[hre-asiapacific] Translation and the Production of Knowledge in Southeast Asia

Dear all,

Translation and the Production of Knowledge in Southeast Asia
Cornell University
Southeast Asia Program
Seventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium

15-17 April, 2005
The Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia
640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850

Keynote Address by Vicente L. Rafael, University of Washington

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Cornell Southeast Asia Program invites graduate students working
across the disciplines to submit papers that explore multiple theories
and practices of translation and their relationship to the production of
knowledge in and of Southeast Asian contexts. From the earliest history
of the region until the present, discourses of the individual and the
cosmos, of gender, of the ethical, the social, and the political, have
emerged through processes of translation. Of particular interest is how
translation has been essential to the production of these discourses in
the pre-modern period and how they have influenced, and been influenced
by, colonial and (post-) modern forms of knowledge. Participants will
collectively consider translation as a contested or negotiated site of
textual or social practice and the degree to which the term is a useful
critical idiom for Southeast Asian Studies. Analyses will ideally entail
a series of interdisciplinary explorations drawing from a wide variety
of sources ranging from religious and literary texts to art and
architecture and ethnographic studies of social and cultural practices
and institutions. Papers are invited to discuss the relationship between
translation and the production of knowledge in light of the following
panel sub-themes:

I. The Production and Institutionalization of Expert Knowledge
II. Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Practices of Symbolic Consumption
III. The Ethics of Translation in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Literatures
IV. Gender and Sexual Difference

We ask that prospective presenters submit a one-page abstract and
curriculum vitae by February 1, 2005 to: DCL33@cornell.edu. Papers
should be in English with a reading time of no more than 20 minutes.
Final papers will be due by April 1st for circulation to symposium
participants. A limited number of modest travel grants are available.



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