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Cultural Translation 11
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December 2009 Programme
Cultural Translation: An InterdisciplinaryConference
Bute Building, Room 1.50, Cardiff University
10.00-11.15Mieke BalKeynote Presentation11.15-11.3015 min break11.30-13.00Sharif Gemie The Veil: A Bridge Between Cultures?Rebecca BeirneDiasporic and Local Representations of Same-Sex Female Desires in Indian,Indian-Canadian, Indian-Scottish andIndian-American cinema’Floriana BernardiFatema Mernissi and cultural translation13.00-14.001 hour lunch14.00-15.00Veronica O’NeilKinship in Walter Benjamin’s Task of the TranslatorRuth J. OwenDeath by Cultural Translation15.00-15.1010 min break15.10-16.10Ariela Grosz-RopheIntellectuals as Culture TransmittersCaterina SinibaldiDangerous comic strips16.10-16.2010 min break16.20-17.20Paul BowmanFists of confusion: Bruce Lee andMonolingual Cultural TranslationDavid HuddartEmblems of cultural translation17.20-17.2010 min breakSarah MaitlandFirst do no harm: Power, agency and1
School of Journalism, Media and CulturalStudies
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Race, Representation and Cultural Identity ResearchGroup
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Cultural Translation 11
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December 2009 Programme17.30-18.30cultural translation in the post-colonialcontextAlexis Nuselovici,Glenn Davidson,Wyn
Mason The moiré effect2
Cultural Translation 11
th
December 2009 Programme11.30-13.00Sharif Gemie The Veil: A Bridge Between Cultures?Rebecca BeirneDiasporic and Local Representations of Same-Sex Female Desires in Indian, Indian-Canadian, Indian-Scottish and Indian-American cinema’Floriana BernardiFatema Mernissi and cultural translation
13.00-14.001 hour lunch
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The ‘Veil’: a Bridge Between Cultures?
Western interest and concern about Muslim veiling practices seemsinexhaustible. In the western media, the veil has become a common cliché: aninstantly recognizable signifier for themes such as exclusion, oppression,reactionary thinking and the separation of cultures. Such points have a certainvalidity, but they are almost exclusively based on outsiders’ perspectives.While accepting that compulsory veiling constitutes an unacceptablebreach of human rights, this paper will explore other dimensions of veiling inwestern and Muslim societies. It will discuss the Muslim veil as fashionstatement, as ‘passport’ between different worlds, and as symbol of a new,globalized, trans-national Islam. Some specific examples will be drawn fromFrench experience, where the presence of veil-wearing women has become acontentious and politicized issue, and from Iranian society, where the varietiesand nuances of veil-wearing are more complex than often supposed. The paperwill conclude by suggesting a post-Orientalist perspective on this issue.
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Diasporic and Local Representations of Same-Sex Female Desiresin Indian, Indian-Canadian, Indian-Scottish and Indian-Americancinema
This paper examines the similarities and differences in the depiction of same-sex female desire in films from both Indian and Indian diasporic contexts. Itwill seek to determine what level of cultural translation is being undertaken inthe representation of both female same-sex desire and Indian cultural identity insix films:
Fire
(India/Canada, Deepa Metha: 1996),
Chutney Popcorn
(USA, NishaGanatra: 1999),
Girlfriend
(India, Karan Razdan: 2004),
The Journey
(India, Ligy J.Pullappally: 2004),
Nina’s Heavenly Delights
(UK, Pratibha Parmar: 2006) and
The World Unseen
(UK/South Africa, Shamim Sarif: 2007); exploring the roledirectorial nationality and setting play in translating how lesbian desire isrepresented across cultural contexts. When the earliest of these films,
Fire
, was3
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