Call For Papers: Re-framing the Archive: The Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia (London, June 2017)

Abstract Deadline: February 17, 2017

Location: SOAS University,United Kingdom

In recent years, the decision to engage with colonial and postcolonial archives has become increasingly commonplace within Southeast Asian film, photography and visual culture. Whilst this renewed interest in archival materials has resulted in an increased awareness of the complexities of lens-based media, it has also allowed practitioners to challenge both the dominant narratives of colonialism and their neo- and postcolonial legacies. In the case of Cambodia and its diasporas, this archival impulse – and its accompanying modes of (re-) appropriation – is exemplified by films such as Rithy Panh’s La France est notre patrie [‘France is our Homeland’] and Davy Chou’s Golden Slumbers. Whereas the former offers an insight into the hypocrisies of French colonial rule, the latter takes its lead from the development of twentieth century Cambodian cinema. Yet despite differing in their aims and emphases, these projects share a number of common characteristics – namely, a desire to foreground the importance of preserving and revisiting archival materials: two imperatives which have acquired a particular significance in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Taking its lead from these recent developments, this symposium will explore the ways in which colonial and postcolonial film and photographic archives have been rearticulated within a range of Southeast Asian political and aesthetic contexts. How have artists and filmmakers sought to subvert existing power relations through the use of colonial images? To what extent have archival materials and technologies allowed for an investigation into the emancipatory potential of the lens? How have these techniques been utilised by diasporic populations? Though preference will be given to submissions which focus on Southeast Asia, we also welcome papers that draw comparisons with other postcolonial contexts. Possible lines of enquiry include:

• The political and aesthetic implications of re-situating images
• Hindu-Buddhist aesthetic conventions and their use/subversion in colonial and postcolonial lens-based practices
• The ethics, politics and artistic innovations of documentary work
• Contemporary artistic practices which explore the themes of space, place and home
• The return of European filmmakers and photographers to the postcolony.

The symposium will be accompanied by screenings of two feature-length films by Cambodian filmmakers and a series of short films by emerging filmmakers from Southeast Asia. This programme, we believe, will provide a further opportunity to address the themes raised by the symposium.

The conference and screening programme are organised by Dr Joanna Wolfarth, Dr Fiona Allen, and Annie Jael Kwan independent curator, The Asia Projector.

To submit a paper, please send paper titles, abstracts of c. 500 words and a 2-page CV to reframingthearchive@gmail.com

Deadline for abstracts: 17th February 2017

Contact Info: 

Dr Fiona Allen, Dr Joanna Wolfarth and Annie Jael Kwan

Contact Email: 

reframingthearchive@gmail.com

URL: 

https://www.soas.ac.uk/cseas/events/01jun2017-reframing-the-archive-the-reuse-of-film-and-photographic-images-in-postcol...

CFP: Funded Conference on City and the Process of Transition – from Early Modern Times to the Present

University of Wroclaw, June 8th – 10th 2017

Deadline: Extended up to February 28, 2017.

Location: Poland

Subject Fields: European History / Studies, Humanities, Modern European History / Studies, Urban History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies

The Doctoral Adam Galos Circle for the History of the 19th and the 20th Centuries invites PhD students and early career scholars to participate in the international conference titled City and the Process of Transition – from Early Modern Times to the Present to be held at the Historical Institute of the University of Wroclaw, June 8th – 10th 2017. The intention of the organizers is to challenge questions concerning the behavior of the city dwellers who faced the lack of stability, resulted primarily from the progressive urbanization and globalization since the early modern era.

We propose to focus on the following issues:

1) Authority and Citizens

We encourage to consider relations between state power and municipal self-government, as well as the attitudes of both of these authorities towards city dwellers. The proposals may address the impact of the policy applied by different levels of officials in terms of: hygiene, health, safety, justice, culture (education, art, fashion), customs (beliefs, mentality, values) or interpersonal relations (clientelism, rivalry, conflicts of interest). Lastly, the question of political and social emancipation of different groups of inhabitants will be equally important.

