CFP  NeMLA 2018: "Globalizing English: Translation and the Production of World Literature"

New York, United States

Call For Papers

Primary Area / Secondary Area: World Literatures (non-European Languages) / Comparative Literature.

Abstract :

Translation makes contemporary global spaces possible. As J.W. Goethe says: “Whatever one may say of the inadequacy of translation, this activity nonetheless remains one of the most essential tasks and one of the worthiest of esteem in the universal market of world trade [emphasis added].” But how does translation create global literary spaces? What is the role of translation in world literature courses? Goethe tells us to admire the translator--do we?

Scholars like Pascale Casanova and Gayatri Spivak have engaged forcefully with translation, arguing for recognition of the “untranslatable” and warning against replicating Anglo worldviews. Partially as a result of this intense conversation, translation has become more important in the typically “parochial” United States. More than ever, texts are translated into English, thereby bringing the world to us while encouraging the extreme proliferation of world literature, both as academic discipline and pedagogical endeavor. And yet, translation has also diminished--consider the fact that many world literature scholars and/or instructors cannot tell you the names or qualifications of the translators involved in creating world literature texts, let alone explain how translation affects readers’ perceptions of what they read and, consequently, their understanding of the world.

Participants are encouraged to review their experience in translating texts and/or teaching translated texts, in discussing translation with students, or to share findings in translation studies, particularly as related to works routinely found in world literature classrooms. Participants may focus on texts from any genre--poetry, prose, and drama, fictional or nonfictional, in order to best represent the variety of texts found in common anthologies like the Norton Anthology of World Literature or the Longman Anthology of World Literature. 

This is a CFP for a roundtable panel on translation and the production of world literature, which will be held at the 2018 NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Translators, world literature professors and instructors, translation scholars, and comparative literature scholars, etc. are invited to participate in this roundtable panel. Please contact genewaite@gmail.com for further information or to submit an abstract proposal by September 15, 2017. Here is the official CFP link on the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16743.

Contact Info: 

Genevieve Waite, Ph.D. Candidate in French Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY

Contact Email:  genewaite@gmail.com

URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16743

Annual Conference- NEPCA World Literature

 October 27-28, 2017

University of Massachusetts

Call For Papers

The World Literature area for the 2017 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association conference is accepting paper proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2017 annual conference will be held from October 27-28, 2017 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

The NEPCA World Literature area welcomes papers that explore both individual works of world literature as well as contemporary issues in the field of World Literature.  Questions under consideration could include how to understand what world literature is, how best to teach works of world literature as well as the exploration of current trends in postcolonial, world and comparative literatures.  Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Intersections of popular culture and World Literature
• Publication, reception and audience of World Literature
• Retellings of works of world literature in popular culture media
• World Literature and the American classroom
• Trends in World Literature
• Translation
• The Future of World Literature
• World Literature and Genre

Please submit paper proposals of 250-400 words to the World Literature area chair Susan Gorman (susan.gorman@mcphs.edu) by June 1, 2017 via the paper proposal form available on the NEPCA website.  Please ensure that your proposal is jargon-free and understandable to a broad audience.  Your submission should also include a current CV.

For more information, and to access a copy of the 2017 paper proposal form, please visit the NEPCA website: https://nepca.blog/2017-conference/

Susan Gorman, Area Chair

World Literature

Contact Info: 

Susan Gorman, Area Chair

World Literature

MCPHS University

179 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Contact Email: 

susan.gorman@mcphs.edu

URL: 

https://networks.h-net.org/nepca.blog/2017-conference/

EURIAS Fellowships For Humanities and Social Sciences 2018-19

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 19 participating Institutes: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Warsaw, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 19 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. In order to match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues. The EURIAS Consortium welcomes applications from scholars at risk.

For the 2018-2019 academic year, EURIAS offers 54 fellowships (26 junior and 28 senior positions). Please check Available fellowship positions.

All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of € 26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.

APPLICATION AND DEADLINE

– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, selection procedure, etc.

– Applications period May 5th → June 7th, 2017 (4 pm GMT)

– The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017 (4 pm GMT). Late applications will not be considered.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

– Scientific assessment by two international reviewers

– Pre-selection by the international EURIAS Scientific Committee

– Final selection by the IAS academic boards

– Publication of results (January 2018)

CALENDAR OF ACTIONS

Launch of the call for applications → May 5th, 2017

Application deadline → June 7th, 2017, 4 pm GMT -Greenwich Mean Time-  (6 pm Paris/Brussels Time)

Results of the preselection by EURIAS Scientific Committee → Mid-November, 2017

Publication of IAS final selections → Mid-January, 2018

Arrival of fellows → September/October 2018

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Please check on the following pages :

- http://www.eurias-fp.eu/eligibility-requirements

- http://www.eurias-fp.eu/types-fellowships

EURIAS Programme Officers:

Ms Raquel Sanz Barrio

at the RFIEA Foundation

54 bd Raspail

75006 Paris - FRANCE

For any question related to the application procedure or eligibility: programme.officer@eurias-fp.eu

To contact the participating IAS, please refer to this list.

