A forthcoming conference asking some intriguing questions:
A NORTH-SOUTH ENCOUNTER OR DIVIDE?
Different Forms of Translation Scholarship in Europe
One-day Symposium at Lessius Antwerp, Wed 10 Oct 2012
Organisers: Luc van Doorslaer & Peter Flynn (CETRA & Lessius)
There
are various traditions in translation scholarship and research which
are less well known, often paradoxically, because
they have not been translated into the dominant language(s) of
scholarship: among such traditions are those in the German-speaking
countries and Eastern-Europe (viz. important work by scholars like Jírí
Levý, which dates back to the 1960’s and 1970’s, and
has only recently been made available in English). On the other hand,
new geographical and cultural encounters and/or borderlines are being
constructed, explored and deconstructed – viz. the conference called
‘Translating from the South’. In this respect,
conference participants often encounter different paradigms and
traditions in Translation Studies or in translation scholarship under
whatever name, depending on the session they are attending. Broadly
speaking, these differences are stereotypically explained
in terms of a seeming ‘divide’ between Germanic (and later Anglophone)
and Romance scholarly traditions in Europe. This can give rise to such
surprised questions as ‘Toury, c’est qui?’ or ‘Ladmiral, who the hell is
he?’ Yet the seminal work of these and other
scholars has helped form these different traditions and as the saying
goes: “the past is a foreign country”. We can wonder then to what extent
scholarly language use and methods stem from different more local,
situated or historical approaches to and views
on the object of study. To what extent did these various objects and
concerns shape subsequent methodologies and theorizing in general? Did
encounters take place or were lines of division drawn during these
developments and if so which? This symposium will
address these and other questions in an attempt to gain insight into
how language and culture might determine translation scholarship and its
various methodological traditions and concerns.
See symposium website https://www.lessius.eu/northsouth
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