Conference
»The Transnational Study of Culture: Lost or found in Translation?
Cultural Studies - Sciences Humaines - Kulturwissenschaft(en)«
Time:
October 28th - October 30th, 2009
Place:
Rauischholzhausen Castle, Conference Centre
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany (ca. 75 mins. from Frankfurt)
Organizers:
International Graduate Centre for the Study of
Culture (GCSC), Giessen University, Germany
Doris Bachmann-Medick, Kirsten Pohl, Martin Zierold
Presently we find a diversity of approaches in
(Western) academe going by the name of "Cultural
Studies", "Sciences Humaines" or
"Kulturwissenschaft(en)". For a long time
already, all of these approaches have faced the
challenge of inter- and transdisciplinarity.
Until today, however, they have too seldom (and
too vaguely) examined ways to expand their own
transnational and transcultural horizon. On
further exploring their transnational scope, the
category of translation opens up highly
promising perspectives since cooperation between
different research cultures increasingly takes
place under the influence of the study of
culture which is becoming more international.
Translation can thus become a useful model to
negotiate between - and link together -
different traditions within the study of culture
in joint transnational endeavors.
The conference, "The Transnational Study of
Culture: Lost or found in Translation?
Kulturwissenschaft(en) - Cultural Studies -
Sciences Humaines", is a first attempt to bring
together leading representatives in the study of
culture from different research cultures. We do
so not only in order to discuss the conditions,
opportunities and overall perspectives for
collaboration but also to explore the boundaries
of possible transnational transfers between the
various forms of the study of culture. The main
objective of this conference is to question the
characteristics and guiding ideas of different
research cultures with respect to their translatability.
Further information and registration at:
http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/transnational
Programme
28. October 2009
18:30 Uhr Opening Lecture | Ansgar Nünning und Wolfgang Hallet
Lost or Found in Translation? - The Risks and Promises of Conceptual Transfer
29. October 2009
9:30 Uhr Keynote | Doris Bachmann-Medick
The Transnational Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective
Panel Mobility of Concepts and Categories
10:30 Uhr Matthias Middell
How Concepts Travel: The Study of transferts
culturels and Its Echoes in Various Disciplines and Different Countries |
11:30 Uhr Christina Lutter
What Do We Translate When We Translate? Context,
Process, and Practice as Categories of Cultural Analysis
Panel Transnational Cultural Studies?
14:00 Uhr John Storey
British Cultural Studies and Its Transnational Origins |
14:45 Uhr Rainer Winter
Unübersetzbarkeiten? Das Nebeneinander von
Cultural Studies und Kulturwissenschaften |
15:30 Uhr Christa Knellwolf-King
Telling the Stories of the Contact Zone:
Experimental Transitions between History,
Fiction and Criticism in Australian Cultural Studies
Panel Politics of Research Cultures/Politics of Translation
17:00 Uhr Boris Buden
Translation and the East: A Challenge for Cultural Theory
17:45 Uhr Jon Solomon
Translation: De-Linking Experience and Knowledge
30. October 2009
Panel Localizations, Frictions, Appropriations | Moderation Kai Sicks
9:00 Uhr Thomas Weber
Medien und Kommunikation: Nationale Zuordnungen
als transnationale Übersetzungsprobleme (im deutsch-französischen Diskurs)
09:45 Uhr Birgit Mersmann
Cultural Conditions of Visual Transmission: Manga Images on Transit
10:30 Uhr Johannes Angermüller
Local Constructions of Global Authors: On Reading (the Many) Foucault(s) |
11:30 Uhr Abschlussdiskussion | Concluding Discussion
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Dr. Martin Zierold | Academic Manager
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Gießener Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK)
Justus Liebig University Gießen
Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
35394 Gießen
Germany
Tel.: +49.641.993 00 40
Tel.: +49.641.993 00 41 (GCSC Office)
(Martin.Zierold /at/ gcsc.uni-giessen.de)
http://www.uni-giessen.de/gcsc
http://www.uni-giessen.de/graduiertenzentrum