EURIAS is coordinated by the RFIEA Foundation (Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study).

For More Details, Please Do Visit our Website:http://www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu/application-materials

 International Conference on Current Issues of Literature, Translation and Teaching and Learning of Languages

Pazoheshgaran Andishmand Institute (Ahwaz, Iran)

1-2 February, 2018

Call For Papers

The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Literature, Translation and Teaching and Learning of Languages is organized by Pazoheshgaran Andishmand Institute (Ahwaz, Iran) in association with different universities such as Shahid Chemran University of Ahvaz.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of literature, translation and teaching and learning of different languages and dialects.

Academics and university lecturers are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of literature, translation and teaching and learning of different languages and dialects in English, Arabic or Persian. Such an approach suggests that a study is no longer limited within a certain field; knowledge from different fields cultivates diversity in a study. Recognizing this trend, the conference organizing committee aims to provide a platform for researchers and scholars from various fields to exchange ideas.

 The selective papers of the conference will be published in journals such as Journal of English Language Teaching and will be indexed in CIVILICA (All the services regarding publication and index of the articles are free of charge).

  Conference Themes

The conference will bring together multi-disciplinary expertise from all relevant fields. We invite submissions for an abstract of a research-based paper in any of the relevant fields, including but not limited to:

Literature (Any literary issue related to different languages and dialects)
 Translation (Any translation and interpreting issue related to different languages and dialects)
 Conceptual and operational framework for entrepreneurship in different languages
Teaching languages to non-native speakers

Education (Issues such as teaching, program evaluation, curriculum development of different languages)

Languages and dialects (Any linguistic issue related to different languages and dialects, either theoretical or applied linguistics)

Morphology and syntax
Phonetics and phonology
Corpus linguistics
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Contact linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Contrastive linguistics
Comparative linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Interlinguistics
Computational linguistics
Linguistic statistics
Orthography
Pragmatics
Rhetoric
Stylistics
Semantics
Linguistic typology
Bilingualism
Social Networks
Contemporary literature
Comparative literature






Last date of call for papers :(for submission of abstracts & registration forms)                 31^th October 2017

Contact Details

The Organizer Secretariat of Conference, Pazhoheshgaran Andishmand Institute, Ahwaz, Iran P.O.Box: 61335-4619 Tel: (+98) 61-3293- 1199 / Tel/Fax (+98) 61-3293-1198 Mobile :( +98) 916-508-8772 Email: info@pahi.ir

For More Information Visit our Website http://ltlt.ir/index.php/en/

Annual Conference on Edwardian Culture 

The Spirit of Speed: Edwardian Culture on the Move

University of Lancaster, UK

8^th-9^th September, 2017.

"Before us stretched the deserted road; we could trace it for miles and miles, a long line of grey in a vastness of green space that faded into blue, rising and falling with the rise and fall of the hills. Then the spirit of speed took possession of us, the fascination and the frenzy of speed for speed’s sake […] We had escaped from the fetters that bind man to earth; we were intoxicated with a new-born sense of splendid freedom; without exertion or effort we lightly skimmed the ground […] We were rushing into infinity." (James Hissey, An English Holiday with Car and Camera, 1909)

The fourth annual conference of the Edwardian Culture Network will be held at the University of Lancaster this coming September, in association with the Edwardian Postcard Project. Taking our lead from James Hissey’s 1909 evocation of travelling in a motor car, or H.G. Wells’s equally-breathless sea-bound finale to Tono-Bungay – we will be exploring the ‘spirit of speed’, as represented, reflected, challenged or wilfully ignored by British culture c.1895-1914. 

We invite 300-word proposals for papers on any aspect of this theme. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Culture on the move: the significance of postcards, advertisements, newspapers, travelling exhibitions, etc.
• Reactions to new technologies: motor cars, steam turbines, radio, film, etc.
• Speed and freedom: travel, independence and access.
• Rushing into infinity: Speed and the representation of time in art.
• Placing the brakes on speed: antidotes to the quickening pace of life: stillness, slowness and spirituality.
• Speed and exchange: The impact of Atlantic crossings on Anglo-American culture.

We will accept proposals for 15 minute presentations and panels; we are also happy to consider experimental approaches and poster ideas. Please e-mail proposals (not exceeding 500 words) to edwardianculture@hotmail.co.uk. 

