Moore Institute

Translation Studies Network of Ireland (TSNI) Conference 2024
2024-04-25 - 2024-04-26 | THB-G010 & THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Rooms, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation Studies Network of Ireland Conference Programme
25-26 April 2024
University of Galway
We are delighted to host the 4th annual conference of the Translation Studies Network of Ireland at the University of Galway, on April 25-26, 2024. This year, the theme of the conference is “Translation and Creativity”, which mirrors our city’s proud tradition of combining grass roots creativity with the delivery of sophisticated arts and creative spectacles.
The way in which translation has intersected with creativity ranges from the Romantic stereotype of the creator as individual genius to the ultimate frontier of deep learning and machine translation. In this conference we wish to explore linguistic, cultural, modal, disciplinary, multimedia and performative creativity as it translates between forms, languages, people, approaches and media.
If just before the turn of the millennium translation was seen as mainly dependent on the distance from the original, as well as on print as the medium of choice, it has steadily acquired a more dialogic and re-creational dimension, becoming an integral part of the creative writing process to the point to which it can even create new literature in computer-mediated environments. With more attention paid to re-writing processes and sociolinguistic factors, the “creative wave” in translation studies has encompassed processes such as self-translation, re-translation, multimodality, hybridity and artistic expression. Finally, and without exhausting the wealth of areas in which translators’ creativity plays a seminal role, migration in the 21st century and other significant population displacements have increased our awareness of the importance of translation for new community building and have drastically reshaped the dynamics between norms and creativity.
In this conference we welcome any contributions introducing interdisciplinary approaches or mixed methods to study translation and creativity, and we also welcome presentations which showcase creative practice in translation.
A non-exhaustive list of possible topics for presentations includes:

Translation and/as creative writing
Translation, creative media and multimodality
Creativity in translation processes/workflows
Machine translation and creativity
Interdisciplinarity as creative approach
Creativity and interpreting
Translation as an art form
Translation/ creativity/ environment
Minority approaches to translation as creativity
Beyond (in)visibility: claiming translators’ identity as creative individuals
Playfulness in translation
Translation, transcreation and adaptation in multimodal contexts
Translation, adaptation and subversion across different art forms
Creative approaches to translation research methodology
Limits and possibilities of human and computational creativity
Translation as creative approach in resilient community building
Creativity in volunteer or professional settings
Creativity and translation shift: novelty, acceptability, fluency and flexibility
Socio-political agendas promoted or challenged by creative translational acts.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME is now available HERE.
There will also be a dedicated posters display during the conference.

ISTR Conference 2024 – Call for Papers
2024-05-24 - 2024-05-25 | Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA
ISTR Conference 2024 – Call for Papers
New Horizons – Race and Performance
Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, May 24-25, 2024
The host of the conference, David Cregan, OSA, Ph.D. will organize an ISTR webinar in 2024 to share conference details and planning travel.
Keynotes:
James Ijames MFA, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner for his play Fat Ham
https://www.jamesijames.com/
Justine Nakase Ph.D., theatre maker and scholar based in Portland, OR. She received her PhD from the University of Galway, where her research focused on race and identity in contemporary Irish performance.
New Horizons – Race and Performance:
This conference invites interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary scholars and artists, including but not limited to: theatre and literary historians, dramaturgs, anthropologists, cultural critics, casting agents, and theatre administrators engaged or interested in Irish identity in theatre and performance. The conference aims to advance the centuries old dialogue of race and identity in Irish culture and representation, with an emphasis on current evolutions in identity and multiculturalism. We hope to explore new horizons by asking questions such as, but not limited to: How has the postcolonial narrative evolved in Irish drama and performance and is it still applicable? Is it possible that the repetition of narratives of oppression have locked artistic expression in the theatre into limitations of realism and identity, thus limiting the possibilities of more diverse practices and more diverse articulations of identity? Is Irish theatre and performance racist? What is beginning to emerge in the expression of Irish theatre and performance? What is actually happening in Irish theatre, and what more still needs to happen in response to diversity and inclusion? New Horizons welcomes new epistemologies, practices, and emergent possibilities in all aspects of theatre and performance.
ISTR 2024 hopes to engage querying conversations around emergent global realities and opportunities within Irish theatre scholarship and practice. The shifting nature of the globalization of identities, migrant refugees, climate change migration, economic instability, gender inequality, homophobia, human trafficking, and ubiquitous political instability, to name but a few, are shifting human consciousness, understanding, and practices. The resulting shifts in rapidly changing continental populations at an ever accelerating rate are continually challenging more flexible notions and practices of what we call identity politics. Hosting the conference in the United States provides an opportunity explore the hybridization of identities indicative of the ‘melting pot’ notion is the USA. Through scholarly research, human experience, and prophetic visioning, we hope to contribute new and diverse epistemologies, both intellectual and practical to encourage and promote an evolution in Irish theatre and performance reflective of the basic reality of the human family. We invite papers and presentations, conversations and debates, that name the current realities, and envision the potentiality of a new world vision of respect and dignity advanced by the arts.
Please email abstracts of 250 words by March 15, 2024, including a brief bio: david.cregan@villanova.edu
Please click below for initial travel information and details.
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/student-life/family/visit.html

Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024: Slow Violence X Irish Studies - Call for Contributions
2024-06-05 - 2024-06-07 | The Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024
Slow Violence X Irish Studies – Call for Contributions
5-7 June 2024
We welcome written abstracts and practice-based submissions in English, Irish, and French, inspired by the theme of slow violence, for the Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2024.
Coined over ten years ago in the influential Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), Rob Nixon challenged readers to consider the incremental and cumulative effects of “slow violence,” expanding on more limited conceptualisations of violence as sensational, explosive, and episodic. Nixon’s expansive term was initially employed to describe the “attritional lethality” of gradual, and often invisible, forms of environment violence, such as deforestation and oil spills; yet, at the interdisciplinary nexus of Irish Studies, the conference’s conveners suggest that “slow violence” can be a theoretical springboard not only for conversations about the status and future of the environment in Ireland, but also myriad social, political, and cultural “long emergencies.”
Please read our Call for Papers (available in English, Irish, and French) for further details.
All are available here: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/geography-archaeology-irish-studies/disciplines/irish-studies/news/galwayconferenceofirishstudies2024/callforcontributions/
Please submit your 250 word proposal and a brief bio (~50 words) by 15 December, 2023 to irishstudies24@gmail.com.
