CFP: Intersections between postcolonialism and translation: Past and Present Special panel dedicated to translation as part of Italian Postcolonialisms: Past and Present

A.P.I. International Conference XIV

Intersections between postcolonialism and translation: Past and Present

Special panel dedicated to translation as part of

Italian Postcolonialisms: Past and Present

13 August 2017 – Johannesburg

A.P.I. (the Association of Italianists in South Africa) in collaboration with the School of Literature Language and Media of the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) invites scholars to participate in a special panel on translation as part of its conference on the subject of Italian Postcolonialisms in August 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The past 25 odd years have seen the formation of a productive partnership between postcolonial studies and translation studies with paradigms from both disciplines contributing to innovative inter-disciplinary research in both fields. 

The aim of this panel is to foreground recent research in this field as well as to interrogate the potential contribution of this inter-disciplinary partnership in the current context of cultural conflict, mass migration and rising nationalism.

Contributions to this special panel should present novel research at the intersection of postcolonial and translation studies. Contributions from a wide range of perspectives and approaches and dealing with diverse national contexts are welcome. In line with the theme of the larger conference contributions concerning themes within Italian studies are particularly welcome. 

Possible themes include:

- translation and adaptation in, and as, colonial discursive practices

- the representation of the colonial subject in translation

- translation and the formation of literary canons

- the ethics and politics of the  translation of postcolonial texts

- translation and verbal violence

- hybridity, cosmopolitanism and globalisation as translation or adaptation

- transnationalism vs. localisation

Contributions may be either in Italian or English. An abstract of 300 words maximum should be sent by 30 March 2017 to api@api.org.zaalong with the name, surname, affiliation, title of the paper and short biography of the presenter.

The registration fee for presenters from outside South Africa is $100 (R1000 for SA citizens) if paid before 30 April 2017 or $125 (R1300 for SA citizens) for registrations after that date.

For further information please visit the website www.api.org.za or write to anita.virga@wits.ac.za.