Good morning!
This week we welcomed literary translator Ellen Jones to an online edition of our Discussion Group, where she presented her book Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas, which examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation. Thank you to everyone who attended!
This week also saw the announcement of the Shortlist for this year's Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and the official release of the programme for Oxford Translation Day! Please don't hesitate to book places at one of our exciting workshops, panels, or discussions. It promises to be a wonderful day of translation-based activities and conversations.
For more information about the OCCT, please visit our website at www.occt.ox.ac.uk!
Calls for Papers and Events
[1] Workshop: Multi-lingual Perspectives on the Colonial Novel
Wednesday 25 May 2022, 4-7pm
TORCH Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Covenors: Elleke Boehmer and Marijke Denger
Speakers: Richard Drayton, Ankhi Mukherjee, Rick Honings, and Coen van 't Veer
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multi-lingual-perspectives-on-the-colonial-novel-tickets-327345558377
[2] CfPs: Forum for Modern Language Studies Special Issues
Forum for Modern Language Studies produces two General Issues plus two Special Issues per year. These Special Issues address topical themes and debates across the journal's portfolio of languages, literatures, and cultures. They typically feature a selection of articles from different language areas covered by FMLS, ideally 3 to 4 in number.
Guest Editors for Special Issues are normally approached by the General Editors, but the journal is currently inviting proposals from suitably qualified scholars who may have a future Special Issue in view for publication in July 2024.
If you are interested in proposing a Special Issue for an upcoming issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies, please complete and return the FMLS Special Issue Proposal Form at the link below to Dr Greg Kerr (greg.kerr@glasgow.ac.uk) of the University of Glasgow:
https://academic.oup.com/fmls/pages/Special_Issues
[3] CfPs: The British Comparative Literature Association Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference: New Pathways in Comparative and World Literature
Thursday 17th - Friday 18th November 2022
Queen’s University Belfast (in-person conference)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Maeve McCusker, Dr Stefanie Lehner
Call for Papers
The 2022 British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher conference aims to assess new pathways emerging in the broad and varied fields of Comparative and World Literature, interrogating the evolution of these disciplines. The open theme of this day-and-a-half conference seeks to ensure inclusivity and flexibility for prospective speakers, allowing for expanded opportunities for interdisciplinary networking among PGRs and ECRs. The Friday morning of the conference will comprise of a series of post-PhD workshops led by ECRs of the BCLA.
In the two decades since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak provocatively declared the death of Comparative Literature, how has the field transformed? What impact has the sustained globalization and marketisation of literature had on Comparative and World Literary studies? In this present moment marked by global pandemics, climate change, multiple ongoing conflicts and mass migratory movements, what is the contemporary role of Comparative and World Literature? Indeed, what does Comparative and World Literature look like in this turbulent moment of the 21st century, and how can we begin to (re)define these disciplines? It is such questions that this conference hopes to address by examining the current state of Comparative and World Literature across a wide range of literary genres.
We invite Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working in the fields of Comparative and World Literature, broadly defined, to submit abstracts for 15-minute papers. Papers may be presented on any form of literature from any cultural context, although the lingua franca of the conference will be English. Applicants need not be current members of the BCLA, although the opportunity to join will be available during the conference.
We welcome broad and creative interpretations of the title, including, but not limited to:
- Emerging trends and new directions in Comparative / World Literature
- The future of the discipline(s)
- Alternative theoretical and pedagogical approaches to Comparative / World Literature
- Comparative / World Literature in the Digital Age
- Aesthetics and forms in Comparative / World Literature
- Language politics in Comparative / World Literature
- The politics and/or role of translation in Comparative / World Literature
- Transnational Literature
- Postcolonialism, eco-criticism and disaster narratives in Comparative / World Literature
- The impact of Covid19 on Comparative / World Literature
- Feminist and queer imaginings in Comparative / World Literature
Please send paper proposals of up to 300 words and a short biographical note to bclapostgraduate@gmail.com by Monday 25th July.
