Cultural Translation

Cultural Translation

11^th December 2009, Cardiff University

Call for Papers

 

Etymologically, the word translation is linked, among other things, to “tradition” on the one hand and to “betrayal” on the other. … And yet the word tradition itself, linked in its roots to translation and betrayal, has to do with handing over. Tradition itself is nothing if it is not a transmission. How is tradition to be transmitted, to be passed on, if not through translation? (Rey Chow)

 

The process of “cultural translation” is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power – professional, national, international. … Given that that is so, the interesting question for enquiry is … how power enters into the process of “cultural translation” (Talal Asad)

 

 

For this free interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals on problematics of:

• Intercultural encounters
• Translation between cultures
• Postcolonialism and the politics of translation
• Diaspora, migration, mobility and cultural practices
• Ethnicity, language, representation and cultural identity
• Theories and practices of cultural translation
• Tradition, transmission, translation and problems of origins
• Re-examining the assumptions of translation
• Questions of technology, mediation and the voice
• Ethical and political problems in academic methodologies

 

Proposals: 400-word proposals for 20-minute papers.

Deadline: 1^st September 2009

Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk

 

NB: This conference is free. Places are strictly limited. Papers will be selected by committee.

 

Organisation: The conference is organised by:

• The Cardiff Humanities Research Institute Project, ‘Representing Migration and Mobility in European Cultures’ (Cardiff School of European Studies);
• The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies).

 

 

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Friedrich Engels: The Frock-Coated Communist

Friedrich Engels: The Frock-Coated Communist

The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

Tristram Hunt talks about his new book:

21^st May, 7.00pm, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH  

Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the 19th century. A co-founder of international communism and co-author of The Communist Manifesto, Engels was far more than Marx’s right-hand man. He was a profound thinker in his own right who predicted the social effects of today’s free-market fundamentalism and globalisation. In this talk, Tristram Hunt discusses his biography of Engels, The Frock-Coated Communist, and considers how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with his uncompromising political philosophy.

Dr Tristram Hunt is one of Britain’s best known young historians. He is a lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London and a former associate fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge. A leading historical broadcaster, he has authored numerous series for BBC Radio and Television and Channel 4 and is a regular contributor to The Times, The Guardian and The Observer.

 

This event is organised in partnership with Newham Bookshop.

745-747 Barking Road, London E13 9ER: http://newhambooks.co.uk/blog

 

Tickets £6 (Concessions £4)

Tel: 020 7392 9220

Further details and online booking: http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/events_details.asp?EventsID=382

 

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After 1968

After 1968: The Singular, The Trans-individual and the Common

 

Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
After 1968
http://www.after1968.org/index.php/lectures/view/15
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/

Tuesday 19 May
14:00 – 18:00

After 1968: The singular, the trans-individual and the common
— lectures organised by Sara Farris
— auditorium

14:00
Introduction by Sara Farris

14:10
Luca Basso
”Singularity and the common in Marx”

 

14:50
break

15:05
Vittorio Morfino
”Individuation and trans-individual in Simondon and Althusser”

15:50
discussion

 

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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror

 

Centre of African Studies, SOAS, University of London, presents:

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror
By Mahmood Mamdani

 

Mahmmod Mandani will present his recently published book Saviors and Survivors at SOAS, as part of this UK tour. The book is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider events within the broad context of Sudan’s history, and to examine the efficacy of the world’s response to the crisis.

