{"id":2783,"date":"2023-06-01T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traduccioneinterpretacion.org\/?page_id=2783"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T08:30:41","slug":"keynote-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traduccioneinterpretacion.org\/en\/conference2024\/programme\/keynote-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Programme<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Keynote Lectures<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n
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Mona Baker<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Activist Translator Communities in the 21st Century: Challenging or Reinforcing Structures of Power?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Language: English. Interpreting: Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday 17 April, 9.30 am<\/a>. Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translation has the potential to play a transformative role in reconfiguring social and political relations by articulating new forms of knowledge through the responsible confrontation of diverse epistemologies and cultural experiences. The work of activist groups such as Guerrilla Translators and Respond Crisis Translation attests to the power of translation in this respect. At the same time, translational encounters, even when well intentioned, can be exploitative, manipulative, and can reinforce rather than challenge structures of power. This is evident in the work of a growing number of \u2018activist\u2019 groups that claim to offer volunteer translation to spread purportedly progressive ideas and support marginalized communities. Some of these groups adopt discourses of globalization, development, human rights, diversity and mutual understanding that mask aggressive processes of homogenization, exclusion and co-optation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on earlier studies of activist communities of translation and interpreting, by myself and others, this presentation will offer a critical analysis of the political positioning and language policies of a number of recently founded groups of volunteer translators and interpreters. With some exceptions, much of the work of these (often well intentioned) groups will be shown to perpetuate epistemic injustice and reinforce existing social and political inequalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mona Baker<\/strong> is Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Health Education (SHE)<\/a>, University of Oslo, where she is responsible for developing the Oslo Medical Corpus<\/span>, co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network<\/a>, and Director of the Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies<\/a> at Shanghai International Studies University. She is author of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation<\/cite> and Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account<\/cite>; co-author (with Eivind Engebretsen) of Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics<\/cite>; editor of Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution<\/cite> (winner of the 2016 Intranews Linguist of the Year Award<\/span>); and co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies<\/cite> and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media<\/cite>. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of international journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications<\/cite>, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy<\/cite>, Social Movement Studies<\/cite>, Critical Studies on Terrorism<\/cite>, Social Semiotics<\/cite>, Translation Studies<\/cite> and The Translator<\/cite>. She posts on translation, citizen media and Palestine on her personal website<\/a> and tweets at @MonaBaker11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Francisco Moreno Fern\u00e1ndez<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Language norms and practices<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Language: Spanish. Interpreting: English.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday 17 April, 3.45 pm<\/a>. Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cnorm\u201d refers to a cross-disciplinary concept which requires one to reflect and continually decide on its scope in both theory and practice. The complexity of the concept demands an analysis of the implications that the concept of “norm” has on the training, activity and evaluation of professionals who work with language as a prime ingredient. The norm is analysed from different disciplines of social science, offering a conceptual typology which aims to clarify some of the most frequent aporia and contradictions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Francisco Moreno Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the Complutense University in Madrid. He has a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Political Science and Sociology. Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies. He is a specialist in dialectology, sociolinguistics, sociology of language and linguistic methodology. His most recent publications include Tras Babel. De la naturaleza social del lenguaje<\/cite> (2018), La lengua espa\u00f1ola en su geograf\u00eda<\/cite> (5th ed. 2020), Variedades de la lengua espa\u00f1ola<\/cite> (2020), La lengua y el sue\u00f1o de la identidad<\/cite> (2020), La lengua de los hispanos unidos de Am\u00e9rica. Cr\u00f3nica de resistencia<\/cite> (2022) and, with Roc\u00edo Caravedo, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology<\/cite> (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Professor at the University of Alcal\u00e1. He is a Full Member of the Academia Europaea and of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, and a Corresponding Member of the Cuban, Mexican and Chilean Academies of Language, as well as of the Spanish Royal Academy. He directed the Instituto Cervantes centres in S\u00e3o Paulo and Chicago. Former Academic Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid and the former Director of the Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States of the Instituto Cervantes<\/a> at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founding Editor of the journal Lengua y migraci\u00f3n \/ Language & Migration<\/cite>, Executive Editor of the journal Spanish in Context<\/cite> and Co-editor of the Journal of Linguistic Geography<\/cite>. Member of the Editorial and Scientific Boards of various specialised journals, including: Revista Internacional de Ling\u00fc\u00edstica Iberoamericana<\/cite>, Journal of World Languages<\/cite>, Bolet\u00edn de Filolog\u00eda de la Universidad de Chile<\/cite>, Revista Espa\u00f1ola de Ling\u00fc\u00edstica Aplicada<\/cite> and Oralia<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sherry Simon<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Speaking Memory: Translation Sites and their Conflicting Stories<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Language: English. Interpreting: Spanish.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 18 April, 9.00 am<\/a>. Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A hotel in Sarajevo, a memorial in Lviv, a bridge in Mostar, a museum in Ottawa, a garden in Ireland, a market in Hong Kong and a church in Toledo, these are all sites shaped by conversations across languages. Here words and histories meet \u2013 in modes of coexistence, rivalry or conquest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation sites are places of overlapping and conflicting stories. To visit them is to experience competing versions of history and the uneven fit between present and past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This presentation will focus on the city of Prague between 1900 and 1935, and the opera houses that crystallized its competing cultural worlds. During a period of great effervescence, musicians and mediators played important roles, among others, Max Brod, Leos Janacek, Milena Jesenska, Alexander Zemlinsky, making Prague an emblematic translational city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sherry Simon<\/strong> is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Concordia University. She has published widely in the areas of intercultural and translation studies, most recently exploring the cultural history of linguistically divided cities, multilingual cities in situations of post-conflict and the cities of the former Habsburg empire. Among her recent publications are Translation Sites. A Field Guide<\/cite> and Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory<\/cite>, both of which have appeared in French translation. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Acad\u00e9mie des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: A Critical Reflection<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Thursday 18 April, 3.30 pm<\/a>. Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complexity thinking has now been around in translation studies for quite a while. On the one hand, scholars engaged the topic positively in search of concepts and methods that would add value in translation studies. On the other hand, as is to be expected, scholars have engaged critically with a complexity approach to translation studies while not dismissing the endeavour in its totality (Pym, 2023; Robinson, 2022; 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is perhaps time, for someone like me who has been invested in this approach over the past 15 years, to stand back and take a reflective view on the emergence of complexity thinking in translation studies. Taking stock of the emergence of a scholarly trajectory is required every so often in order to orientate oneself to the developments, the problems and the unfinished tasks that remain ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This presentation therefore invites a critical engagement about a complexity approach to translation by engaging with some of the criticism. The main task, however, will be to map an agenda for further research, based on the critical reflection, to continue the development of the approach. I engage the latest literature on complexity thinking generally and the complexity of constraints and absentials (Deacon, 2013; Juarrero, 2023) in particular to work out a nuanced conceptual framework with which to study the emergence of any semiotic trajectory (Byrne & Callaghan, 2023) through a process of translation. In addition, I consider a soft causality for social-cultural studies that is able to reflect the complexity of causality in these domains by further exploring the notion of \u2018propensity\u2019 (Williams, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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