Global South Intersemiotic Research Project
Neocolonialism and the Global South:
Multidisciplinary perspectives on meaning and matter
University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 26 November 2015
Programme
9:00 – 10:30
A word of welcome
Keynote lecture (1 h): Stefan Baumgarten
Translation Studies and Critical Theory
COFFEE
11:00 -12:00
Presentations
Bert Olivier
Crises in the Global “Network Society”
David Pittaway
Orphic Offerings to a Neoliberal World gone Mad
12:00 – 13:30
LUNCH
13:00 – 15:00
Monwabisi Ralarala
Interpreting absence: Intersemiotic translation processes in the administration of justice in power-imbalanced linguistic contexts
Caroline Mangerel
Ethics and collaborative translation in the neocolony
Kobus Marais
Translating the secondness of firstness in the global south
TEA
15:30 – late
Roundtable on translation, academia, and public-private profligate practices (1h30)