CFP: 𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲)
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
"𝑪𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔: 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂"
Translation (Latin: carrying or bringing across) is no longer considered a simple literary or linguistic activity of translating a text from one language to another. Rather, it now encompasses and evokes a range of speech acts of translating thoughts and emotions into words, sign and body language into verbal expression, translations to and from languages of the same family, translations into other language families, translating words into performance or multimedia texts, and/or vice-versa. Carrying or bringing across a sense of equivalent time, history, place, nationality, culture, gender, religion, sexuality, caste, class into another asymmetric linguistic or social terrain is no easy feat despite digital technologies making translations more accessible, prevalent and frantic every day. Translations involve transcreation, transmutation, adaptation as well as interpretation. In contemporary times, when mis-communication and mis-translation seem to prevail all around us in the world, the task of more or better translations remains urgent for facilitating mutual understanding and communication.
Translation in South Asia is as unique as a region itself. South Asia as a region is both old as well as new, existing in an unbroken web of interconnections continuing since ancient times framed by the ecological terrain of the Indian Plate and the Indian Ocean, as well as arriving anew from the more recent area studies departments of the West to encompass a joint gaze at countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Home to over 650 languages belonging to six notable language schools, namely, the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Great Andamanese (Source: World Literature). The region is one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse and rich in the world while sharing many customs and cultural practices with each other. The experience of colonialism was common among many peoples of the region. In fact, colonial modernity was negotiated in the region through translation when works of new/western knowledge were translated massively into the languages of the region. Conversely, classical texts from this region were translated into European languages by leading Indologists, leading to increased awareness in the West about the East, what Raymond Schwab termed as ‘Oriental Renaissance’.
So, is translation in South Asia an act of inter-cultural translation or intra-cultural translation? Inter-cultural translation is an act of retrieval wherein marginalized writers and their works can be discovered by means of translation, particularly women writers belonging to marginalized communities who experience multiple marginalizations at various levels right from the actual creative exercise to the publication of their texts. In a decolonized world, translation, transcreation and adaptation contribute majorly towards discovering and/or consolidating literary canons. In intra-cultural translations, linguistic chauvinism can play a role in marginalizing not only a language but also a culture. Intra cultural translations of texts between sister languages can help reach out to larger readerships. Inter and intra cultural self-translation exercises are often undertaken by bilingual writers and authors looking for larger outreach. In postcolonial times, the objectives of translation, whether inter-cultural or intra-cultural, should be to subvert the hegemony of the dominant/prestige languages and literatures and redress the asymmetry between dominant literatures and minor languages/literatures.
As mentioned in the beginning of this CFP, Translation Studies in recent time has expanded its canon to embrace diverse domains of learning such as Colonialism, Film Studies, Anthropology, Geography, Refugee/Migration Studies, Memory Studies etc. This was signalled more than a decade ago by Maria Tymoczko in her book Enlarging Translation: Empowering Translators. The Conference will explore convergences and intersectionalities of Translation Studies with other modes, mediums and domains of scholarship. For example, when Satyajit Ray ‘translates’ Tagore’s Noshto Neer into his film Charulata, or the famous painter A R Chughtai ‘translates’ Ghalib’s verses into masterpieces of painting, or Marie Chouinard ‘translates’ Jérôme Bosch’s cluster of paintings known as Les Jardin Des Délices (Garden of Delights) into a masterpiece of choreography, we get to see how intermedial translation collapses boundaries imposed by different mediums and results in new interpretations and illumination of the ‘original text’. Moreover, South Asian literary cultures, particularly during the precolonial, premodern, preprint periods, exhibited ample instances of 'translation' from oral/aural to written, oral/written to mnemonical, verbal to visual, and vice versa. Translation, in these contexts, becomes a complex process that circulates, mediates, and negotiates between ideas scattered over a larger public sphere, which in turn also regulates their movements and accessibility within cultural realms. The conference visualises translation as a dynamic factor in the construction of a multimedial literary cultures in South Asia.