2) Multicultural Relations

A city was (and still is) an area of a constant inflow of people from outside. One may recall the history of Jewish settlement or the 19th and the 20thcentury migrations. Hence, the cultural diversity in the urban space was present in different spheres: public, private, intimate. Therefore, the key topics and themes of this part of the conference will include attitudes towards migrants and the coexistence of different ethnic, religious and cultural groups (their adaptation, assimilation, integration).

3) Between Ideal and Reality

People have always created a vision of "ideal city": Atlantis, Heavenly Jerusalem, Campanella’s City of the Sun, Le Corbusier's Chandigarh, Niemayer’s Brasilia until today's Jing-Jin-Ji. We would like to confront the idea of the ideal city and real transformations of the urban space, but also to elucidate the consequences of the city’s 'expansion' into suburban areas together with the influence of urbanization and economic changes on daily life.

The aforementioned perspectives suggest the main directions of discussion, although other proposals dealing with the main theme of the conference are also invited.

We are committed to establish an interdisciplinary forum, hence the invitation is addressed to representatives of various scientific disciplines: historians, art historians, architects, urban planners, ethnologists, anthropologists, cultural studies experts, sociologists, literary scholars, psychologists etc.

Conference languages: Polish, English

The submission of paper proposals (the limit of words: 350) should be done by 28th February 2017 via the registration form below:

https://cityandtheprocessoftransition.wufoo.com/forms/z1nf6fwi0ydkrie/

Applications will be considered by the members of the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences of the University of Wroclaw. The notification as to whether the proposal has been accepted will be sent by 15 th March 2017.

The organizers do not cover accommodation or travel expenses, but they are responsible for conference materials, meals and publication. There is no additional conference fee.

Academic Advisory Board:

Prof. Grzegorz Hryciuk

Prof. Malgorzata Ruchniewicz

Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz

Prof. Grzegorz Strauchold

Prof. Leszek Ziatkowski

Contact Info: 

Enquiries regarding any aspect of the conference:

Magdalena Gibiec magdalena.gibiec@uwr.edu.pl

Please visit our website for more information:

https://cityandtheprocessoftransitionconference.wordpress.com/

Dorota Wisniewska dorota.wisniewska@uwr.edu.pl

Contact Email: 

magdalena.gibiec@uwr.edu.pl

URL: 

https://cityandtheprocessoftransitionconference.wordpress.com/

International  Conference on Formation of Culture in Diaspora

General problematics of the conference

The definition of the concept of «diaspora» is one of the major questions under discussion in contemporary social sciences, both from a theoretical and from a practical point of view. Different fields of research, such as history, ethnology, cultural anthropology, sociology, political science tend to use the term with different meanings. As a consequence, some specific definitions of the word “diaspora” can occasionally contradict one another. The present project does not pretend to solve these problems of terminology nor does it intend to present the whole spectrum of diasporas existing in the modern world, or known from historical sources. The material of our project will deal with three diasporas usually considered as classical examples of this phenomenon, as “stereotypical ethnic diasporas” which have long and complex histories: the Jewish, the Greek and the Armenian diasporas. As is well known, the word “diaspora” (from Ancient Greek: διασπορά) was first employed during the Hellenistic period to designate the scattered Jewish population, and it was, later on, also used for Armenian and Greek communities. This choice of material has the advantage to narrow down the broad problematics of research about diasporas in order to precisely formulate the core problem which this project intends to discuss: the mechanisms presiding over the formation of culture in classical (prototypical) diasporic societies (in “mobilized diasporas”, to use the terminology of the American scholar J. Armstrong; or, as the Israeli specialist G. Sheffner calls them, in “diasporas with historical roots”).

