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‘Translation,
Trauma and Silence’:
A Work-in-Progress Workshop
Friday, 12
April 2013
IASH,
University of Edinburgh
This
workshop aims to provide scholars, working in different disciplines and in
different languages, with an interdisciplinary forum in which to explore the
intersections between translation (understood in its interlingual, multimodal
and metaphoric senses), trauma and/or silence.
Contributions
are invited from scholars from any discipline whose work intersects with one or
more of the broad themes translation, trauma and/or silence.
Issues
and challenges addressed might include the textualization of trauma and of
silence, the mediation of traumatic experience, (mis)communication,
distortions, corrections and loss, censorships, exposures and revelations, the
ethics of speaking and of knowing, and different cultural coding of silence or
trauma. Concerns regarding the limitations, the frustrations and the potential
of words will be at the forefront of the workshop.
Sessions
may take the form of paper/discussion, panel discussion or more informal
workshop: proposals for hour-long sessions are welcomed. We would particularly
welcome contributions from postgraduates and contract researchers.
The
workshop will include contributions from two keynote speakers:
Prof.
Jean Boase-Beier (University of East Anglia): ‘Translating Celan’s
Silences’
Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University):
‘The Silence of the Polyglot: an Inarticulate
Darkness’
Proposed
outcomes:
• to
identify synergies between existing theoretical and methodological approaches
to translation, trauma and silence;
• to
explore interdisciplinary approaches that critique current theories and
methods;
• to
open up new avenues of research and facilitate potential collaborations;
• to
generate ideas for channels of knowledge exchange;
• to
support a larger funding bid to the AHRC on translating Holocaust testimonies
To register for
the event or to submit a proposal, please get in touch with Sharon Deane-Cox (sharon.deane@ed.ac.uk) before 15th
March 2013.
