Betwixt and Between
The Forum for Translation and Cultural Encounter
Betwixt and Between is the Queen’s University Research Forum in Translation and Cultural Encounter. As our name suggests, we explore translation both as a model for the uprooted, de-centred imagination, and as a practice that prompts us, as readers and writers, to look outwards from the heart of our own cultural matrix, to engage with conceptions of time and place that are different to our own.
The Betwixt and Between seminar
Topic: The Politics of Recognition: reassessing cultural encounter in contemporary Europe and beyond
The Betwixt and Between seminar is a year-long series of lectures from leading figures in translation studies and cognate fields. The series begins with a seminar by Professor Harish Trivedi (University of Delhi) and will include contributions from leading literary and cultural theorists, including Thomas Docherty (Warwick), among others. The intention is to collect the lectures, and a series of scholarly responses, in a tightly focussed volume of essays, to be published in 2010.
The seminar begins on April 30, with Professor Trivedi's talk on "The Politics of Cultural Translation", Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 11.00am.
The Forum is co-sponsoring the following conferences
Translation: Process and Performance - Institute of Advanced Study, University of London, Nov 23-24, 2007
Betwixt and Between III: Globalization, Interculturalization & Translation - American University of Sharjah, Dubai, Nov 28-30, 2007.