The problem thus defined can be treated both at the level of macro-phenomena and at the level of micro-phenomena. On the one side, the studies involved in the conference will take into account the larger context and address some of the central questions of contemporary research concerning the evolution of a culture in a multiethnic, multiconfessional and multilinguistic society. The formation and the cultural particularities of diasporic societies offer a unique material to study the following phenomena: the general trends of contemporary culture towards heterogeneity; the processes of cultural divergence, convergence and synthesis; the coexistence of centripetal (archaizing, conservative) and centrifugal (innovative, assimilatory) orientations in the development of communities. On the other side, the conference will aim at defining the concept of diasporic culture and at distinguishing it from other forms of culture having some typological similarity. It will focus on the following preliminary hypothesis: a diasporic community develops a particular type of culture based on specific social, religious and communicative practices, textual traditions, symbolic interpretations of historical events (charged with ethnic or religious significations), etc.

The increased geographic mobility of people and the easier access to developed means of transportation has stimulated the formation of diasporas in the contemporary world: the number of diasporic communities and the rhythm of their creation have grown. In the last decades, the process of globalization has tended to erase the old frontiers between ethnic groups. It has caused a homogenization of national economic, political and cultural differences and, finally, a diminution in the significance of national identities for small communities as well as for some more numerous ethnic and cultural groups. Nevertheless, the reality of the beginning of the 21st century witnesses a contradictory trend: the economic and political globalization in Asia and in Europe has led to the growth of diasporas which goes hand in hand with the intensity of migratory processes and with the slow political and cultural adaptation and assimilation of the migrants. These new diasporas have created new mechanisms of social development; they have developed new forms of dialogues between religious and ethnic groups and they have also, without doubts, engaged in new conflicts. In these conditions, a study of the processes which lead to the development of a diaspora are all the more actual that it is nowadays necessary to predict the evolution of smaller social and ethnic groups within a society.

The core idea of the planned conference is based on the hypothesis that there exist universal processes of cultural development in classical diasporic communities. One of the tasks of the conference is directly linked to this first stance: to create a methodological basis to describe diasporic cultures and to produce a typological comparative analysis of the social and ethnic processes in the three diasporas under study. The methods which will make possible the resolution of the fundamental questions of this conference will also have to be innovative. Only an interdisciplinary approach can lead to the exhaustive study of diasporic communities in all their variety.

Other more specific issues addressed by this project have received little, or no attention from contemporary research. The study of the development of classical diasporas in recent times supposes to deal with the following themes: 1) repatriation and the representations it implies about the “new” and “old” homeland; 2) the role of modern technologies such as the development of social websites and media, and impact of new tools and means of communication in the evolution of diasporic cultures; 3) the formation of virtual communities united by an ethnic or ethno-religious belonging and their contribution to diasporic identities.

Methodological approaches:

The very topics of the present conference calls for the interdisciplinary approach for implementation of the project's objectives. The conference organizing team plans to invite experts who apply methods drawn from culture studies, literature studies, ethnology, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and special linguistic methods. For some more certain issues the organizing team plans to invite experts in historical research, dialectology, contact studies approaches. The conference's results may be further applied to work with other language groups and culture phenomenon being results of excessive intercultural contacts.

Please send your abstracts (maximum 300 words, including references) to the conference committee, by email (ilmen2005@yahoo.com) by March 1, 2017.

NB: It's advisable to authors to state what research method(s) they apply in their work.

Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or non-acceptance by March 20.

The conference will be held from 4 to 9 September 2017 at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy.

The conference is hold within framework of the project supported by the grant from the RSCF.

Contact Email: 

ilmen2005@yahoo.com

CFP: The  International Conference on Gender and Sexuality Studies , 2017

Due date: May 7th 2017

Venue:

Skirvin Hilton Hotel

1 Park Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73102

September 28 – 30, 2017

IGSS Call for Papers

The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is hosted by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma. “The Center” hopes to promote intellectual engagement with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality issues by hosting annual conferences.

The Center invites proposals for presentations at the Second International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. This international interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals for presentations in a variety of formats that address issues of gender and sexuality in the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, and STEM fields. We invite students, faculty, staff, scholars, and activists to propose papers, panels, roundtable discussions, and poster presentations. We also welcome proposals to present or perform creative work including creative writing, drama, music, and visual art.

