Translating E-Lit? / Traduire la littérature numérique ?
Appel à contributions / Call for papers (scroll down for English version)
Colloque international (16-17 janvier 2020, Université Paris 8, France) / International Conference (Jan. 16 and 17, 2020, Paris 8 University, France)
Comité scientifique / Scientific Committee
Philippe Bootz, Paris 8 University
John Cayley, Brown University
Maria Mencia, Kingston University
Søren Pold, Aarhus University
Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra
Arnaud Regnauld, Paris 8 University
Gabriel Tremblay-Gaudette, UQÀM
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Traduire la littérature numérique ?
La traduction en tant que processus constituera le point focal de ce colloque. En effet, dès lors que l’on aborde la traduction comme un processus plutôt que comme un produit, il convient de considérer les œuvres traduites comme appartenant à un ou plusieurs réseaux, contextes et cultures traductologiques. La traduction est un concept qui permet de proposer un nouvel éclairage sur les échanges et les différences spécifiques à la culture littéraire numérique contemporaine. La culture littéraire numérique mobilise plusieurs types d’opérations : elle présuppose la traduction interlinguistique, mais aussi des échanges qui ressortissent à des problématiques traductologiques au sens large : échanges entre interfaces, médias, codes, institutions, perspectives culturelles, pratiques artistiques et archives. En outre, les textualités numériques partagent un certain nombre de caractéristiques au sein d’environnements omniprésents. De fait, les processus de traduction conduisent à considérer des pratiques créatives qui se situent au-delà du champ strictement littéraire.
L’un des concepts dominants dans le domaine des humanités numériques consiste à appréhender la technologie comme un médium partagé, et de fait universel. En d’autres termes, les plateformes logicielles et les langages de programmation signifieraient la même chose, de la même façon, et ce quelque soit le contexte linguistique et culturel. En principe, cette universalité propre à la technologie implique la promesse d’une communication transparente et universelle permettant une parfaite compréhension mutuelle. Cette approche n’est pas nouvelle : à la mystique de Walter Benjamin qui, en 1923, pensait la traduction à partir d’une langue commune d’avant Babel («La tâche du traducteur»), répondait le fantasme scientifique de Warren Weaver qui envisageait la traduction comme un simple problème cryptographique dans un texte de 1955. Cependant, on est loin de la vérité : le code et la programmation ne font qu’ajouter des strates de complexité à la communication technologique entre cultures et pays. Ce que l’on entend par « code » « langue » ou « langage », « plateforme » ou encore « médium » et autres termes apparentés, diffère selon les contextes culturels et linguistiques. Qui plus est, la manière dont les technologies numériques s’intègrent à et s’illustrent à travers diverses cultures et littératures numériques en Europe et dans les Amériques diffère encore plus nettement.
C’est à travers l’étude et la problématisation du processus de traduction sous ses divers aspects qu’il s’agira de comprendre de manière systématique les multiples variables en jeu dans ce que l’on désigne comme la littérarité numérique. Afin d’éclairer les spécificités du processus traductif, on pourra se concentrer sur quatre axes distincts, mais néanmoins complémentaires : Traduction(inter-langues), Transcodage(traduction entre le langage machine et les langues naturelles), Transmédialité (traduction entre différentes modalités médiales) et Transcréation (la traduction entendue comme une pratique créative partagée) avec une attention particulière aux tropes électroniques.
Date limite de soumission: Nov. 15, 2019
Merci de déposer vos propositions (200-500 mots) au format PDF sur Easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elitrans2
Publication: un e-book avec comité de lecture sera publié à l’issue du colloque.
Contact : Alban Leveau-Vallier : albanlv@gmail.com
Ce colloque s’inscrit dans le prolongement du projet soutenu par la FMSH/Mellon Foundation “Translating Electronic Literature: A Transatlantic Program in Collaborative Digital Humanities” (2017-2018). Il est ouvert à toutes et à tous.
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Translating E-Lit?
The main focus of this conference will be translation as process, rather than as a mere product, which will prompt us to apprehend translated works as belonging to one or several networks, contexts and translational cultures. In short, translation is a concept that throws new light onto the exchanges and differences pertaining to contemporary digital literary culture. Contemporary digital literary culture mobilizes multiple operations: it involves translation across languages, but includes circulations characteristic of other translational issues at large: exchanges between interfaces, media, codes, institutions, cultural perspectives, artistic and archiving practices. In turn, digital forms of textuality share a certain number of aspects within ubiquitous environments, which means that translational processes will lead us to consider creative practices that stand beyond the traditional field of literature.
One of the dominant concepts of digital humanities is that of technology seen as a shared, indeed universal, medium. In other words, software platforms and programming languages would invariably have the same meaning across different cultures. In principle, the universality of technology offers the promise of universal communication and perfect mutual understanding. However, nothing could be farther from the truth: code and programming add layers of complexity to technological communication across cultures and countries. There is nothing new to this approach though: in 1923, Walter Benjamin apprehended translation from the concept of a pure, pre-Babelian language (“The Task of the Translator”) while Warren Weaver envisaged it as a mere problem in cryptography in a 1955 essay. The meaning of such notions as “code,” “language,” “platform,” “medium,” and other similar terms, differs across linguistic and cultural contexts. Furthermore, the way digital technologies have become embedded and translated in specific digital cultures and literatures in Europe and the Americas differs even more. It is by studying and problematizing translation as a process in its various aspects that we will achieve a systematic understanding of the manifold and entangled variables at play in digital literariness.
In order to highlight the specificities of the translational process, we encourage participants to explore four distinct and yet complementary perspectives: Translinguistic translation (between languages), Transcoding (translation between machine readable code and human readable text), Transmedial translation (translation between medial modalities), and Transcreation (translation as a shared creative practice) with a specific focus on electronic tropes.
Deadline for submissions: Nov. 15, 2019
Please log in to Easychair to upload your abstracts in PDF format (200-500 words) : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elitrans2
Publication: a peer-reviewed e-book publication of the proceedings will be forthcoming.
There is no registration fee for this conference.
Contact : Alban Leveau-Vallier : albanlv@gmail.com
This conference will be the concluding event of the following program: “Translating Electronic Literature: A Transatlantic Program in Collaborative Digital Humanities” (2017-2018)” supported by the FMSH/Mellon Foundation. There is no fee for this conference.
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