The University of Otago’s Centre for the Book has announced a Call for Papers for its seventh annual research symposium, which will be held on 1-2 November on the theme\u00a0“Translation and Transculturation in, through, and by Print”. The\u00a0keynote speaker is CRoCC member Associate Professor Lachy Paterson, an expert on M\u0101ori newspapers and transculturation.<\/p>\n
Call for Papers:\u00a0<\/strong>Translation and Transculturation in, through, and by Print<\/strong><\/p>\n 1-2 November 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n \u2022 The impact of print in NZ in languages other than English<\/p>\n \u2022 The impact of print in scripts other than the Roman alphabet<\/p>\n \u2022 Collectors and collecting across cultures<\/p>\n \u2022 How books travel from one language to another<\/p>\n \u2022 Whether transculturation is separable from translation, i.e. can ideas travel irrespective of language?<\/p>\n \u2022 The extent to which print communicates across cultures more or less effectively than other media<\/p>\n \u2022 The effects of national language policies on the power of translation<\/p>\n \u2022 Any aspect of technologies for cross-cultural printing and\/or translating<\/p>\n \u2022 The extent to which print records or distorts cross-cultural encounters<\/p>\n \u2022 Motivations for translation (evangelisation, education, propaganda, support)<\/p>\n \u2022 Whether translation inhibits or facilitates transculturation<\/p>\n All of these topics are of potential interest for the Centre for the Book symposium. Please email a 250-300 word abstract to books@otago.ac.nz. Abstracts must be received by 1 September 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Donald Kerr (donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz) or Dr. Shef Rogers (shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Otago’s Centre for the Book has announced a Call for Papers for its seventh annual research symposium, which will be held on 1-2 November on the theme\u00a0“Translation and Transculturation in, through, and by Print”. The\u00a0keynote speaker is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17472,17444],"tags":[53437,39625,45150,53439,35273],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-news","category-symposium","tag-centre-for-the-book","tag-lachy-paterson","tag-symposium","tag-transculturation","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}