Instructions for submission

Paper, workshop, panel and round table discussion submission guidelines:

1. Initial submissions should include a 350-word abstract.

2. You may submit your abstract in Word or PDF format.

3. If The Center has questions on the proposal, we will reach out to you via email.

4. Include your name, affiliation, phone number, and email address in your document.

Creative art submission guidelines:

1. Creative art includes art displays, writing, drama, music and visual arts.

2. If your work falls into one of the above categories, you are required to submit a 350- word description of your creative artwork.

3. If The Center has questions on the proposal, we will reach out to you via email.

4. You may submit your abstract in Word or PDF format.

5. Include your name, affiliation, phone number, and email address in your document.

General instructions

1. Abstracts should be submitted to thecenteratuco@gmail.com.

2. The deadline to submit your paper for consideration is May 7, 2017, Sunday, before 11:59PM.

3. The Center’s decision is final.

For more questions, please reach out to Dr. Lindsey Churchill, Director of the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center, at lchurchill@uco.edu.

International Translating Voices Translating Regions

Minority languages, risks, disasters and regional crises’

Dates: 13-15 December 2017

Venue: Europe House, London

Times: 9:30-16:30

The Centre for Translation Studies announces the V International Conference Translating Voices, Translating Regions, convened by Dr Christophe Declercq and Dr Federico M. Federici.

• Deadline to submit abstracts for individual papers: 28 February 2017

The fifth International conference aims to address questions focused on the role of professional and non-professional translators and interpreters as mediators during crises. Communication in disasters, emergencies, and in the different phases of developing crises is crucial and is normally an intercultural interaction. Yet the area of remains under-explored with very few exceptions. The need for more efficient intercultural communication among international humanitarian field operators begins to be acknowledged in those reports that focus on the consequences of inefficient communication in responding to international crises. In the ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster and Risk Reduction 2015-2030’ (2015) shows that new attention, though only in nuce, emerges on the crucial role of communicating over all the different phases of a crises. This conference intends to engage with the complexity of multilingual communication in crises, especially but not exclusively in those contexts in which rare or minority languages represent a substantial obstacle to rescue or humanitarian operations. The conference will welcome papers, reflections, reports, and accounts focusing on the people involved and the procedures adopted, on the training needed and the training available, and on the technologies and infrastructures that support or could support in the foreseeable future intercultural interactions and communication during crises.

Key themes of the conference

To submit a panel proposal or an individual paper, please fill this form:

Translation technologies and humanitarian needs

Use of multimedia translation for crises

Open-source translation technologies and regional languages

Audiovisual translation and the representation of emergencies and crises

Minority languages and lack of translation technologies

Constrained subtitles and the issue of minority languages

Refugees interpreting and translation for lesser spoken languages

Tools and resources for interpreting in extreme conditions

Medical crises in multilingual contexts.

Call for papers

The conference convenors Dr Christophe Declercq and Dr Federico M. Federici, University College University, welcome proposals exploring these themes. The conference aims to address these issues from a range of pragmatic and theoretical perspectives and welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers followed by 10 minutes for discussion or for 3-paper panel.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gBh4U-pKgn78WsjQMtJXvKnBg2TqWOFu6asBMv19tC4/viewform 

Deadlines

28 February 2017: Abstracts

30 March 2017: Notification of acceptance

5 April 2017: Provisional programme online

5 April 2017: Early-Bird Registration opens

15 July 2017: Final programme online

1 September 2017: Standard Registration opens

30 September 2017: Registration closes

30 November 2017: Submission of papers (notes and/or PowerPoint) for the interpreters 

For more details:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/centras/translation-news-and-events/v-translating-voices

CETRA Summer School 2017

29th Research Summer School in TRANSLATION STUDIES

University of Leuven, Belgium

28 Aug - 8 Sep 2017

The CETRA Board has appointed Leo Tak-hung CHAN (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) as CETRA Chair Professor for the 29^th Summer School 

Prof. Chan’s bio note can be found here.

For all information about the application procedure (with two rounds and two deadlines!), the scholarships and the venue, please go to this page.

More detailed information about the exact programme will be added later.

