[Liuhum] COMPASS PROGRAMME FALL 2023

[Polina Ignatova]

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to COMPASS seminar series of the autumn term 2023. Please share!

Best wishes,
Polina

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Dr Polina Ignatova
Postdoc | IKOS Tema Q / COMPASS
Executive Editor | Culture Unbound
Linköping University
Environmental History Series Editor | The Trivent

Website: medievalke.wordpress.com
Follow me on Twitter: @paulineignatova
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От: Per-Anders Forstorp <per-anders.forstorp at liu.se>
Отправлено: 16 октября 2023 г. 12:04
Кому: Lars Liljegren <lars.liljegren at liu.se>; Malin Wieslander <malin.wieslander at liu.se>
Тема: COMPASS PROGRAMME FALL 2023


COMPASS PROGRAMME FALL 2023


The COMPASS seminars are organised in collaboration with the various research environments at the Department of Culture and Society.


Taboo Words and Self-censorship:

Has Social Sensitivity Gone Too Far, or Are We Blind to Our Own Complicity?

Lars Liljegren



Date and time: October 26, 13.15-15.00

Venue: Tvärsnittet (KH557, Kopparhammaren 7, Campus Norrköping).



Whereas we claim to live in an enlightened era, where state censorship of provocative ideas or words are often regarded as a thing of the past in Sweden, there are signs that the freedoms of speech once fought for and won may be gradually lost again. Interestingly, however, is that what were, traditionally, laws enforced by the state on its citizens have now become something informally imposed upon citizens by other citizens. Are we living in a so-called “cancel culture?” Some accuse those behind this seeming backswing of being too “woke”, while those accused argue that those in an empowered position, such as white Europeans, men, teachers etc., must be much more careful about the way they speak of, and address, those in any kind of socially weaker position.

Translation is one professional field (of many) where having a social sensitivity is key to success. Indeed, a failure to understand what words are allowed in the culture for which one translates has historically led to fines, prison or worse. Taking my own research on translation and /self-/censorship as a point of departure, I will first present a brief overview of what has often been considered taboo, and the effects this has had on the translator’s choices. I will then present some relatively recent events, such as how the 2020 translator into Swedish dealt with the N-word in Huckleberry Finn, the debate on the 2005 introduction of the ice cream “Nogger Black”, the recent burnings of the Koran, the concept of safe spaces at universities, the power of social media in cancel culture, and so on.

The presentation will then open up for a discussion on the effects of self-censorship on society and on our view of history.


Lars Liljegren is associate professor and head of English in the Division of Language, Culture and Interaction at IKOS.


Recommended reading: 'You are Cancelled: Virtual Collective Consciousness and the Emergence of Cancel Culture as Ideological Purging' by Joseph Ching Velasco (Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies of Humanities, Vol. 12 (5), 2020, pp. 5-7





Tystnadskultur - orsaker, konsekvenser och förändringsmöjligheter

Malin Wieslander


Date and time: December 7 december, 13.15-15

Venue: Täppan, Campus Norrköping, TPM51.


abstract and reading (tba)

This seminar will be held in Swedish.





Malin Wieslander, is associate professor and docent at the Department of Behavioursla Sciences and Learning, LiU.




The seminars are open for all and are usually held in English. For links to Zoom, please contact Per-Anders Forstorp or Polina Ignatova.


Welcome!



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