Author: Josh

Deadline: June 1, 2023

27-29 September, 2023

Yerevan, Armenia

Keynote speakers: Theo Hermans (University College London)Theo Maarten van Lint (University of Oxford)Brian James Baer (Kent State University)Alvard Jivanyan (Yerevan State University)

Call for Papers

The practice of mediated or indirect translation has a long-standing history and for centuries a large corpus of literature – both literary and technical — has been made available to a much wider audience through translation from an intermediary language. Yet, translation scholars have traditionally paid little attention to the concept of mediated or indirect translation regarding it as a poor quality and second-rate form of translation. It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the concept of indirect translation grew in popularity and became the focus of linguistic research. The role of mediated translation is pivotal since it enables to disseminate authors’ voices from and to every stretch of the globe. Nowadays, due to globalization, the practice of indirect translation is widely applied in cross-cultural communication. The majority of international organizations adopt it, where a large number of working languages often results in drafting documents via the linguae francae — English these days or some other mediating languages.

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Deadline: February 24, 2023

We are excited to announce the ASEEES Music Study Group’s sponsored session for ASEEES 2023 in Philadelphia. In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Decolonization,” we are inviting a range of proposals that address the many ways in which music captures, responds to, or amplifies “(De)colonial Voices”—please see the detailed CfP below. While we hope to attract proposals that reflect on the ASEEES 2023 theme, we will also consider music-related proposals even if they don’t speak directly to it. We are currently planning this session to be part of the in-person convention on Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023.

Please submit a brief proposal for this session and a 2-3 sentence bio blurb, as well as your preference for a roundtable or panel format to David Salkowski (Secretary, dsalkows@utk.edu) by Friday, February 24.After collecting proposals, we (the MSG officers) will submit the proposal to ASEEES on the group’s behalf. We welcome proposals from all disciplines, and we particularly encourage submissions from group members who have not yet presented as part of the sponsored session.

We look forward to receiving your proposals, and please, let us know if you have any questions. 

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Deadline: March 15, 2023

http://www.escas.org/next-conference/

22 – 24 September 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan 

Deadline for abstract submission : 15 March 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) invites proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions for the 18th ESCAS conference, which will take place on 22-24 September 2023, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In line with regional traditions, the conference will have a nomadic format and will be held in collaboration with  the German-Kazakh University, Ablai Khan University, Al Farabi University and KIMEP University. This format will allow you to experience different academic environments and networking with colleagues from various disciplines. 

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Deadline: March 1, 2023

Symposium: The Weird Russian 19th Century

April 28, 2023

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (via Zoom)

Organizers: Arpi Movsesian and Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers University)

Keynote speaker: Jacob Emery (Indiana University Bloomington) 

Nineteenth-century Russian literature is weird. But what is it exactly that makes it weird? Russophone writers of the era wrestled with different aspects of this umbrella category as a kind of strangeness, otherness, and disability. Meanwhile, a rise in the medicalization of eccentricity in this time period, in Russia as elsewhere, led to both diagnoses and cultural perceptions of difference as deviancy. As such, women, minorities, and those on the margins were particularly vulnerable to being categorized as “weird” in their portrayals in Russophone works. How do writers of the nineteenth century grapple with the weird, find meaning, beauty, ugliness, or perplexity within it, and ultimately push the boundaries of the acceptable and the “normal”? 

We welcome 250-word abstracts for 15-minute paper presentations on weirdness broadly defined in Russophone literature of the nineteenth century. Presentations will be followed by ample time for discussion. Please submit your abstract to movsesian@greell.rutgers.edu by March 1, 2023. Selected participants will be notified by March 15.

The symposium will take place on Zoom.