Wednesday 03 June 2009
5.30pm, Room G3
SOAS
All welcome

SOAS
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG

 

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The Geopolitics of Global Energy

The Geopolitics of Global Energy: International Competition, Rivalry and Conflict

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/news/thegeopoliticsofglobalenergy

The Geopolitics of Global Energy: International Competition, Rivalry and Conflict
An International Workshop on 28-29 May 2009, Birkbeck College, University of London

For further information and free registration please contact: a.colas@bbk.ac.uk

 

In recent years questions surrounding energy security have become the focus of international security and global politics. A number of issues have been central to these debates:

 
    • The impact of high energy prices on economic development and 
political stability within states
    • The dependence of industrialised states on sources of energy from 
unstable geopolitical zones
    • The role of states in securing access to and control of energy 
resources
    • The relationship between commercial energy producers and 
distributors to governments
    • The geopolitical consequences of the increased leverage of energy 
producing states
    • The international political and geopolitical consequences of the 
competition amongst states to secure access to and control of energy resources

This workshop brings together a number of international specialists on energy security and geopolitics in order to shed further theoretical and empirical light on contemporary resource competition and rivalry, especially – though not exclusively – between the West and its Eurasian contenders. In particular the workshop will compare and contrast the strategies and policies of states in the Europe, the Americas, East Asia and Africa, as both producers and consumers of energy. It seeks, additionally, to explore with greater rigour and precision the meaning and purchase of the ‘geopolitical’ turn in contemporary international studies.

 

Programme:

 

Mark BASSIN, University of Birmingham – ‘Energy and the Geopolitics of Russian Neo-Imperialism’

Cyrus BINA, University of Minnesota, USA – ‘Oil: The Geopolitics of Energy in the Epoch of Globalization’

Klaus DODDS, Royal Holloway, University of London – ‘The Arctic in the Global Imagination: Geopolitics, Resources, and Environment’

Dominick JENKINS, formerly of Greenpeace, London – ‘Churchill, Oil and the Royal Navy’

Ray KIELY, Queen Mary, University of London – ‘Theories of Imperialism, Contemporary Geopolitics and the Rise of China’

Kees VAN DER PIJL, University of Sussex – ‘The West, Georgia and Russia-Rearticulating Politics and Economics’

Gonzalo POZO-MARTIN, School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, University of London – ‘Inflammable Politics: Russia, Ukraine and NATO Enlargement’

Sam RAPHAEL, University of Kingston – ‘US Empire and the Control of Oil: Lessons from the Caspian Basin’

Doug STOKES, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent – ‘Unpacking the Logics of the US Global Oil Order’

Javier VADELL, Catholic University, Belo Horizonte, Minais Gerais, Brazil – ‘The Chinese Economic Penetration of South America and the US Response’

Paris YEROS, Catholic University, Belo Horizonte, Minais Gerais, Brazil – ‘Emergent (Sub) Imperialisms: The New Scramblers for Africa’s Energy and Minerals’

 

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Conference on Giovanni Arrighi

Conference on Giovanni Arrighi

http://madrid2009arrighi.blogspot.com/

Conference on the Work of Giovanni Arrighi

“Dynamics of the Global Crisis, Anti-Systemic Movements and New Models of Hegemony”

“Dinámica de la crisis global, movimientos antisistémicos y nuevos modelos de la hegemonía”

At the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

25-29 May 2009

Participants: Giovanni Arrighi, Perry Anderson, Beverly Silver, David Harvey, Robert Brenner, Samir Amin, Emir Sader, Walden Bello, Theotonio dos Santos, Marcello de Cecco, Ravi Palat, John Saul, Ho-Fung Hung, Gillian Hart, Lu Aiguo, Ravi Sundaram, Takeshi Hamashita, Amiya Bagchi, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Luis Sandoval Ramírez, William Martin, Tom Reifer, Siba Grovogui

Organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
http://www.museoreinasofia.es
and the Universidad Nómada
http://www.universidadnomada.net

Sponsored by the Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos and CLACSO

Full programme available here: http://madrid2009arrighi.blogspot.com/

“Remenbering Giovanni Arrighi” – by Steven Colatrella, from Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/colatrella06242009.html 

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1989-2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective

1989-2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective

Conference announcement and call for papers and panel proposals

“1989-2009: the East European revolutions in perspective”

Organised by “Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern  Europe”

