Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories: March 5-6, 2009, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

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• Call For Papers: Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories

-- March 5-6, 2009

-- Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

-- This conference seeks to convene scholars from the region and beyond who are working on various aspects of the study of translation across Asia. In particular it will focus on attempts to better understand and theorize how translation as an ideological act, as an artistic endeavor, as an opening to unknown terrain ? was understood and practiced within Asian societies during particular historical moments. This call is issued for papers discussing current research on translation in Southeast, South and East Asian cultures with an emphasis on the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries. However, we will also be open to considering how earlier forms of translation continue to echo in Asian societies in the present.

-- Themes that are of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Theorizing translation in Asian contexts (moving beyond the descriptive)

The interplay between vernacular and cosmopolitan languages in translation (for example Javanese and Arabic; Tamil and Sanskrit; Malay and English)

Practices and techniques

Translation movements and their histories

Training translators: translation academies, translation manuals

Translation prefaces (justifications, goals, ideologies as expressed by translators)

Translators' patronage systems

Ideology and translation

Poetics of translation

Translations and the development of languages and education

Cultures and cannons: what gets translated?

Explicit and implicit in translation traditions

Translation in Asia in a comparative perspective

New directions: what, if anything, can exploring translation in Asian contexts contribute to wider debates about translation?

-- SUBMISSION DETAILS: Paper proposals should include a 250-word abstract. A concise CV and short biography should also be submitted with the abstract by 31 October 2008. Please submit and address all applications to Miss Sharon Ong <arios@nus.edu.sg>of the Asia Research Institute. Successful applicants will be notifed by 15 November 2008 and will be required to send in a completed paper by 1 February 2009. Based on the quality of proposals and availability of funds, partial or full funding may be granted to successful applicants. Board and lodging for the duration of the workshop will be provided to every participant.

-- See the website for the submission form: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=851

-- Workshop Convenors: Dr Ronit Ricci (arirr@nus.edu.sg) - Asia Research Institute, NUS; Dr Jan van der Putten (mlsjvdp@nus.edu.sg) - Malay Studies Department, NUS Secretariat: Miss Sharon Ong, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, #10-01 Tower Block,469A Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259770, Email: <arios@nus.edu.sg>