Edinburgh workshop on translation, trauma and silence

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‘Translation,Trauma and Silence’:
A Work-in-Progress Workshop
Friday, 12April 2013IASH,University of Edinburgh
Thisworkshop aims to provide scholars, working in different disciplines and indifferent languages, with an interdisciplinary forum in which to explore theintersections between translation (understood in its interlingual, multimodaland metaphoric senses), trauma and/or silence.
Contributionsare invited from scholars from any discipline whose work intersects with one ormore of the broad themes translation, trauma and/or silence.
Issuesand challenges addressed might include the textualization of trauma and ofsilence, the mediation of traumatic experience, (mis)communication,distortions, corrections and loss, censorships, exposures and revelations, theethics of speaking and of knowing, and different cultural coding of silence ortrauma. Concerns regarding the limitations, the frustrations and the potentialof words will be at the forefront of the workshop.
Sessionsmay take the form of paper/discussion, panel discussion or more informalworkshop: proposals for hour-long sessions are welcomed. We would particularlywelcome contributions from postgraduates and contract researchers.
Theworkshop will include contributions from two keynote speakers:
Prof.Jean Boase-Beier (University of East Anglia): ‘Translating Celan’sSilences’
Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University):‘The Silence of the Polyglot: an InarticulateDarkness’
Proposedoutcomes:•       toidentify synergies between existing theoretical and methodological approachesto translation, trauma and silence;•       toexplore interdisciplinary approaches that critique current theories andmethods;•       toopen up new avenues of research and facilitate potential collaborations;•       togenerate ideas for channels of knowledge exchange;•       tosupport a larger funding bid to the AHRC on translating Holocaust testimonies
To register forthe event or to submit a proposal, please get in touch with Sharon Deane-Cox (sharon.deane@ed.ac.uk) before 15^thMarch 2013.