[ecrea] CfP VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

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Global Translations

Lisbon, June 26 – July 1, 2017

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*Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2017*

Translation is a concept, and a practice, at the heart of contemporary 
experience.  The legacies of the past, along with modern-day technology 
and worldviews, have allowed for, indeed have invited, the coming 
together of multiple identities, through various languages and a 
plurality of cultures. Nowadays, translation inhabits the world in new 
and irrevocably radical ways, and any definition of globalization – 
hegemonic, utopian or imaginary – must involve translation.

Etymologically meaning ‘the activity of /carrying across/’ (Tymockzo, 
1999: 20), translation may be the actual epitome of the global world, 
particularly if one accepts the broadest definition of ‘globalization’, 
i.e., that ‘“globalization” refers to the processes by which more people 
across large distances become connected in more and different ways’ 
(Lechner and Boli, 2012: 1) – a ‘global village’ needs translation, and 
translation is, of course, never innocent, as linguistic translation can 
help imposing hegemony or promoting resistance. Thus, translation, or 
the rejection of it, has been used as a political tool in every meeting 
of others, be it in the colonial past or in the post-colonial or 
neo-colonial present.

Translation has always meant, to a greater or smaller extent, 
displacement, and is never a one-way process and always involves beings 
as well as goods-in-transit. This translatedness of people and things, 
either voluntary or forced, has come to change the world, in practical 
as well as conceptual terms. The 21^st  century may well prove to be the 
age of migration, with millions – of people, goods, ideas, dollars – 
getting translated every day. These are Appadurai’s ‘objects in motion’ 
(2001) in ‘a world in flows’ (1996). Reinforced by long-distance 
technology (media, transports, etc.) and overreaching hegemonies, 
translation becomes a metaphor for modern-day experience, and a 
practical and a conceptual tool to better negotiate the world around.

To understand how cultural phenomena are affected and shaped by 
translation is, therefore, a task for culture studies, as the recent 
‘translation turn’ may attest (Bassnett, 1990; Bachmann-Medick, 2009). 
This turn in culture studies testifies to the crucial impact of 
‘difference’ – be it in the sense of Paul Gilroy’s convivial 
cosmopolitan worldview (2004) or the rather more pessimistic take of 
Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘liquidity’ (1998, 2011) or of Appiah’s interrogative 
musings (2006) – has on the imaginings of culture, on cultural 
performativity, on the ability to negotiate meanings, values, beliefs 
and practices and potentially raising what be called ‘cosmopolitan 
empathy’ (Beck, 2006). ‘Cosmopolitanization’ as a process which 
‘comprises the development of multiple loyalties as well as the increase 
in the diverse transnational forms of life’ (Beck, 2006: 9) must be 
inhabited by translation in a radically intimate way – a translation 
that is both an act of love and disruption, and that begins at home with 
oneself. As Emily Apter put it, ‘[c]ast as an act of love, and an act of 
disruption, translation becomes a means of repositioning the subject in 
the world and in history; a means of rendering self-knowledge foreign to 
itself; a way of denaturalizing citizens, taking them out of the comfort 
zone of national space, daily ritual, and pre-given domestic 
arrangements’ (2006: 6). Seen as such, every form of translation begins 
with self-translation.

The Summer School invites proposals by doctoral students and post-docs 
that address, though may not be not be strictly limited to, the topics 
below:

·The globalization of art and art markets

·The monolingualization of economics and economic practices

·Migration as translation

·Cultural mediation and negotiation

·Fear and the absence of translation

·The invention of the ‘other’ in and through translation

·Translating ideas, methods, policies across the world

·(Un)Translatability and the rise of demotic media and politics

·(Translated) Identities in the global world

·Nationalism and the global village

·Self-translation and critical thinking in the global world

·Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitanization, and globalization**

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Confirmed Keynote Speakers

§Michael Cronin (Dublin City University)

§Sandra Bermann (Princeton University)

§Alexandra Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

§Uwe Wirth (Justus-Liebig University)

§Rui Carvalho Homem (Universidade do Porto)

§Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University)

§Aamir Mufti (University of California, Los Angeles)

§Hanif Kureishi (British writer and filmmaker)

Master Classes

§Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick)

§Knut Ove Eliassen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

§Adriana Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in 
Lisbon and will gather outstanding doctoral students and post-doctoral 
researchers from around the world. In the morning there will be lectures 
and master classes by invited keynote speakers. In the afternoon there 
will be paper presentations by doctoral students.

Paper proposals

Proposals should be sent (tolxconsortium /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(lxconsortium /at/ gmail.com)> no later than*January 30, 2017***and 
include paper title, abstract in English (200 words), name, e-mail 
address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 words) 
mentioning ongoing research.

Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by Feb. 
19, 2017.

Rules for presentation

The organizing committee shall place presenters in small groups 
according to the research focus of their papers. They are advised to 
stay in these groups for the duration of the Summer School, so a 
structured exchange of ideas may be developed to its full potential.

Full papers submission

Presenters are required to send in full papers by May 30, 2017.

The papers will then be circulated amongst the members of each research 
group and in the slot allotted to each participant (30’), only 10’ may 
be used for a brief summary of the research piece. The Summer School is 
a place of networked exchange of ideas and organizers wish to have as 
much time as possible for a structured discussion between participants. 
Ideally, in each slot, 10’ will be used for presentation, and 20’ for 
discussion.

Registration fees

Participants with paper – 265€ for the entire week (includes lectures, 
master classes, doctoral sessions, lunches and closing dinner)

Participants without paper – €50 per session/day | 165€ for the entire 
week (lectures and master classes only)

Fee exemptions

For The Lisbon Consortium students, the students from Universities 
affiliated with the European Summer School in Cultural Studies 
<http://esscs.hum.ku.dk/esscs_network/> and members of the Excellence 
Network in Cultural Studies there is no registration fee.

Organizing Committee

  * Isabel Capeloa Gil
  * Peter Hanenberg
  * Alexandra Lopes
  * Paulo de Campos Pinto
  * Diana Gonçalves
  * Clara Caldeira

The Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture is an annual meeting 
organized by the Lisbon Consortium, a collaborative research network 
between the Master and PhD programs in Culture Studies at Universidade 
Católica Portuguesa and the main cultural institutions in Lisbon.

The MA in Culture Studies is ranked no. 3 in the world by the 
Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking in Arts Management.

For further information, please contact us through 
(lxconsortium /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(lxconsortium /at/ gmail.com)> or 
(lxconsortium /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt) <mailto:(lxconsortium /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt)>. 
Find us online at www.lisbonconsortium.com 
<http://www.lisbonconsortium.com/>.




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