The Translation Zone: South Asian

Going by a slightly more expansive definition, this research workshop focuses on translation work including languages from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Maldives. Our meetings are an opportunity to discuss ongoing translation work which the members are involved in, and to grapple with the technical-political issues which accompany such work; this is why the name of the workshop is borrowed from influential translation theorist Emily Apter’s eponymous 2006 book. With time, we hope to autonomously publish our work in the form of a South Asian writing primer, lacking which we might consider sending proposals to established journals which invite work in translation.