Monthly Archives: September 2015

University of Kent announces Paris lecture series in conjunction with partner universities

The University of Kent, Paris, the University of London Institute in Paris and the American University of Paris are pleased to announce the 2015-2016 Paris Seminar Series:

Politics of Translation – Translation of Cultures

The terrain and processes of translation are changing faster than ever before. New technologies, greater competition and connection between spaces of editorial decision, shifting interfaces between places of textual production: the range of forces at play in the geopolitics of translation is vast and complex, implicating ever more zones and expressions of culture. This seminar series will explore specific instances of transformation and broader trends across this terrain, inviting speakers and their audiences to consider some of the following questions:

  • How do the modalities of funding and distribution of translations shape the production of culture?
  • How are the formal characteristics of contemporary cultural artefacts – texts, audio-visual production, exhibitions – shaped by questions of translatability?
  • What are the spaces of translation today, and how do they function?
  • What are the temporalities of translations and how has that changed?
  • What in translation is irreducible to a politics of translation?
  • Is translation excessive?
  • What is the vitality of translation?

Papers will be delivered in English. The autumn term sessions will be held at the University of London institute in Paris, 9-11 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris; the spring sessions will be held at The American University in Paris and University of Kent in Paris (Reid Hall). They will take place on Thursdays at 5.30pm. They are open to the public, if you have any questions about access, please write to anna-louise.milne@ulip.lon.ac.uk.

Autumn term dates are available here.

25th – 27th SEPTEMBER 2015 World Writer’s Festival will take place at our Paris Centre

WORLD WRITERS’ FESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 25 – 27, 2015

Presented by Columbia University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

For the full program: www.festivaldesecrivainsdumonde.fr

Whether you’re a lover of poetry, the short story, the literary novel, non-fiction, or theater, there is something for everyone at the third annual World Writers’ Festival! The writers presenting at the Festival this year come from the four corners of the world: fifteen different countries to be exact. In multiple ways, they will be bearing witness to the global human condition today.

Participating writers include: Suleyman Al Bassam, Christine Angot, Carmen Boullosa, A.S. Byatt, Javier Cercas, Michel Faber, Aleksandar Hemon, Sayed Kashua, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Les Murray, Florence Noiville, Edna O’Brien, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Gary Shteyngart, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Samar Yazbek.

Kent shortlisted for University of the Year 2015

The Times Higher Education’s University of the Year Award, which is open to all higher education institutions in the UK, celebrates exceptional performance in the past academic year and in particular those ‘bold, imaginative and innovative initiatives that have advanced an institution’s reputation’.

This nomination comes towards the end of Kent’s golden jubilee year and during one of the most successful periods in its history – one that has been characterised by its ability to combine excellence in research and teaching, whilst developing the collegiate environment for which it has long held reputation.

The winners will be announced on 26 November 2015.