CFA- Summer School on Cultural Translation, Halle, Germany
Posted by: Ildiko Beller-Hann <ildiko.beller-hann@owz.uni-halle.de>
The Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems at the
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany invites
applications for a Summer School on Cultural Translation to be held
in Halle/Saale, Germany 13.07.08 - 20.07.08
The Summer School is intended as a forum to introduce students to the
notion of cultural translation with reference to both theoretical and
empirical perspectives. Understood as a key concept for the
description of social change, "translation" is used here as both the
discourse about and practice of socially and politically embedded
processes produced and informed by cultural encounters.
The Summer School aims to introduce participating postgraduate
students to situate their research in the context of international
scholarship and help them identify directions for further independent
work through introducing them to ongoing academic research and
debates in the field of cultural translation. It also aims to open up
new perspectives in understanding cultural encounters not as a
disruptive activity but as an ultimately creative and constructive
process, which conceives mediation between different registers of
cultural exchange as a continuum.
It aims at making students ask (if not necessarily answer) questions
such as: How do we recognize, identify, account for and explain
cultural encounters? What does it mean to translate texts or other
cultural products? What sort of relationships can be revealed between
author and text, original and copy, and how can such complex webs of
relationships be (dis)entangled and rendered comprehensible? What role
does translation play in the transmission of knowledge and in the
dissemination of information? How does translation construct
representations of marginalized groups or cultures? What sorts of
intended (and unintended) strategies are involved in the process of
cultural translation and how do these relate to the respective
ideological and political contexts? What factors account for the
success and failure of translation in specific historical contexts?
It is envisaged that students will be able to benefit from informal
discussions with all participants, and that the exposure to
disciplines other than their own will give them new impulses which in
turn can serve as a source of inspiration for their own research.
Students will also have an opportunity to present and discuss their
ongoing projects, to receive feedback from their peers, and from the
participating faculty.
The invited lecturers represent a wide range of subjects, underlining
the interdisciplinary nature of the study of cultural translation.
Historians and anthropologists, literary scholars and translation
studies experts have been invited alongside scholars representing
Arabic, Persian and Tibetan Studies whose work intersects with the
perspective of cultural translation.
The working language of the Summer School is English; teaching is
planned for six working days.
Participants are expected to pay a registration fee of 100 EUR. There
is no tuition fee. Accommodation and travel expenses will be paid by
us.
Applicants should be registered PhD students whose proposed research
focuses on, or would greatly benefit from, the academic discourses on
cultural translation, and whose work is regionally directly related
to African or Asian societies and cultures.
Applicants are asked to send
- a cover letter
- a CV
- the title of their research project and details of their academic
affiliation
- a reference letter from the supervisor
to: Dr. Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems
Mühlweg 15
Halle/Saale
D - 06114
Germany
Application deadline: 10 May 2008
Contact e-mail: ildiko.beller-hann@owz.uni-halle.de
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