CFP: Some Holmes and Popovič in all of us?

The Low Countries and the Nitra Schools in the 21st century

The Nitra and the Low Countries Schools contributed greatly to the formation of the discipline of Translation Studies in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Both James Holmes and Anton Popovič had an important impact on the initial decades of Translation Studies as it is known today. Histories of the discipline often refer to the Low Countries and the Nitra Schools, of which these scholars are important symbols, but they are certainly not the only ones; scholars such as Miko, Vilikovský, Ďurišin, Lefevere, van den Broeck, and Lambert also figure among them.

Without wishing to deny their importance, it is not the aim of the conference to look back on and recall those decades, but rather to focus on and trace the continuing impact of the lines of thinking developed in these two schools, and connect them in a prospective way to further developments in Translation Studies. Contemporary research shows traces of the innovative thinking of Holmes, Popovič and their colleagues in the Low Countries and Nitra both conceptually and methodologically. Can we discuss such issues as mapping and remapping, naming and renaming, sociological and communicative approaches without bearing these influences in mind?

Again, we do not wish to see this conference as a trip down memory lane to the roots of these Schools in the 70s, but as an opportunity to show to what extent value has been added to the lines of thinking in contemporary research stemming from the Low Countries and Nitra.

Keynote speakers:
Ton Naaijkens (Utrecht University)
Zuzana Jettmarová (Charles University, Prague)
Katarína Bednárová (Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra)
José Lambert (KU Leuven & UFSC)

Important dates:
Abstract submission by 30 April 2015
Notification of acceptance by 15 May 2015
Registration and Payment by 15 June 2015 (to be paid after the acceptance of your abstract)

For all information please visit the conference website at [url=http://www.ktr.ff.ukf.sk/conference/]http://www.ktr.ff.ukf.sk/conference/[/url]