The T-RADEX International Conference will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus from 31 October to 2 November 2024. The conference, which is organised by ARENAS partner University of Cyprus, addresses Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication: Radical and Extremist Narratives.
The conference aims to bring together scholars working on any form of radical, extreme or extremist narratives from a translational, cross-cultural, multilingual and intercultural perspective. Participants are invited to consider the role of translation in reproducing, manipulating, and spreading such discourses or to examine how extreme or radical narratives unfold in cross-cultural and/ or intercultural communication.
T-RADEX aims to shed light on any form of extremist discourse / extreme or radical narrative that goes beyond what the majority considers extreme/extremist or radical. Such narratives can be found in both far-right and far-left discourse, and include radicalisation discourse, and social and/or exclusion narratives based on sexual orientation and gender.
Keynote speakers include:
Mona Baker, Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Health Education (SHE), University of Oslo. Her research interests lie in translation and conflict, activist translation, solidarity movements, narrative theory, and corpus-based conceptual analysis.
Andreas Musolff, Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). His research interests focus on the study of public discourse, the pragmatics of figurative language and intercultural communication.
Simo K. Määttä is an Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki. His research is inspired by critical discourse analysis, critical sociolinguistics, and sociological translation studies, with a focus on the issues of language and power, language and identity, and the representation and interpretation of linguistic variation. His specific research topics include language ideologies and the politics of language in relation to translation and interpreting, hate speech, legal and community interpreting, and the theory of discourse and ideology.
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