Location and date: University of London Union, 17-18 October 2009

Keynote speakers: Boris Kagarlitsky, Caroline Humphrey, Gáspár Miklós Tamas, Peter Gowan, Alex Callinicos, Catherine Samary, Bernd Gehrke

Abstracts and panel proposals, by end June 2009, to: gareth.dale@brunel.ac.uk

For further info: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/conferences/cdeb_09.pdf

 

 

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Creationism (Wrong), Evolution (Right) – Steve Jones

Against Educational Illiteracy: Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right

Professor Steve Jones

Thursday June 4^th 2009, University College London, 17.00 reception, 17.30 lecture, 18.30 refreshments, Great Hall, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS
All Welcome

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics and Head of the Biology Department at University College London.  

Guests are kindly requested to register online: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/education/annual/

Or RSVP to leonie.taylor@kcl.ac.uk

Leonie Taylor
Marketing & Publicity Officer
Department of Education & Professional Studies
King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building
Rm 1/1 Waterloo Bridge Wing
Waterloo Road
London SE1 9NH
Tel : +44 (0)207 848 3139
Fax: +44 (0)207 848 3182

 

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Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

Call for essays: Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

In the wake of the credit crisis, and subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008, many consider neoliberalism an outmoded project, with even neoconservatives acknowledging the need for the nation state to play an increasingly interventionist role. However, why then, is it reasonable to say that theorizations of neoliberalism as a “historically produced dialogue and encounter between cultures” (Rofel, 2007) is yet to be an exhausted theme? We aim to move beyond the tendency to totalize neoliberalism as a monolithic template, because it has shown such a “pure” form of capitalism, it becomes especially valuable in understanding the culture and subjectivities capital produces. Particularly when neoliberalism is becoming less popular as an explanatory term for conservatives it is still important to use it as a lens to understand capitalism and its human consequences. Thus we wish to interpret how different subjects and subjectivities were formed and how neoliberalism re-imagined itself through different social and cultural compositions across the globe. Looking back over the last 30 years it seems clear that cinematic representations of a global variety can help to measure such compositions, and that cinema is a crucial medium in conceptualizing neoliberalism’s dubious legacy. Therefore many of the repercussions and immiserations that neoliberalism has caused is still ripe for analysis.

We seek essays for this anthology that address how not only national but diasporic cinemas that contest or comply with such mediated perspectives of culture through neoliberalism—what we might call anti-neoliberal or pro-neoliberal cinemas. Authors should consider how cinema can help to not only understand particular political economic challenges under neoliberalism, but how understanding these challenges can in turn articulate neoliberalism’s contradictory effects on culture. This approach, along with changes in national film industries and global markets, and other related ideas are welcomed How concepts of the nation state, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity were transformed are welcome.

We are interested in gathering work from the following geographical areas: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Algeria, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Egypt, Hong Kong, China, Spain, Italy, Chile, Sweden, Denmark, and the US and UK and comparative perspectives.

Dates and Submissions Policy:
All submissions should not exceed 8,000 words and will be independently peer reviewed. All essays should be sent for consideration to ( keith_wagner@mail.uri.com ). This anthology has early interest from a publisher and therefore the deadline for submissions is 25th August 2009.

 

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The Future of Capitalism

The Future of Capitalism 

 

The Financial Times today has a special magazine on The Future of Capitalism. Leading economic analysts, journalists and academics discuss this question in light of the current crisis of capitalism.

 

Contributors include:

Lionel Barber, Gary Becker, Larry Fink, Chrystia Freeland, Alan Greenspan, Francesco Guerrera, Paul Kennedy, Nigel Lawson, Kishore Mahbubani, Kevin Murphy, Edmund Phelps, Amartya Sen, Robert Shiller, Sir Martin Sorrell, Joseph Stiglitz, and Martin Wolf.

  

The Financial Times also has a web site on ‘The Future of Capitalism’, at: http://www.ft.com/indepth/capitalism-future

 

 

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