[ecrea] Dubbing at Translating Bollywood in Europe: A colloquium.

I would like to draw your attention to the following workshop, which is 
being organised by Dr Monia Acciari. Please direct any comments or 
queries to her at (monia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(monia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>.
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*Dubbing at Translating Bollywood in Europe: A colloquium.
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The ever-growing distribution of Bollywood films worldwide, and in 
Europe, brings into focus the translational practices of dubbing and 
subtitling as crucial elements that affect the reception of this cinema 
abroad, as well as the role they play as cultural filters of one culture 
to another. In the past few years, the use of Indian accents in 
Bollywood cinema have caused dissent on the way specific linguistic 
cultures have been depicted and translated, problematising the use of 
multilingualism and its nuances in India. Thus, is cinema a universal 
language? Against this backdrop, it is important to interrogate if the 
polyglot Bollywood industry produces cultural alignment or disconnection 
with the original intended language and its broad cultural backdrop. 
“Dubbing at Translating Bollywood in Europe: A colloquium” is the first 
AHRC event that seeks to bring together scholars and early career 
researchers working broadly on the study of languages in popular Hindi 
cinema. To what extent do linguistic aspects affect or alter the 
complexities of reception and with it the consumption of a global 
industry in Europe? Furthermore how are cultural identities and meanings 
affected by linguistic shifts, translation and code-switching? How are 
films transformed in the process of translation? How can original 
accents be translated? This first colloquium aims to consider the 
social, linguistic and broadly cultural implications that dubbing and 
subtitling have in the process of cultural transfer of Bollywood cinema 
within the European context. Also, what are the ethical, technical, 
linguistic and rhetoric, issues surrounding such practices within the 
broad European panorama? Such questions call for the re-evaluation of 
the polyglot dimensions in Popular Hindi cinema within its global 
distribution, with particular emphasis on the European context.

Topics included are, but are not limited to:

-Histories of multilingualism in Bollywood films

-Technical and pragmatic issues of subtitling Bollywood

-Dubbing Bollywood

-Linguistic boundaries

-“Regionalism” and Bollywood in Europe

-Audio-Visual texts in translation

-Dialogues and synchronicity

-Synchronicity of cultures and words

The event will take place on 13-14 December 2018 at De Montfort 
University. We expect to have 15-20 min. paper presentations and should 
you wish to submit an abstract (250 words), please send it to Dr Monia 
Acciari at (monia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(monia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>, no 
later than 10^th  November 2018.

PhDs and early career researchers can also apply for a small travel 
bursary up to a maximum of £100, to cover travel costs. There are 3 
bursaries available which will be awarded on a first comes first served 
basis. This is a free event, and is part of the AHRC funded project 
“Multilingual Euro-Bollywood: an ‘imaginative-language’ Workshop”, but 
attendance needs to be 
confirmed.  (https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/blog/exploring-multilingualism/creative-multilingualism-owri-funded-projects)


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