APPROPRIATION AND INTERPRETATION
University of Aberdeen, Saturday 19 May 2001
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Aberdeen is launching a series of interdisciplinary one-day conferences on the theme of translatio. The series will examine the full range of the ideas contained in the term translatio. These will include habits and techniques of appropriation, transformation and translation, and the transmission of texts, ideas and cultural practices.
A volume of essays based on the research presented at the series is planned. Arrangements to bring the series to a wider audience, with a conference at the Newberry Library, Chicago, are in progress.
The first conference in the Translatio series will be held on Saturday 19 May at the University of Aberdeen. Papers of 20-25 minutes are invited on the theme of 'Translatio: Appropriation and Interpretation'.
Possible topics include:
Gender and authorship;
Translations from and into English;
Political uses and transformations of texts;
Practice and prescription;
Manipulations of genre and literary traditions;
Adaptations (script to print; page to stage; age to age);
Writers, readers and audiences (nation, class, creed);
Repertories and literary markets;
Renaissance literary theory and literary conventions.
Please send proposals of 300 words to:
Dr. Mary Morrissey OR Dr. Cathy Shrank
English Department
Taylor Building
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 2UB
Email submissions to: m.morrissey@abdn.ac.uk OR
cathy.shrank@abdn.ac.uk
Closing date for submissions: 14 February 2001. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Early submission is encouraged.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS IN THE TRANSLATIO SERIES
Migration and Acculturation (September 2001): contact Dr. Phil
Withington, Cultural History, University of Aberdeen
(p.j.withington@abdn.ac.uk)
Dissemination (January 2002): contact Dr. Cathy Shrank, English Department, University of Aberdeen (cathy.shrank@abdn.ac.uk)
Iberian Connections (May 2002): contact Dr. Kaarina Hollo, Celtic Department, University of Aberdeen (k.hollo@abdn.ac.uk)