Papers are invited on the following sub-themes:
◆ Translation and Modernity in South Asia
◆ Translation as Cultural Negotiation
◆ Translation and Literary Historiography
◆ Intermedial Translations
◆ Translation and Multilinguality
◆ Translating Literary Forms/Genre
◆ South Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare and modern/avant garde playwrights
◆ Translation and Archival Research in South Asia
𝙂𝙐𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙎
The conference is open 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝑨𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑳𝑺.
(Please visit https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html to know how to become a member)
𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 (𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬) 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐨-𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 (𝐦𝐚𝐱 𝟕𝟎 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬) 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏, to 𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of Abstracts by: 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
Acceptance of Abstracts by: 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
Registration: 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Registration Fees: Rs 500/ for research scholars and Rs. 800/ for employees.
If you wish to be considered for 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝑫 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒂𝒉 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, please submit complete papers latest by 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Kindly indicate ‘Submission for CDN Prize’ in the subject line of the email, to 𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢.
For more details, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
All other participants should also submit their papers by 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 in no more than 3500-4000 words, to 𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢.
Please note that presenters shall have fifteen minutes to read their papers.
Registration to be completed by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 (details will be sent along with acceptances).
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗷𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 in the previous block of two years (2020-21) by a member of the IACLALS.
For MMM Prize submission guidelines, do visit:
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
In accordance with the detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines available on the website page listed above, you can submit your published paper to 𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢, latest by 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Please be sure to indicate ‘Submission for MMM Prize’ in the subject line of the email.
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Translation (Latin: carrying or bringing across) is no longer considered a simple literary or linguistic activity of translating a text from one language to another. Rather, it now encompasses and evokes a range of speech acts of translating thoughts and emotions into words, sign and body language into verbal expression, translations to and from languages of the same family, translations into other language families, translating words into performance or multimedia texts, and/or vice-versa. Carrying or bringing across a sense of equivalent time, history, place, nationality, culture, gender, religion, sexuality, caste, class into another asymmetric linguistic or social terrain is no easy feat despite digital technologies making translations more accessible, prevalent and frantic every day. Translations involve transcreation, transmutation, adaptation as well as interpretation. In contemporary times, when mis-communication and mis-translation seem to prevail all around us in the world, the task of more or better translations remains urgent for facilitating mutual understanding and communication.
Translation in South Asia is as unique as a region itself. South Asia as a region is both old as well as new, existing in an unbroken web of interconnections continuing since ancient times framed by the ecological terrain of the Indian Plate and the Indian Ocean, as well as arriving anew from the more recent area studies departments of the West to encompass a joint gaze at countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Home to over 650 languages belonging to six notable language schools, namely, the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Great Andamanese (Source: World Literature). The region is one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse and rich in the world while sharing many customs and cultural practices with each other. The experience of colonialism was common among many peoples of the region. In fact, colonial modernity was negotiated in the region through translation when works of new/western knowledge were translated massively into the languages of the region. Conversely, classical texts from this region were translated into European languages by leading Indologists, leading to increased awareness in the West about the East, what Raymond Schwab termed as ‘Oriental Renaissance’.
So, is translation in South Asia an act of inter-cultural translation or intra-cultural translation? Inter-cultural translation is an act of retrieval wherein marginalized writers and their works can be discovered by means of translation, particularly women writers belonging to marginalized communities who experience multiple marginalizations at various levels right from the actual creative exercise to the publication of their texts. In a decolonized world, translation, transcreation and adaptation contribute majorly towards discovering and/or consolidating literary canons. In intra-cultural translations, linguistic chauvinism can play a role in marginalizing not only a language but also a culture. Intra cultural translations of texts between sister languages can help reach out to larger readerships. Inter and intra cultural self-translation exercises are often undertaken by bilingual writers and authors looking for larger outreach. In postcolonial times, the objectives of translation, whether inter-cultural or intra-cultural, should be to subvert the hegemony of the dominant/prestige languages and literatures and redress the asymmetry between dominant literatures and minor languages/literatures.
