The international research network investigating English evaluative concepts in translated religious and devotional texts (an AHRC-funded project) is holding a research symposium “Translating Texts, Cultures and Values” on Thursday, 6th November 2014 at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The topics we want to consider include but are not limited to:
- Translation as reconceptualization
- Translation as a means of mediation, negotiation, and contestation of cultural values
- The centrality of values in translated ideological and persuasive discourse
- The differences between languages and cultural traditions in the understanding of key evaluative concepts
- Conceptual ethnocentrism in the area of values manifested in translation
- The challenges in negotiating English evaluative concepts (e.g. clarity, commitment, decency, fairness, humility, integrity, justice, etc.) in translation
- Parallel and conflicting narratives in cross-cultural and cross-religious dialogue
Please send proposals for papers (up to 300 words) by 15 September to Piotr Blumczynski: p.blumczynski [at] qub.ac.uk
CFP – Translating texts, cultures and values – Belfast 6 Nov 2014.docx