1st East & West Conference on Translation Studies – Translation History Matters

Date: 26-27 September 2013
Organisation: ULICES, FLUL (Portugal), SYSU (China)
Venue: Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai Campus, China

This conference aims to provide a biannual forum for East & West dialogue on Translation Studies.  This inaugural edition will be dedicated to “Translation History Matters” and welcomes contributions addressing issues related (though not circumscribed) to translation history, historiography and metahistoriography.  Centred on translation understood as an intentional phenomenon of human and mostly intercultural communication, this conference aims to focus on the role played by translation in Eastern and Western cultural practices and encounters through history as well as on the role of history to understand both translation and translation studies.  By bringing together Eastern and Western views on a multitude of translation history matters, this conference aims to stress why, how and for which purposes translation history matters.
More information here and here.