As mentioned in the beginning of this CFP, Translation Studies in recent time has expanded its canon to embrace diverse domains of learning such as Colonialism, Film Studies, Anthropology, Geography, Refugee/Migration Studies, Memory Studies etc. This was signalled more than a decade ago by Maria Tymoczko in her book Enlarging Translation: Empowering Translators. The Conference will explore convergences and intersectionalities of Translation Studies with other modes, mediums and domains of scholarship. For example, when Satyajit Ray ‘translates’ Tagore’s Noshto Neer into his film Charulata, or the famous painter A R Chughtai ‘translates’ Ghalib’s verses into masterpieces of painting, or Marie Chouinard ‘translates’ Jérôme Bosch’s cluster of paintings known as Les Jardin Des Délices (Garden of Delights) into a masterpiece of choreography, we get to see how intermedial translation collapses boundaries imposed by different mediums and results in new interpretations and illumination of the ‘original text’. Moreover, South Asian literary cultures, particularly during the precolonial, premodern, preprint periods, exhibited ample instances of 'translation' from oral/aural to written, oral/written to mnemonical, verbal to visual, and vice versa. Translation, in these contexts, becomes a complex process that circulates, mediates, and negotiates between ideas scattered over a larger public sphere, which in turn also regulates their movements and accessibility within cultural realms. The conference visualises translation as a dynamic factor in the construction of a multimedial literary cultures in South Asia.
Papers are invited on the following sub-themes:
◆ Translation and Modernity in South Asia
◆ Translation as Cultural Negotiation
◆ Translation and Literary Historiography
◆ Intermedial Translations
◆ Translation and Multilinguality
◆ Translating Literary Forms/Genre
◆ South Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare and modern/avant garde playwrights
◆ Translation and Archival Research in South Asia
𝙂𝙐𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙎
The conference is open 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝑨𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑳𝑺.
(Please visit https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html to know how to become a member)
𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 (𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬) 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐨-𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 (𝐦𝐚𝐱 𝟕𝟎 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬) 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏, to 𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of Abstracts by: 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
Acceptance of Abstracts by: 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
Registration: 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Registration Fees: Rs 500/ for research scholars and Rs. 800/ for employees.
If you wish to be considered for 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝑫 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒂𝒉 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, please submit complete papers latest by 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Kindly indicate ‘Submission for CDN Prize’ in the subject line of the email, to 𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢.
For more details, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
All other participants should also submit their papers by 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 in no more than 3500-4000 words, to 𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢.
Please note that presenters shall have fifteen minutes to read their papers.
Registration to be completed by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 (details will be sent along with acceptances).
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗷𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 in the previous block of two years (2020-21) by a member of the IACLALS.
For MMM Prize submission guidelines, do visit:
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
In accordance with the detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines available on the website page listed above, you can submit your published paper to 𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢, latest by 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Please be sure to indicate ‘Submission for MMM Prize’ in the subject line of the email.
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IACLALS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021
INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES (IACLALS)
in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 (Online)
on
UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS IN OUR TIMES
MARCH 18-20, 2021
Keynote Address: MARCH 17, 2021
Conference Schedule: iaclals_2021_annual_international_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2021_annual_conference_abstracts_booklet.pdf
All sessions are available to view on our Facebook Page.
in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 (Online)
on
UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS IN OUR TIMES
MARCH 18-20, 2021
Keynote Address: MARCH 17, 2021
Conference Schedule: iaclals_2021_annual_international_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2021_annual_conference_abstracts_booklet.pdf
All sessions are available to view on our Facebook Page.
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Report: IACLALS ANNUAL CONFERENCE (Online) 2021 (coming soon)
