World Words: The 1st Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies Translation & Networking

School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa November 14-15, 2014

Call for Papers

Confirmed Key-Note Speaker:
Sherry Simon (Concordia University)

Conference Theme:

The School of Translation and Interpretation and its Graduate Student Association (STIGSA) at University of Ottawa have the pleasure to announce World Words: The First uOttawa Annual Graduate Student Conference in Translation Studies, to be held on November 14-15, 2014. Our purpose is to provide emerging researchers of various backgrounds with an opportunity to share the results of their work on translation and its power of bringing people together.

In its delicate, yet privileged position as an interdisciplinary field, translation studies has been looked at through various lenses for a long time, while research has been impacted by a wide range of theoretical and empirical perspectives: from post-colonialism to sociology, from anthropology to socio-cognitive science, etc. But the encounter between people, communities, societies, and cultures has been at the core of the field at all times. It is through communication that Translation Studies has always related to other disciplines, positioning itself in a wide network of practical and theoretical knowledge. In 1999, Bruno Latour argued that the older usage of network involved a series of transformations (traductions), but that a more recent one came to express exactly the opposite—that is, transport without deformation. Twenty-five years later, we endeavor to examine more closely how the theory and practice of translation position themselves in relation to such a complex concept.

We invite submissions addressing diverse topics, with a focus on the networks of translation and translation studies and how they connect with other areas of knowledge, as well as with various industries. More.

See: TraInter uOttawa

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