ICT
International Conference on Translation 2019
Important Dates
About ICT
The Department of English and Literature at Kuwait University will organize an annual international conference on Translation Studies and its relevant various issues and notions. Each year, the conference will cover a main topic that falls within the scope of this discipline, and a call for the conference will be sent to translation scholars and researchers from different universities and research centers around the world, including the United States of America, The U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and the Arabian Gulf.
Topics
Translation, CultureCall for Papers
The International Conference on Translation is pleased to invite you to an interdisciplinary conference of translation, culture and comparative literature on March 3-4 2019 at Kuwait University, Kuwait. Participants are encouraged to discuss the interdisciplinary, interculturality, and transnationality with respect to the following disciplinary fields involving translation:
- Comparative literature in translation studies.
- Cultural issues in audiovisual translation
- Cultural sensitivity in translation and translated literature
- Culture-bound expressions.
- Interchange between literary and translation studies.
- Sacred text translation.
- Text selection for global dissemination. The translator as traitor. Selling out to the West?
- Textual reproduction.
- Towards a frontierless world: Translation re-connecting/re-correcting in a virtual world.
- Translation and censorship.
- Translation and Ideology.
- Translation and the diffusion of Information across the globe.
- Translating pop culture.
- Translating the other.
This two-day translation event, the first to be organized by Kuwait University, will consist of a series of lectures on translation and its involvement with culture and comparative literature. We look forward to receiving your papers and welcoming you in Kuwait in 2019. ###brICT@arts.ku.edu.kw, by 20 January 2019. In the body of the e-mail, please also include the following information: 1. Title of abstract 2. Area of translation addressed in the paper/keywords. 3. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of presenter(s) 4. E-mail address of each presenter Accepted speakers will present for 20 minutes, followed by an additional 10 minute question period. Important dates: Dates: 3-4 March 2019 Venue: Seminar #125, College of Arts, Kuwait University Deadline for abstract (200 - 300 words) submissions: 20 January 2019 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2019 Conference website: http://kuweb.ku.edu.kw/ICT/ind...
Language of the conference: English, Arabic, French, etc. Further information such as keynote speakers, registration etc. will be made available soon.
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