Call for Papers

Call for papers:

As conspicuous forms of culture planning, anthologies and collections are well-known gateways for the introduction of foreign literary and non-literary texts and subjects to a target culture and, as such, privileged areas of research for both Translation and Reception Studies.

This conference will focus on the status of collections and anthologies as spaces for intercultural encounters, forms of creative rewriting, as domestic offers of a partial canon for a given area of a foreign culture, be it an author, nation, literary genre, scientific domain, or other. Such a promising and seldom researched area opens up several paths to further research both in terms of the external and internal history of translation, including case-studies and theoretical and methodological proposals.

This conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of differing motivations, goals, functions and effects of anthologies and collections in different cultures, times, and spaces.

Papers are welcome on the following topics, among others:

+Goals, functions and effects of anthologies and collections in different cultures, times, and spaces;

+Role of collections and anthologies in canonization processes;
+Intercultural voyages of anthologies and collections;
+Textual and contextual profiling of anthologies and collections;
+Processes and criteria of anthologisation;
+Mapping anthologies and collections;
+Anthologies and collections as spaces for the dialogue of foreign and domestic production;
+Comparative anthology studies;
+The reception of anthologies and collections;
+The senders and addressees of anthologies and collections.

Abstracts

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to

anthologies.collections.2010@gmail.com

by 30 October 2009.

Submissions should include:
the abstract in English (500 words);
your name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation;
a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning main research interests, projects and selected publications.
The Scientific Committee will return their decision by 15 December 2009.

The conference languages are Portuguese, English, French, Spanish