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Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 19.3: Postcolonial Speculative Literature

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The final issue of Comparative Critical Studies for 2022 is now available online:  Postcolonial Speculative LiteratureGuest Edited by July Blalack and Tasnim Qutait https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ccs/19/3 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Speculative Fiction Beyond the WestTasnim Qutait  and July Blalack 19(3), pp. 281–296 Essays ‘Poison Rainbows’: The Speculative Jurisdiction of Okorafor’s LagoonTabea Wilkes19(3), pp. 299–313 ‘Uncertain Voyages of Signification’: Salvage Poetics of the CaribatopiaCathy Thomas19(3), pp. 315–340 Borders, Boundaries and …

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Bristol Translates: Literary Translation Summer School, University of Bristol, 3 – 7 July 2023

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Aimed at practising translators at any stage of their career and at language enthusiasts who want to explore the world of literary translation, Bristol Translates offers the opportunity to work with leading professional translators to translate texts across the literary genres into English. Bristol Translates summer school takes place entirely online, making it accessible to …

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Announcement: Winners of the BCLA John Dryden Translation Competition 2021 – 2022

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The BCLA is delighted to announce the outcome of the John Dryden Translation Competition. The John Dryden Translation Competition awards prizes for unpublished literary translations from any language into English. Literary translation includes poetry, prose, or drama from any period. AILSA WOOD AZZARO has been awarded first place for The Beatrice Monologues translated from Stefano Benni’s Italian …

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Conference: Decadent Bodies, Goldsmiths University of London, 28 – 29 July 2022 (deadline 31 March, 2022)

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Decadence has an uneasy relationship with the body. It is at once a site of profound sensorial pleasure, and a material trapping to be escaped through aesthetic or narcotic stimulation. Decadence is ‘of’ the body – it augments its sensorial capabilities and cultivates uncommon tastes – but it also recognises the body as that which …

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IMLR, University of London Early Career Fellowships: Inclusion, Participation and Engagements (deadline 11 March 2022)

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INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCHSchool of Advanced Study • University of LondonEarly Career Fellowships: Inclusion, Participation and EngagementThe Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies, and Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, are offering three five-month funded fellowships in languages, literatures and cultures. These are intended to support projects that …

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OCCT Conference: Metaphors in Translation (St Anne’s College, Oxford; 26 February 2022)

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Saturday 26 February 2022, 9am – 5:15pm (GMT)Seminar Rooms 10 and 11, St Anne’s College, Oxford, OX2 6HS To register, please see the event page (https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/metaphors-translation-conference). 9:00-9:15: Introductory Remarks9:15-10:45: Postgraduate Roundtable: Metaphors for Translation11:00-12:30: Workshop with Sophie Seita: Visualising and Performing Translational Metaphors12:30-13:30: Lunch13:30-15:00: Translator Roundtable: Translating Metaphors15:15-16:45: Workshop with Hélène Boisson: Images and Analogies in Children’s Literature17:00-17:15: …

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NOW OPEN: Malcolm Bowie Prize 2021 (Deadline 28 February 2022)

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In 2008 the Society for French Studies launched an annual Malcolm Bowie Prize, to be awarded for the best article published in the preceding year by an early-career researcher in the broader discipline of French Studies.  Malcolm Bowie was not only the most eminent and inspirational Anglophone scholar of French literature and theory of his …

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Online Conference: Women’s Narratives of Aging and Care, Institute of Modern Languages Research, London, 18 March 2022

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Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s WritingInstitute of Modern Languages Research 18 March 20229.00 am – 4.20 pm GMT UK time https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25056 Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, and undervalued. Care of the old, in particular, is low in status and too readily occluded. This event seeks to …

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Online Research Seminars, Translation and Transcultural Studies, University of Warwick, Spring 2022

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The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Warwick) is delighted to announce its forthcoming events as part of the Spring Term programme of online research seminars in Translation and Transcultural Studies. Wednesday 2nd February 2022, 5-6pm (UK time) Dr David Orrego-Carmona (Aston University, UK / University of the Free State, South Africa): ‘Translation users: societal implications of (in)visible translations‘ The event takes place on MS Teams. We would …

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Double Issue: Comparative Critical Studies, vol. 18. 2-3: “Randomness”

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In early March 2020, plans for the British Comparative Literature Association’s Triennial Conference were well underway. Venues had been booked, panels had been scheduled, and social activities arranged. We, the organizing committee, Professor Francesca Orsini, Dr Nicola Thomas and Dr Kelsie Donnelly, took the necessary steps to ensure that nothing was left to chance. Until, …

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