Invitation to Conference "Situated in Translation: Global Media and Cultural Practices" / Hamburg / May 18-20, 2017

23 March 2017, by Johanna Heinemeier

The members of the organisational committee warmly invite you to the annual conference of the research group Translating and Framing. Practices of Medial Transformations.
The conference titled "Situated in Translation: Global Media and Cultural Practices" takes place from 18.-20.5.2017 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.

The international conference brings together scholars and practitioners working in philosophy, media, and performance and cultural studies whose interventions focus on dynamic processes of cultural transformation in a global context. Taking as our starting point the notion that culture is produced in an ongoing, reciprocal process of framing and translation, we have specifically invited contributions that broaden existing concepts of framing and translating, for instance, by focusing on such diverse phenomena as inter-medial and cross-cultural translations and hybridizations. Pushing beyond traditional notions of media production and reception, we are asking instead in what ways are media not only always already framed and translated expressions of specific, mostly Western cultures, but what other, non-Western and frequently unseen and unheard ways of framing and translating are there?

With contributions from William Uricchio, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Kader Attia, Elisabeth El Refaie, Birgit Weyhe, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Deniz Göktürk, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Julia Lajta-Novak, Martin Schäfer, Ramsay Burt, the Decolonizing Design Group, Jannis Androutsopoulos and Jessica Weidenhöffer.

For further information, please visit the website of the research group "Übersetzen und Rahmen. Praktiken medialer Transformationen".

The event is open to the public and free of charge, with advance registration requested via:
fuer.bw"AT"uni-hamburg.de .

We look forward to meeting you in Hamburg in May!

With kind regards in the name of the organization team
Astrid Böger, Michaela Ott, Thomas Weber

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