CfP | LSC Conference 2025 | Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces

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From 23-25 April 2025, we will be hosting an international conference in Regensburg marking the conclusion of the first phase of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World, inaugurated in 2019, and the beginning of its second funding period, running to 2028. The conference seeks to take stock of the work done so far within the ScienceCampus while giving an impulse to its development over the next four years.

Combining area studies-focused research in the social sciences, cultural studies, media studies, and literary studies, the conference Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations seeks to attract a wide range of papers that analyse processes of transfer and translation in polycentric contexts. It focuses on the transatlantic entanglements of the Americas with Western and Southern Europe, and of the Americas with Eastern Europe - broadly defined to include Eastern and East-Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia - from the eighteenth century to the present. Our aim is to promote a multidisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, theoretical frameworks and broader narrativisation of processes of transfer and translation. 

We welcome applications until 31 October 2024. The full call for papers and details of how to apply, can be found here.

Fields of interest may include:

• Creative potential and hierarchies of translations and transfer in the circulation of knowledge(s);
• Hegemonic discourses and contestation in the ordering and re-ordering of international relations and international law;
• Processes of transfer and translation of legal norms and legal knowledge in a polycentric world;
• Textual, visual, and auditive narrativization of transfer and translation in media;
• Comparative international law and recent debates on the regionalization of international law that attempt to navigate the polycentric world order;
• Translation processes and struggle in phases of political and social transition, e.g. lawmaking, peace-making, memory(-making);
• (Transregional) transfer of knowledge and aesthetics in contestatory feminist, antiracist, and ecological projects;
• Multi- and interdisciplinary transfer of theories of translation.

Conference Organizing Committee: Anne Brüske, Jochen Mecke, Cindy Wittke
Conference Scientific Committee: Anne Brüske, Rike Krämer-Hoppe, Jochen Mecke, Dagmar Schmelzer, Cindy Wittke