Centre for Translation Studies

International Conference
February 5-6, 2026
Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann

This conference is dedicated to exploring the poetics and politics of literary texts that employ multi- and translingual strategies to challenge monolingual norms. Post-monolingual literatures activate literary multi- and translingualism to express the experiences of subjects who live in more than one language, who resist institutionalized monolingual paradigms, and who create new links between languages to foster affective forms of community-building beyond the nation. The conference asks how this corpus of texts, by embracing linguistic exchange, also models new concepts of language. Post-monolingual literatures dismantle notions of language as a singular, countable, and separable entity, configuring it instead as a fluid, relational, embodied, and pluralized practice. Together, these works make a significant contribution to the search for more hospitable collectivities and to the assertion of pluralized civic and literary forms of participation. While focusing on the aesthetics of languaging in literatures across Europe, the conference also addresses the role of the book market in regulating language.

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5-6/03/2026, Haus der Universität (BSR 2) 

Re-Membering Translation: How Memory Studies Can Invigorate Translation Studies 

International Conference

Organisation: Dr. Yvonne Liebermann & Dr. Hannah Pardey (HHU) 

The aim of this international conference is to engage critically with the nexus between Memory Studies and Translation Studies and to explore how recent concepts in Memory Studies can strengthen theories and practices of translation. Opening up the field of Translation Studies and rethinking it with concepts in Memory Studies not only fosters new connections across the two fields but also bears the potential to ‘re-member’ Translation Studies so as to attune it to the globalized and digitized twenty-first century.
Bringing together scholars from Memory Studies and Translation Studies, the conference engages in questions such as: Should we shift our attention away from transfers between source and target languages and rather investigate translation’s potential to reimagine cultures? Can translation be detached from its dual (source and target) context, and how would this modify concepts of translation more generally? What are the merits of ‘translating’ notions such as ‘latent memory’, ‘cosmopolitan memory’, ‘multidirectional memory’ or ‘globital memory’ to a Translation Studies context? Can the field of Memory Studies transform the global book market, including the imbalance of languages, in ways that are comparable to its impact on museum cultures?

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18:00 - 20:00 STADTFENSTER (Zentralbibliothek, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1)

Der Arbeitskreis Düsseldorf Postkolonial veranstaltet am 10.9. 18-20 Uhr einen Diskussionsabend mit Input und Podium zum Umgang mit dem „Kolonialkriegerdenkmal" am Frankenplatz.

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Wir gratulieren Tasun Tidorchibe herzlich zur erfolgreichen Verteidigung seiner Dissertation "Revisiting formalism from a West African perspective: Konkomba folktales across generations and cultural contexts". Sein Projekt beschäftigt sich aus afrozentrischer Perspektive mit Form-​Inhalts-Beziehungen in (weitgehend westlichen) Strömungen des Formalismus am Beispiel populärer Erzählungen (folktales) der Konkomba in Nordghana. Über Translating Minor Forms macht sein Projekt zudem einen Korpus der Erzählungen, deren Übersetzungen, und weiteren Inhalten zugänglich. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.