THE FACULTY OF ARTS AT MATEJ BEL UNIVERSITY
BANSKÁ BYSTRICA
THE STATE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY IN BANSKÁ BYSTRICA
AND THE FILOLÓG CIVIC ASSOCIATION
cordially invite you to
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING 12
an international academic conference entitled
Hybridity and Creolization in Translation and Translation Studies
The plenary speech will be given by Prof. Anthony Pym
Dear colleagues and friends,
On 6 April 2016 the MBU Faculty of Arts is hosting the twelfth biannual international
academic conference TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING in cooperation with the State
Scientific Library in Banská Bystrica and the Filológ Civic Association.
The binding registration form, abstract form, detailed information and all instructions are
available on the following website: www.konferenciaPaT.ff.umb.sk
Conference theme
The topics of hybridization and creolization in the translation process and intercultural
communication are certainly not new. In its very nature, translation is the most typical hybrid
and hybridizing phenomenon, reflected even in the various ways it is approached. However,
the need for a more consistent approach due to increasingly strong and expansive cultural
overlap, accompanied and supported by mass media technology, is currently a hot topic.
Hybridization as a quality and hybridism as a phenomenon, hybridisms as results of
hybridizations, hybridization as a process. Clashes of cultures, systems, languages, texts,
genres and styles, establishment of new communication forms and the need for efforts to
achieve balance.
In Popovič’s terminology creolization represents harmony; it settles the tension
between what is different and what is ours, between exotization and naturalization, between
translation methods which substitute the original and those which adhere to it.
What is the relationship between hybridity and creolization? Is creolization usually the
best possible translation strategy? What forms of hybridity can be observed in source and
target communication? What strategies and solutions should we advise translators to use when
working with hybrid texts? This wide topic encourages an interdisciplinary approach and
provides an opportunity to think about genre hybridity, community interpreting, interlanguage contaminations and interferences or style overlaps, pointing to the need to evaluate
different viewpoints on the importance of hybridity and creolization in the context of specific
cases.
Organizational details
Conference venue: State Scientific Library, Lazovná 9, Banská Bystrica
Presentation length: 20 minutes + 10 minute discussion
Official languages: Slovak, Czech, English, German, Russian
The presentations will be interpreted simultaneously.
Conference fee: We would kindly ask you to transfer the conference fee of €80 (€40 for
doctoral students) to the following account:
Account number:
Include the name of the participant in the notice.
Variable symbol:
103371
SWIFT code: SPSRSKBA
Specific symbol:
0308
IBAN code: SK75 8180 0000 0070 0009 5590
The conference fee covers the conference programme, lunch, refreshments during the breaks
and the expenses for our plenary speaker’s visit.
Important deadlines:
Registration and abstract submission:
15 February 2016
Conference fee payment:
7 March 2016
Electronic submission of your paper:
15 May 2016
Please e-mail your paper to the following address: [email protected]. The
programme with the selected papers will be indexed in the database Web of Science. All other
papers will be published in the journal New Philological Revue, Translation Criticism or
Motus in Verbo.
Academic committee:
prof. PhDr. Edita Grómová, CSc.
prof. PhDr. Mária Kusá, CSc.
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Biloveský, PhD.
doc. PhDr. Zuzana Bohušová, PhD.
PhDr. Zuzana Jettmarová, M.Sc. PhD.
PhDr. Anita Huťková, PhD.
Organizational team:
PhDr. Martin Djovčoš, PhD.
PhDr. Ivan Šuša, PhD.
PhDr. Miroslava Melicherčíková
PhDr. Ladislav György, PhD.
PaedDr. Eva Čulenová, PhD.
PhDr. Martin Kubuš, PhD.
Mgr. Zuzana Angelovičová
PhDr. Ing. Miroslava Bajusová
Mgr. Barbora Vinczeová
Mgr. Lucia Čendulová
Mgr. Marianna Bachledová
We are looking forward to your attendance!