In 1989 José Lambert created a special research program in Translation Studies at the University of Leuven in order to promote research training in the study of translational phenomena and to stimulate high-level research into the cultural functions of translation. Since then, this unique program has attracted talented PhD students, postdocs and young scholars who spend two weeks of research under the supervision of a team of prominent scholars, and under the supervision of the Chair Professor, an annually appointed expert in the field of Translation Studies. From 1989 on, the program has hosted participants from Austria to Australia, from Brazil to Burundi, and from China to the Czech Republic. As an illustration of the multi-campus model of CETRA, the 2016 edition of the Summer School will be organized at the Antwerp campus of the KU Leuven, in the city center of Antwerp.

The list of CETRA professors may serve as an illustration of the program’s openness to the different currents in the international world of Translation Studies: Gideon Toury (Tel Aviv, 1989), †Hans Vermeer (Heidelberg, 1990), Susan Bassnett (Warwick, 1991), Albrecht Neubert (Leipzig, 1992), Daniel Gile (Paris, 1993), Mary Snell-Hornby (Vienna, 1994), †André Lefevere (Austin, 1995), Anthony Pym (Tarragona, 1996), Yves Gambier (Turku, 1997), Lawrence Venuti (Philadelphia, 1998), Andrew Chesterman (Helsinki, 1999), Christiane Nord (Magdeburg, 2000), Mona Baker (Manchester, 2001), Maria Tymoczko (Amherst, Massachusetts, 2002), Ian Mason (Edinburgh, 2003), Michael Cronin (Dublin, 2004), †Daniel Simeoni (Toronto, 2005), Harish Trivedi (Delhi, 2006), †Miriam Shlesinger (Tel Aviv, 2007), Kirsten Malmkjaer (London, 2008), †Martha Cheung (Hong Kong, 2009), Sherry Simon (Montreal, 2010), Christina Schaeffner (Aston, 2011), Franz Pöchhacker (Vienna, 2012), Michaela Wolf (Graz, 2013), Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen, 2014), Judy Wakabayashi (Kent, USA, 2015), Jeremy Munday (Leeds, 2016)

Basic activities and components of the Summer Session:

• Public Lectures by the CETRA Professor on key topics. A preliminary reading list will be furnished and all topics are to be further developed in discussions.
• Theoretical-methodological seminars given by the CETRA staff. Basic reading materials will be made available in advance.
• Tutorials: individual discussions of participants’ research with the CETRA Professor and the CETRA staff.
• Students’ papers: presentation of participants’ individual research projects followed by open discussion.
• Publication: each participant is invited to submit an article based on the presentation, to be refereed and published on the CETRA Digital Shelf.

Application procedure

How to apply for the CETRA Research Summer School?

Application in two rounds

Participation in the CETRA Research Summer School is limited to a maximum of 25 students (KU Leuven PhD students not included).

The Board welcomes PhD students and postdocs, but also academics and professionals who are actively interested or involved in research in translation and interpreting studies.

Because some participants need time for visa application and application for funding, there will be two rounds with separate deadlines.

First Round (for early bird guarantee)

application deadline: 25 February 2017

notification of acceptance: 10 March 2017

Second Round

application deadline: 13 April 2017

notification of acceptance: 28 April 2017

Students applying for the Summer School will be required:

- to send a motivation letter and a recent curriculum vitae to Steven Dewallens

- to fill in the application form

Based on this information the CETRA Board will evaluate all applications, both for the first and the second round.

Accepted students will be required to send a copy of their ID/Visa, a photograph and a short bio note to Steven Dewallens.

Fees

The total enrolment fee is 1200 Euros. This sum includes participation in the workshops, seminars and lectures, individual tutorials with the staff members relevant for your topic, nine warm lunches offered at the campus and two shared dinners in an Antwerp restaurant, registration as KU Leuven visiting scholar with access to library and computer facilities and insurance. The fee does not cover travel expenses and housing.

Participants registered as PhD students at KU Leuven get a 20% discount on the total enrolment fee.

The payment of the fee is due upon written notification that the application has been accepted.

