Fw: H-ASIA: CONF Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, Taipei May 28-29, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, Taipei
May 28-29, 2011

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Conference: Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, Taipei, May
> 28-29, 2011
> *************************************************************************
> From: Alexander Huang <acyhuang05@gmail.com>
>
> Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, International Conference
> National Taiwan University, May 28-29, 2011
>
> http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ntuihs/en/index.htm
>
> Features speakers and participants include Michel Hockx (SOAS, London),
> Zhang Longxi (City University of Hong Kong), Wilt Idema (Harvard), Shigeru
> Miyagawa (MIT), Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (UT Austin), Brett de Bary
> (Cornell), Kathy Foley (UCSC), Nicholas Kaldis (SUNY Binghamton), and
> others.
>
> Cultural translation has come to shape the world we live in. Cultural
> translation encompasses a broad range of cultural and artistic activities
> taking place in the contact zones between different historical moments of
> the same culture, between national spaces, or between genres and forms of
> expression including textual and visual cultures. How do ideas and genres
> migrate across these boundaries? What driving forces are at work behind
> the
> formation of the culture of translation and the translation of cultures?
> This interdisciplinary conference will bring together specialists of East
> Asian humanities to explore the issues of identity formation, localization
> and globalization, and transnational cultural flows in both pre-modern and
> postmodern times.
>
> Free and open to the public.
>
> Venue: New Agricultural Chemistry Building, Fifth Floor, Conference Room
> IV,
> National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
>
> Campus Map and Conference program available on the conference website.
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