‘Translations: Exchange of Ideas’ 2013
Themed Interdisciplinary Conference 
“Indeed, it seems to me that translation sets us not only intellectual work, theoretical or practical, but also an ethical problem. Bringing the reader to the author, bringing the author to the reader, at the risk of serving and of betraying two masters: this is to practise what I like to call linguistic hospitality. It is this which serves as a model for other forms of hospitality that I think resemble it: confessions, religions, are they not like languages that are foreign to one another, with their lexicon, their grammar, their rhetoric, their stylistics which we must learn in order to make our way into them? And is eucharistic hospitality not to be taken up with the same risks of translation-betrayal, but also with the same renunciation of the perfect translation?”
(Paul Ricoeur, On Translation)
Considering translation as both a linguistic and ontological phenomenon, this conference centres on the exchange of ideas across the humanities and social sciences. We are looking for doctoral students from a variety of disciplines to consider how the theme of translation relates to their own research and how their work relates to other researchers both within their subject area and in different disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Some of the most important intellectual ideas have emerged in the crossing of disciplinary boundaries and this conference would like to consider how this interdisciplinary exchange and translation of ideas functions today.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Eileen Brennan (St Patrick’s College Drumcondra)
Dr Elizabeth Wren-Owens (Cardiff University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
See our YouTube video here!
Translations 2013 – Call for Papers
A conference booking form is available to download below (see ‘Related Resources’).
WHO CAN ATTEND
The conference,which is free to attend, is open to all MPhils and PhDs across the humanities and social sciences from departments and institutions across Wales, the UK and overseas. Limited accommodation in student halls of residence is available on a first come first served basis at a cost of £28.08 per night (including breakfast).
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