UCD School of Languages and Literatures

'Power and Perspective', Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies International Conference

Newman House, 86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

General Information

Programme

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Organisers: Dr Derval Conroy (UCD) & Prof Jane Conroy (NUI Galway)

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27 June 2008

Teaching the Early Modern Period

International Conference, Newman House,
University College Dublin

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7 - 8 March 2008

International Conference
Association of Latin Americanists in Ireland
Symbols and Images of Latin America

University College Dublin

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27 – 29 March 2008

International Conference
Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning

National University of Ireland, Maynooth
&
University College Dublin

While translation exercises in recent decades have been increasingly disregarded as unsuitable devices to facilitate and enhance foreign language learning, the concept of translation has, at the same time, entered the discourses of cultural and social studies, thus expanding the traditional linguistic concept of translation to social and cultural contexts. These developments had repercussions for the notion and status of translation in the foreign language classroom since the new approaches focus not so much on translation as linguistic-textual products but rather on the dynamic processes involved and on the socio-cultural contexts of concepts.

For foreign language teaching/learning methodology there are undoubtedly a number of elements in the emerging enhanced status of translation which merit a more thorough consideration; some of them are of a more practical nature (e.g. the comparatively stress-free confrontation with the written text as opposed to classroom communication) but some are of more fundamental, even philosophical character (e.g. the question of semiotic mediation, cultural re-contextualisation, conceptual appropriation, metaphorical competence and conceptual fluency).
Furthermore there is the vitally important issue of encountering the voice of the ‘other’ and his/her ‘otherness’ through original texts in a natural habitat, which, for a number of reasons, cannot be adequately reproduced in didactically structured textbooks.

We would like to invite papers on these and related issues which could focus on

• the potential for a re-evaluation of translation exercises in foreign language methodology and classroom practice
• the role of translation in the area of facilitating intercultural awareness and intercultural competence
• the procedural character of translation as a means of appropriation of concepts
• the potential of translation for stimulating a heightened awareness of differences of linguistic perspectives in general
• the potential of translation for motivation
• translation and the construction of identity in the process of learning a foreign language
• limitations of translating culture-specific concepts, values, practices and norms
• the relevance of translation for constructing hybrid intercultural spaces

Please send an abstract of max. 200 words
Deadline: Friday, 16th November 2006

Contacts:

Dr. Arnd Witte
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of German
NUI Maynooth
a.writte@nuim.ie

Alessandra Oliveira M.A.
SLL
UCD, Dublin
oliveira.ales@gmail.com

Prof. Dr Theo Harden
SLL
UCD, Dublin
theo.harden@ucd.ie
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14 - 15 December 2007

Migrancy at Work: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

International Conference at HII, University College Dublin
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11 - 13 October 2007

Defining Space Conference

Newman House and the National Gallery of Ireland

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21 - 22 September 2007

Guillevic Centenary Conference
Guillevic : la poésie à la lumière du quotidien
Guillevic : Poetry in the Light of the Everyday
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5th - 7th July 2007

International Goldoni Conference

This is to celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of the Italian Dramatist Carlo Goldoni.

Goldoni, the most important and influential playwright in the eighteenth century wrote more than 150 comedies in Italian, Venetian, and in two instances French. In addition he provided some 50 ‘libretti’ and shorter ‘intermezzi’ that were set to music by such composers as Paisiello, Galuppi, Piccini, Cimarosa, and Hayden. Known as the Italian Molière, like his French predecessor he derived his prime inspiration from the ‘Commedia dell’Arte’, the improvised Italian theatre of the Masks. As the reformer of this theatrical genre he provided Italy with a comic literary tradition that achieved European fame.

Goldoni took up residence in Paris in 1762. He was first affiliated to the Théatre Italien, but later withdrew to Versailles where he became tutor to, first the daughter of Louis XV, and later to the sisters of Louis XVI. Goldoni died penniless in Paris in 1793 at the height of the French Revolution.

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UCD School of Languages and Literatures

Scoil na dTeangacha agus na Litríochta UCD

Conferences

Upcoming Conferences for Academic Year 2011/2012

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18th- 20th June 2009 Focus on Futurism

24th and 25th June 2009, Dublin Interdisciplinary conference on Eduard Hanslick

27 June 2008

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7 - 8 March 2008

International Conference Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning

National University of Ireland, Maynooth & University College Dublin

Contacts:

Upcoming Conferences for Academic Year
2011/2012

18th- 20th June 2009

Focus on Futurism

24th and 25th June 2009, Dublin
Interdisciplinary conference on Eduard Hanslick

International Conference
Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning

National University of Ireland, Maynooth
&
University College Dublin