Conference Description and Topics

The 1st East & West Conference on Translation Studies – Translation History Matters aims to provide a biannual forum for East and West Dialogue on Translation Studies. This inaugural edition will dedicated to “Translation History Matters” and welcomes contributions addressing issues related (though not circumscribed) to translation history, historiography and metahistoriography. Centred on translation understood as an intentional phenomenon of human and mostly intercultural communication, this conference focuses on the role played by translation in Eastern and Western cultural practices and encounters through history as well as on the role of history in understanding both translation and translation studies. By bringing together Eastern and Western views on a multitude of translation history matters, this conference aims to stress why, how and for which purposes translation history matters.  

This conference will be organized in five plenary lectures and multiple parallel sessions on different topics such as the following:
 

• Translation and History: On-going Projects to Map Translation
• Translation in History: Main Periods and Trends
• Translators in History
• Translation Studies in History
• Translation Theory in History
• Method in Translation History
• Historiography: Main Issues in Translation History
• Translating Otherness: Eastern configurations of Western Identities
• Translating Otherness: Western configurations of Eastern Identities
• East and West Encounters in Translation: Main Issues and Protagonists

(The above arrangement of parallel sessions are subjected to change according to the paper submitted)

Call for paper:

(1)   Date: 26-27 September, 2013

(2)   Topics:

§  Translation and History: On-going Projects to Map Translation

§  Translation in History: Main Periods and Trends

§  Translators in History

§  Translation Studies in History

§  Translation Theory in History

§  Method in Translation History

§  Historiography: Main Issues in Translation History

§  Translating Otherness: Eastern configurations of Western Identities

§  Translating Otherness: Western configurations of Eastern Identities

§  East and West Encounters in Translation: Main Issues and Protagonists

(3)   Abstract Proposals

The paper submitted should be within 20-minute.

English or Spanish papers are submitted to east.west.conference2013@gmail.com;

Chinese papers are submitted to east.west.conference2013@live.com

Papers submitted should be in Microsoft Word and include:

     Title of Paper,

     Name,

     Institutional Affiliation,

     Abstract (500 words in English),

     Bio-Note (max. 100 words, mentioning main research interests, projects and selected publications),

     Audiovisual Requirements,

     Language of Presentation,

     5 Keywords.

(4) Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2013

Communication of Acceptance: 26 July 2013

(5)Conference Languages: 

The language of this scientific meeting is English. Papers in Chinese and Portuguese will also be accepted. Paper proposals must be submitted in English.  There will be no interpreting during the conference

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来源网站：http://sti.sysu.edu.cn/en/EWCTS2013/Call%20for%20Papers