The IATIS :“Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Organization: IATIS
The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re) Creation” for its 8th?International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”
Western hegemony has always manipulated the imagination of the future in order to maintain global power. Such speculative control has particularly authorized the west’s monopolistic militarization of an epistemic narrative whose translation infringes collective future scenarios and environmental transformations for the Global South communities. The de facto power of the west’s insulating narrative is networked through biased legacy media platforms that visibly condone the despoliation and violent policies of corporate industries in the Global South. Such monolithic advocacy of ecological exploitation and human insecurity has spurred worldwide anxieties for articulating a speculative future to suspend the west’s translation of irresponsible future imaginaries that inconsiderately normalize human isolation and insecurity, linear economy, environmental degradation, and social conflict in the Global South.
This panel addresses the current concerns with the west’s neo-colonial technocentric mindset that homogenizes cognitive bias and translation opacity to thwart the non-westerners’ recognition of human and non-human equity and arbitrate their limited accessibility to the future. In this regard, the panel highlights the urgent calls for demilitarized technologies of translation and narration to communicate an accessible future of environmental consciousness, equitable sustainability, and biodiversity
Topics of interest also include, but are not limited to:
· Extractive industry and ecological violence and their counter translation in the speculative responses of the Global South
o Speculative translation of ecological modernity in the Global South
o Speculative translation of gender equality in the Global South
o Biodiversity imaginary and its translation in the Global South
o Intercultural communication of Panglossian narratives on the Global South
o Translations of Feminist political ecology in the Global South
o Subaltern ecology and speculative activism in the literature of the Global South
o Ecofeminism and translation in the speculative fiction of the Global South
o Pedagogy of hope and translation of degrowth in the science fiction from the Global South
o Translation, labor in/justice, and the speculative narratives from the Global South
o Intercultural communication of post-now imaginaries of sustainable technologies on the Global South
o Intercultural communication of new equitable and sustainable futures of labor in the literature of the Global South
Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words (including presentation title); 100-word mini-biography, complete contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, and contact telephone number. ACCEPTS UNDERGRADUATE SUBMISSION.
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2025.
Submissions will only be accepted through IATIS Conference website:
https://easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=8iatis
Please send all inquiries to:
Majda R. Atieh , m.atieh@squ.edu.om , Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
https://www.iatis.org/index.php/8th-conference-oman-2025
Majda Atieh
