Autor: GKS

Joint annual conference of GAPS (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien) and IACPL (International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics), University of Bremen, May 30 – June 2, 2019

Postcolonial studies have a vested interest in embodied and discursive, social and political, historical and ecological dimensions of oceans. They foreground histories of colonization, imperial wars, the dispossession of territories, enslavement of people, and circulation of goods and ideas, in their entanglements with contemporary postcolonial societies, substantially shaping decolonial knowledge production, postcolonial literatures and academic discourses until today.

See the Call for Papers here.

Submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2018.

Canadian Comparative Literature Association, HSS Congress at UBC in Vancouver, June 2-5, 2019

We are organizing a session on ‘Comparative Canadian Literature: New Directions’ for the HSS Congress 2019 at UBC in Vancouver, June 2-5.  Building on the work of pioneers in the comparative studies of Canadian writing such as Ron Sutherland, Clément Moisan, Patricia Smart, E.D. Blodgett, Barbara Godard, Philip Stratford and others the session will explore new directions which have emerged since 2000.  Speakers can consider these suggested topics: English-French literary exchanges in Canada; English-Canadian and Quebec women writers; European theory in English Canada and Quebec; The role of translation and/or self-translation; The role of gender identity among Canadian and Quebec authors; Indigenous writers in English Canada and Quebec; Indigenous languages and literatures; Ethnic minority writing in English Canada and Quebec; Individual bilingual authors; New media used in English Canada and Quebec.

Deadline: Nov. 5, 2018.

Université Concordia, 25 janvier 2019

Appel à communications

Ancrée dans la réalité de son époque, la presse écrite représente une source d’informations précieuse pour étudier tant les évènements les plus importants que les faits mineurs. La presse, qui joue un rôle important dans la propagation des idées et la diffusion des débats, fait souvent appel à des sources d’information étrangères et en langues étrangères. C’est le cas de la presse actuelle mais également de la presse ancienne.

Située entre la traductologie et le journalisme, la traduction dans la presse (aussi appelée« traduction journalistique » ou « traduction de nouvelles ») est considérée comme un type de traduction spécialisée, directement liée à la compilation, à la production et à la dissémination de nouvelles à partir de sources en langue étrangère (Palmer, 2008; van Doorslaer, 2010). Tel que signalé par plusieurs spécialistes, la traduction dans la presse n’a pas attiré l’attention qu’elle mérite, malgré son omniprésence et son importance (Bielsa, 2007; Hernández Guerrero, 2009; Valdeón, 2010; van Doorslaer, 2010). Enfait, la traduction est continuellement reléguée au second plan et reste presque toujours invisible (Hernández Guerrero, 2005).

Date limite: 9 novembre 2018.

International Conference, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 22 May – 24 May 2019

The word ecology appears to be on everyone’s lips today, but it is seldom scrutinized. Even though the term stems from biology and was defined as the „study of the economy, of the household, of animal organisms“ (which „includes the relationships of animals with both the inorganic and organic environments“) by Ernst Haeckel in the 1870s, it seems to be used interchangeably with terms such as ‘environment’ or ‘environmentalism’ today.

The revisiting and re-evaluation of ecology, (not only) in the broadest and traditional meaning of the term, becomes increasingly pressing today in the context of ideologies, new scientific breakthroughs or backlashes in the fight against global warming, for example. In 2018, the so called Earth Overshoot Day, which marks the date when humanity has „used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year,“ (overshootday.org) fell on August 1 – the earliest date so far. This day raises awareness of mankind’s position within ecology and, by extension, also ties in with human beings‘ position in a glocal world.

Our conference aims at overcoming simplistic conceptions of ‚ecology‘ and at exploring the potential of the term as a perspective, vantage point, concept and epistemological approach. As Tucker and Bates (4) stress, „All ecological study is at once multidisciplinary“ and such inter- or multidisciplinary study is needed in order to explore contemporary ecological issues. We thus want to transcend the boundaries of disciplines and approaches to build fruitful relationships and establish bonds between disciplines such as History, Media, Arts and Culture, Economy, Politics, Natural Sciences, Linguistics etc.

Deadline for submissions: Nov. 15, 2018.