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The Third Asian Translation Traditions Conference
Location: Boğaziçi, Turkey
Period: October 22-24, 2008
Deadline to submit papers: December 1, 2007
Program
The focus will be on translational exchanges among non-Western languages and change and continuity in the translation traditions of specific cultures ensuing from contacts with other cultures.
One day of the conference will be allocated to a discussion of the Ottoman/Turkish translation tradition.
The organizers invite papers on any of the topics outlined below:
- Overcoming the contestable and clichéd concepts of "East" and "West" as applied to Translation Studies
- How Western translation concepts have influenced and classified non-Western translation traditions, and vice versa, and whether these changes have met with resistance
- The role of translators in history, their contribution to archives and history-making
- Translators as circulators of ideas, and their role in the modernization of non-Western cultures
- Travellers as translators and translators as travellers in crosscultural encounters
- Interpreting traditions and interpreters as cross-border agents in non-Western cultures
Organizer & Partners
- Boğaziçi University, Turkey (sehnaz.tahir@boun.edu.tr)
- Kent State University, USA (jwakabay@kent.edu)
- Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran (farahzadatu@yahoo.com)
- Mudra Institute of Communications, India (rita.abhijit@gmail.com)
Instruction for the authors
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2007
Please email submissions must include the following information: (1) Author's name(s), (2) postal address, (3) phone number, (4) fax number, (5) e-mail address, (6) title of paper, and (7) abstract (maximum of 250 words)
Send your e mail to any of organizers
Write an a-mail: sehnaz.tahir@boun.edu.tr
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