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January 14, 2006
Call for papers: Translating Islam, Cultures, Histories and the Presentist
Challenge, Duke University-University of North Carolina Graduate Student
Conference on Islamic Studies, April 14, 2006
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CFP: "Translating Islam: Cultures, Histories and the Presentist Challenge"
3rd Duke-UNC Graduate Student Conference on Islamic Studies
Location: North Carolina, United States
Conference Date: 2006-04-14
Date Submitted: 2006-01-11
Announcement ID: 149256
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the question of
translation across the humanities and in the social sciences. The
linguistic and cultural turn that has shaped the modern formation of
interpretive studies currently pushes toward further engagement with
issues of translation, namely how concepts, ideas and practices are
related to a more complex substrate in culture. In a more radical way, the
theoretical frameworks derived from post-structuralism and post-colonial
studies equate the ideal of translatability with that of universality.The
aim of this conference is to explore ways in which the issue of
translation figures in theories, methodologies, ethnographic and
historiographic dimensions of the study of Islam and Muslim societies. We
invite paper as well as panel proposals that deal with the following
questions, which are not exhaustive:
* How do Islamicate cultural and intellectual discourses engage in
translation both within and between traditions?
* How does the analytic of translation shape comparative studies on
Islam?
* What role does translation play in the exegesis, reception and
transmission f Islamic textual archives?
*What kind of translation strategies are embedded in contemporary
discourses on Islam?
Suggested topics include:
* translation in the early centuries of Islam
* translating Islamic normativities across time and space
* translating the Qur'an in content and form
* translation in Western scholarship on Islam
* Muslim modernism and the translation of Enlightenment concepts
* translation and Muslim networks
* theories of translation in Sufism
* ethics, law and politics in translation
The conference will proceed in an interactive workshop format. We expect
that those invited to present papers will remain for the duration of the
conference in order to engage the work of other participants.
Proceedings will be held on the Duke University campus in Durham, NC.
To apply, please send 1) a proposal up to five-hundred words 2) a paper
title and 3) a CV to Cate Mills (cate.mills@duke.edu).
The deadline for submissions is February 15th 2006.
Cate Mills
Email: cate.mills@duke.edu
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