Scholarship

CETRA is sponsoring 5 scholarships of 400 euros to registered (non KU Leuven) participants of the CETRA 2017 Research Summer School.

The applicant must fulfil the following requirements to be eligible for the scholarship:

- being accepted by the CETRA Board (see above)

- having paid the advance of 400 Euros

- sending a brief explanation as to why a scholarship is needed to Steven Dewallens (deadline: 11 May 2017)

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Payment policy

An advance of 400 Euros has to be paid by 11 May 2017. No exceptions are allowed. If the advance is not paid by 11 May, candidates on the standby list will be offered the opportunity to replace you. The remaining 800 Euros has to be paid before 20 June 2017.

Payment can be made:

1. by bank transfer to

KBC Bank

Brusselsesteenweg 100

3000 Leuven

SWIFT / BIC code: KREDBEBB

For international payments please make use of the international IBAN code for fast payment: BE09 4320 0000 1157

Beneficiary:

KU Leuven

Krakenstraat 3

3000 Leuven

Please mention the following structured communication: (available later)

Note: Please send a copy of the bank transfer to Steven Dewallens.

2. by credit card

Please follow this link (click in the right corner for the English version; please fill in your name below 'optional information').

Cancellation of participation

Cancellations must be sent via e-mail to Steven Dewallens.

For cancellations made until 28 June an administrative cost of 200 euro will not be refunded.

Cancellations made between 29 June and 20 August will be subject to 25% refund. All refunds will be made after the Summer School.

For cancellations after 20 August no refunds can be made anymore.

Accommodation and travel info

Venue of the Summer School: KU Leuven campus Antwerp, Sint-Andriesstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp. For travel info please click here.

The Antwerp campus of KU Leuven is located in the old town centre of Antwerp, near the “Nationalestraat” and the “Groenplaats” and close to the “Grote Markt”. The main railway station “Antwerpen Centraal” is also only a 20 to 25 minutes’ walk away.

For more information about the city of Antwerp, please visit the following website: www.visitantwerpen.be.

For student accommodation, we collaborate with two institutes both very close to the campus (approx. 500m):

1/ There are two nice studios available at the Thomas More campus, both with two single beds and a kitchen. They can be booked for single or for double use. Price per day: 27 €. Booked on first come, first serve basis. For information and booking: contact ann.vandepeer@thomasmore.be. Please mention ‘CETRA Summer School KU Leuven’.

2/ 20 single rooms are available at the Institute for Tropical Medicine, see the brochure at http://www.itg.be/itg/Uploads/Studentendienst/Studentenlogementen.pdf.

 The rooms available are those in the Karibu building, the prices are listed under ‘others’. Price per week: 190-220 € (+ administration cost). For information and booking: see contact details of Patricia Braat in brochure. Please mention ‘CETRA Summer School KU Leuven’.

Besides student accommodation, there are a lot of nice hotels and B&B’s available in the centre of Anwerp, for example Hilton (http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/belgium/hilton-antwerp-old-town-ANRHITW/about/index.html), Elzenveld (http://www.elzenveld.be/en/hotel) or Theater Hotel (http://www.vhv-hotels.be/hotel/4).

Most hotels and B&B’s can be booked online on websites such as Booking.com or the website of the Antwerp Hotel Association: www.antwerphotelassociation.be.

For those who prefer budget accommodation: there is also a youth hostel very close to the campus (less than 5 minutes’ walk): Pulcinella, Bogaardeplein 1: 

http://www.jeugdherbergen.be/nl/jeugdherbergen/in-de-stad/antwerpen-pulcinella.

https://www.hihostels.com/hostels/antwerp-central-hostel

Accommodation is not organized through CETRA, but by the participants themselves.

Contact

Please feel free to ask whatever additional information about the program to Luc van Doorslaer, Director of CETRA

For administrative questions please contact Steven Dewallens, the CETRA Secretary

http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/cetra/summer_school

CFP: International Winter School for Literary Translation, Jadvapur University, Kolkatta.

January 30 and 31, 2017