The closing date for applications is June 4^th, 2017. Participants from inside and outside academia are equally welcome!

Contact Info: 

Samuel Shaw at edwardianculture@hotmail.co.uk

Contact Email: edwardianculture@hotmail.co.uk

URL: https://edwardianculture.com/2017/01/30/cfp-the-spirit-of-speed-culture-on-the-move-in-edwardian-britain/

The IHS PhD Scholarship: $1,500 for PhD Students in the Humanities/Social Science- Fellowship up to $15,000 the following year.

Eligibility

The IHS PhD Scholarship is a $1,500 award to support PhD students interested in answering important societal questions in order to increase freedom and well-being in our world.

In addition to receiving funding, scholarship winners benefit from additional opportunities and financial awards through IHS, as well as invitations to career development events and access to IHS’s vast academic network. Winners will be eligible for a fellowship up to $15,000 the following year.

Eligibility and Application Details

If you are enrolled in a PhD program in the humanities and social sciences and are interested in developing the ideas that lead to more peaceful and prosperous societies, we encourage you to apply. We’re accepting applicants for the 2017-2018 academic year until February 28,2018.

Click here for more info to Apply

Contact Info: 

Nigel Ashford

Institute for Humane Studies

at George Mason University

703-993-4880

opportunity@theihs.org

Contact Email: opportunity@theihs.org

URL:http://www.theihs.org/funding/ihs-phd-scholarship/?utm_source=Hnet&utm_medium=posting&utm_content=phd%20scholarship%2017..

Disciplining the Modern Family: Gender, State, and Society

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities

The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies

January 2-4, 2018

 CALL FOR PAPERS:

With the rise of the modern nation-state, the interest in the family as an institution and in its functions in modern life expanded as well. Rulers, bureaucrats, revolutionaries, writers, and readers all looked to mobilize families and individual family members to their goals.  Approaches to the family varied greatly: some perceived it as the torchbearer of traditional values and practices that must be protected from new perceptions of self and society; others saw it as a site for the promotion of social and cultural reforms. The family was presented as the solution to all kinds of problems, from issues of health and sexuality to questions of controlling populations, winning wars and maintaining and enhancing economic production. Gender was an essential part of every approach to the family, as each of these approaches entailed a different understanding of masculinity and femininity and their role in society. Such approaches did not stop in the borders of the nation-states, particularly with the rise of modern imperialism, colonialism and migration. Around the world, men, women and children continued to live, produce and reproduce in families, but the form, meaning and uses of their families changed dramatically from generation to generation. Family forms and practices became the markers of culture and served to distinguish between identity groups. Thus the family became a site for conflicts, on the individual, communal, national and international levels.

The workshop will convene a small group of younger as well as established scholars who deal with these issues based on their individual research in varied historical arenas, from Europe and the Americas to the Middle-East, Africa, South and East Asia. Participants will pre-circulate their papers, and all workshop participants will read and comment on them. A specific discussant will also comment on each paper.

We invite proposals for original and integrative papers from all geographic areas, on themes such as:

• How states attempted to shape and reshape families since the 18^th century?
• The construction and disruption of gender roles within the family
• The family in a transnational and global framework – family and empire, families beyond borders
• Motherhood, fatherhood and their changing meanings
• The roles of children in the family
• The nation/state as a modern family
• How masculine domination is reinforced and challenged via the family?
• The relationship between family, gender, and class
• Alternative families and alternatives to the family
• Changing notions and practices of love and sexuality within the family
• Family and work, the family as an economic unit
• Family and religion
• Changing legislations of families
• Families and war

Proposals should include:

(1) Name and affiliation

(2) Title and a short abstract (150-200 words)

(3) Brief CV (1-3 pages)

Proposals, as well as further inquiries, should be sent by email to the workshop secretariat: (familyworkshop2018@gmail.com)

The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 June 2017.

Accepted proposals will be notified by 15 July 2017.

Full papers (up to 7,000 words) are due by 1 November 2017.

The organizers will cover airfare cost (economy class) and four-night accommodation in Tel Aviv. The workshop will be conducted in English. It is open to the public and participation is free of charge.

We would be grateful if you could distribute this call for papers among your colleagues.

Prof. Billie Melman (bmelman@post.tau.ac.il), Prof. Iris Rachamimov (irisrchmmv@gmail.com), Dr. Sivan Balslev (sivanb@vanleer.org.il), Mr. Matan Boord (matanboord1@gmail.com)

Workshop’s secretariat: familyworkshop2018@gmail.com

Contact Email: 

familyworkshop2018@gmail.com

URL: 

https://www.academia.edu/32936309/Call_for_Papers_Disciplining_the_Modern_Family_Gender_State_and_Society