[csaa-forum] Symposium Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World, 8-9 December 2016, University of New South Wales, Sydney

[Laetitia Nanquette]

Symposium Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World
School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
8-9 December 2016
Organizers: Dr Michelle Langford and Dr Laetitia Nanquette
For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchange of cultures. However, the contemporary focus on its politics tends to obfuscate how Iran continues to contribute to the global circulation of ideas and cultural products. The success of Iranian cinema globally is a key example reminding us of the connectedness of Iranian culture to the world. This symposium will study how Iranian local/global culture dynamically exchanges with the world.

Thursday 8 December, 4.00-5.30pm

Keynote Lecture: "Translating Iran: Imitation, Adaptation, and Appropriation"

Amy Motlagh (The American University in Cairo) is an Associate Professor and currently the director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is a trained Persianist with long-standing research interests in gender, law and the cultural production of the Middle East.

To look at the history of practices of “translation” (including conventional forms of translation as well as adaptations, imitations, and pseudo-translations) between Iran and the West is to discover unexpected sympathies and filiations. Some of these translations have been enabled at the institutional level by fellowship and exchange programs, while others have been undertaken without such facilitation, but both types open up space for reexamination of questions related to authenticity and originality. Looking at several such acts of translation as case studies, this paper considers the ethics and aesthetics of cultural transfer and exchange in a world where in spite of Iran’s vilification in popular media, its literature has nonetheless been crucial to modern conceptions of self in the West
Enquiries and free registration: worlding.iran at unsw.edu<mailto:worlding.iran at unsw.edu>
More details about the symposium as well as the full program of the symposium can be found here: https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/call-for-papers-worlding-iran-contemporary-iranian-culture-and-the-world/
This event is supported by UNSW International Distinguished Visitor Scheme and a School of Arts and Media Research Grant


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