[CFP] Transfiction 4 Images as Translational Fictions

学术会议|Transfiction 4 Images as Translational Fictions

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Transfiction 4

Images as Translational Fictions

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

ORGANIZERS

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Guangdong Collaborative Innovation Center for Language Research & Service/ Center for Asia-Pacific Translation and Intercultural Communication, GDUFS

 

Date: 17-19 Nov, 2017

Venue: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (North Campus)

Guangzhou, China

Language: English.

 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Maria Tymocko, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Luc van Doorslaer, University of Leuven, Belgium

Wang Ning, Tsinghua University, China

AIMS & SCOPE
This conference is a follow-up to the first three Transfiction conferences held in Vienna (2011), Tel Aviv (2013), and Montreal (2015). Images as translational fictions constructed in and through literary translation will be the main concern of this conference, which means that whether or not translated images can represent reality is not of concern. Originating in Literary Studies, especially in Comparative Literature Studies, imagology investigates cultural stereotypes as presented in literature and focuses initially on literary discourse. Scholars believe that literary canonicity has long-lasting influences on ethnotypical perceptions (Leerssen 2007). The mental images and national identities codified by literary texts, particularly fictional texts, have attracted intense academic interests since imagology was introduced to the study of literature. Although imagological research has been accused of being partial and essentialist and was almost abandoned in the late twentieth century within the field of Comparative Literature Studies, interests in image construction and national stereotyping have been revived in neighboring disciplines like Media Studies, Political Studies, and Cross-cultural Studies in recent years in the context of globalization and as “soft power” has been increasingly considered an influential factor in international relations. Because of its descriptive and transdisciplinary nature, the theoretical and methodological apparatus of imagology has been adopted to explain the mechanism of image building and the power of image in branding and marketing. In the meantime, some translation studies scholars, such as Eva Hung (2005), Helen T. Frank (2007), Reingard M. Nischik (2007), and Luc van Doorslaer (2009, 2010, 2016), have also observed the potential of imagology to enrich translation studies and have started to investigate the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of image in and through translation. This conference aims to continue these discussions by inviting talks from within and outside of Translation Studies, hoping that the social functions of translational activities, constructive or deconstructive, will be taken into account and foregrounded. Images including verbal, graphical, optical, perceptual, and mental images (Mitchell 1986) in literary texts in various media (fiction, travelogue, film, etc.) are to be taken as imaginary symbols and the translated images are taken as translational fictions. Hence the themes of this conference will include (but are not limited to):

Verbal images in fictional translation

Graphic and optical images in fictional translation

Multimodality in the translation of images 

Stereotyping and fictional translation

Construction / deconstruction / reconstruction of auto or hetero images in fictional translation

Influential factors in image construction in fictional translation

 

SCHEDULE

15 July 2017 Deadline for submitting abstracts (approximately 300 words)

25 July 2017  Notification of acceptance


PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit abstracts by 15 July 2017 and the abstracts will be selected for presentation at the conference by Academic Committee. The notification of acceptance will be sent out on 25 July 2017. It is recommended that accepted presenters send their full papers by 15 October 2017.
After the conference, a number of selected papers passing peer review will be included in one of the two journals: Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies by Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group and《亚太跨学科翻译研究》 (Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Translation Studies), a bilingual journal published by Tsinghua University Press.

* To submit papers at the online Editorial Manager® system, new users can first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides are available on this website.

 

REGISTRATION FEE

Registration fee is $200 or¥1300, to be paid at the conference.

*The registration fee may be waived if a full original paper is submitted to both crossingborders@vip.163.com and the Editorial Manager® system for Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies at https://www.edmgr.com/rtis by 15 October 2017.

 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Luo Xuanmin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies/ Tsinghua University, China)

Li Ruilin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Zhao Junfeng (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Mo Aiping (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Wang Lan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Li Wenjie (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Hou Song (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Wang Haiying (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

Lin Jiaxin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

He Jing (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)


ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

Luo Xuanmin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies/ Tsinghua University, China), Chair

Maria Tymoczko (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)

Véronique Béghain (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

Nitsa Ben-Ari (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Leo Tak-hung Chan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Gillian Lane-Mercier (McGill University, Canada)

Graham Earnshaw (Earnshaw Books Ltd, UK)

Brian Baer (Kent State University, US)

Klaus Kaindl (University of Vienna, Austria)

Luc van Doorslaer (University of Leuven, Belgium)

Jonathan Lock Hart (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Judith Woodsworth (Concordia University, Canada)

Wang Ning (Tsinghua University, China)

 

 

INFORMATION AND FURTHER DETAILS:

Website: to be announced

For all inquiries about the conference please write to: crossingborders@vip.163.com.

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