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Czech, Slovak and Polish Structuralist Traditions in the Translation Studies Paradigm Today

Conference focus
The conference will discuss theoretical and methodological issues of Czech, Slovak and Polish structuralisms, confronting them with the current state-of-the-art in mainstream translation studies, and vice versa. Western paradigmatic turns in TS do not make a perfect fit here, since the traditions have been rather different. East European structuralisms seem to have been by-passed for various reasons, while recent international theoretical and methodological quests, more or less following the pattern of the so-called turns in humanities, have been arriving at issues reminiscent of the East European tradition. On the other hand, our object of study may have become more elusive. The conference is intended as an impetus to international dialogue.

Invited speakers
Elzbieta Tabakowska (Jagiellonian University of Kraków)
José Lambert (Catholic University of Leuven)

Conference webpage
http://structuralism.prague.ff.cuni.cz