[Commlist] CFP: Performative and Experiential Translation: Meaning-Making through Language, Art and Media

*Call for Papers*
*Performative and Experiential Translation: Meaning-Making through 
Language, Art and Media*
/Conference at King’s College London, Strand Campus, London, UK/
*13-15 July 2022*
*DEADLINE for submission of abstracts: 21**^st ** April 2022*
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/Organised by the// Experiential Translation Network/ 
<http://www.experientialtranslation.net/>, /Funded by the Arts & 
Humanities Research Council/
The conjuncture of globalisation, increased migration and digitisation 
has created new spaces for communication, social and cultural exchanges 
and encounters. Both in online and offline environments across the 
globe, we experience an increase in plurilingualism and 
multiculturalism. Further, digital technologies have made communication 
increasingly multimodal as we switch or swipe between images, text, 
memes, emoticons, sound clips,…
In today’s complex societal ecologies where multiple languages and 
modalities are simultaneously available for communication, it is vital 
to develop enhanced literacies capable of fostering individual and 
community agency and engagement for this highly interconnected but 
fragmented world. The role of translation, between languages 
(interlingual) and between media (intersemiotic), is central to such an 
undertaking.
In March 2021, we set up the AHRC-funded Experiential Translation 
Network, which comprises a group of international scholars, artists and 
translators who investigate interlingual and intersemiotic translation 
as a method of creation and communication, as a method for learning and 
teaching, collaboration and participation within multilingual, 
multicultural and multimodal settings.
At the forthcoming conference we will share some of the work we have 
conducted within the network and invite anyone with an interest in 
translation, whether literary, technical, artistic, professional or 
amateur, to join us in the ongoing enquiry into what translation can, or 
needs to, be and do.
We invite interventions (papers, lightning talks, performances, 
workshops, moving-image works) that investigate translation in an 
expanded sense which includes understanding the many modes and 
modalities that contribute to meaning-making in cross-cultural 
communication (online & offline), language learning and translation, and 
embracing the role of individual imagination and artistic creation in 
education and arts institutions (e.g. libraries, galleries, museums).
Possible topics include:

  * the capacity of translation as a concept and metaphor to represent
    the features (and also the tensions and conflicts) of our current
    globalized and increasingly ethno-diverse societies.
  * the creation and reception of any type of representation (i.e.
    translation) in another context or cultural milieu, including
    conflictual visions of reality, cross-cultural differences and power
    asymmetries.
  * intersemiotic translation as a method for fostering cross-cultural
    communication and creating inclusive social frameworks.
  * creative translation as a research method
  * The translation of multimodal disembodied texts: texts combining
    images, sounds and other languages.
  * The translation of orality
  * Translation and the body
  * The impact of new technologies: translation and social media,
    translating the digital new texts in digital spaces
  * Recontextualization as moving ‘meaning-material’: pedagogical
    approaches and processes involved in recontextualization
  * translation as the subject of artwork (literature, film, sculpture,
    painting, performance art, dance, and the like)
  * translation as a form of writing (ekphrasis, multilingual
    literature, visual poetry, text in paintings, etc.)
  * collaborative translation (interdisciplinarity, translator’s
    visibility in collaborative translation, technology in collaborative
    translation, etc.)
  * Art that examines and utilises translation as a process to make work
  * Art as translation

The main objective of the conference is to generate discussion, raise 
new questions and move research into experiential translation forwards. 
Hence, we would like to encourage alternative methods of presenting 
research, work in progress or artistic projects.
We invite both theory and practice-based interventions, in one of the 
following formats:

  * a 15-minute research paper
  * a 10-15 minute project presentation (combination of art project,
    design thinking and mapping, visual renditions and translations,
    art-language etc. plus research)
  * a 5-minute lightning talk
  * a performance of 5-15 minutes (But please do let us know if you’d
    like to present something longer)
  * an interactive workshop of 45-60 minutes
  * Moving image work

*Deadline for submission of abstracts:* 21^st  April 2022,
Please submit the following to (info /at/ experientialtranslation.net) 
<mailto:(info /at/ experientialtranslation.net)>:

·Presentations, project presentations and lightning talks: an abstract 
of 200 words (indicating which format and length you choose) plus a bio 
of 100 words.

·Performances and interactive workshops: an abstract of 250-300 words 
plus a bio of 100 words. Please indicate the format and length of your 
proposed intervention.

·Moving-image work: a short description of 200 words plus a bio of 100 
words. Please indicate the format and length of your work as well as 
whether it has sound.
Please note that we will only be able to show work on flat-screen monitors.

*Please note*: The conference is free to attend, but you will need to 
register as places are limited. We hope very much that we will be able 
to hold this conference entirely offline. It will take place on the 
Strand campus of King’s College London.
*Conference Committee:*
Dr Ricarda Vidal, King’s College London, UK
Dr Madeleine Campbell, Edinburgh University, UK
Dr Heather Connelly, University of Lincoln, UK
Zeina Dghaim, PhD Candidate, Western University, London, Canada
Dr Joanna Kosmalska, University of Lodz, Poland
Prof África Vidal Claramonte, University of Salamanca, Spain
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