:00 pm Program in Comparative Literature Building 195 College Ave, New Brunswick
Friday, September 27, 2013
Pane Room, Alexander Library 169 College Ave, New Brunswick
Opening Remarks, 9:45-10:00 am Preetha Mani, Rutgers University
Panel I: Rethinking Comparativism, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Kumkum Sangari, University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin Francesca Orsini, School of Oriental and African Studies Snehal Shingavi, University of Texas-Austin Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers University, discussant
Panel II: Novel Experimentations, 1:30-3:30 pm Satya Mohanty, Cornell University Vasudha Dalmia, Yale University Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Rutgers University, discussant
Panel III: The Local and the Global, 4:00-6:00 pm Preetha Mani, Rutgers University Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University Kannan M., French Institute of Pondicherry Pritipuspa Mishra, Princeton University, discussant
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Pane Room, Alexander Library 169 College Ave, New Brunswick
Concluding Remarks and Roundtable Discussion, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Francesca Orsini, School of Oriental and African Studies Janet Walker, Rutgers University
For additional information, contact Preetha Mani, preetha.mani@rutgers.edu.
Grants and Fellowship Opportunities
The University of Zurich invites graduate students with an interest in exchanges and encounters between Asia and Europe to apply for fellowships. Further information can be found at: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46068
Articles of Interest
Receiving a Sanskrit Epic via Skype. Author Aatish Taseer writes of reading Kalidasa’s Birth of Kumara.
Jennifer Marshall’s review of Caroline Frank’s Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
Brenda Deen Schildgen’s review of James Simpson’s Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Ralph Hexter_Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies
Finnbarr Flood. “Introduction.” Objects of Translation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Gregory Minissale writes on the synthesis of European and Mughal Art in 16th century India