Itamar Even-Zohar

Papers Presented to National and International Conferences

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2019

“Soluciones cuestionables o maladaptación”. Conferência de Abertura, III Encontro Internacional da Rede Galabra: Responsabilidade e Investigação em Ciências da Cultura, USC, Corunha-Compostela, 24.1.2019.

2018

“La competicion intercultural sobre recursos vía concursos para capitales

Simbólicos”. Paper presented to the Workshop Identitatearen eraldaketa euskal literatura garaikidean, Universidad de País Vasco, Bilbao, 26.6.2018.

2018

“La invención y planificación de culturas”. Paper presented to the Workshop Identitatearen eraldaketa euskal literatura garaikidean, Universidad de País Vasco, Bilbao, 27.6.2018.

2017

“Le patrimoine comme enflammeur de conflits”. Discours prononcé au Colloque Géopolitique, patrimoine et conflits, Université Jean Monnet, Saint Étienne, 11 et 12 décembre 2017.

2017

“Who profits from legacy? / Qui profite du patrimoine ?” Paper delivered at the first ProPeace EU Project workshop, Wageningen, January 16–20, 2017.

2016

“Intercultural competition over resources via contests for symbolic capitals.” Paper delivered at the Lund symposium “The Making of Them and Us,” The Lund School of Cultural Semiotics & the Lund University Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, December 7-8, 2016.

2015

¿El fin de la literatura?” Ponencia presentada al simposio "Estudos Literarios e Campo Cultural Galego”, en honor de Antón Figueroa Lorenzana, Santiago de Compostela, 2-3 de septiembre 2015.

2014

Comments, Colloquium for the discussion of the project “Discursos, imagens e práticas culturais sobre Santiago de Compostela como meta dos caminhos de Santiago”. Grupo GALABRA, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, June 23–25 2014.

2014

Opening Note. International Conference “Agents of Translation and the Tasks of the Translator”. June 19–20 2014. Venue: University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

2013

“Ideational labor revisited.” International Workshop “Ideational and Imaging Labour: Power and Collective Entities,” Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, 2-3 October.

2012

El mercado de identidades colectivas.” Colloquium: Lengua, cultura e identidad en la era global, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 13 & 16 July..

2011

El mercado de identidades colectivas y el trabajo patrimonial”. Workshop: Fabricação e socialização de ideias num sistema cultural emergente durante um período de mudança política, Galiza 1968-1982, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 24-26 November.

2010

“The Market of Identities”. The second Ibn Battuta symposium on Cultural Heritage and Identity Politics, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, 11 October 2010.

2010

“Verbal Work and the Creation of Resources in the Middle Ages.” International Workshop “Polysystem theory and beyond,” Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 4-5 October 2010.

2008

“‘From Left to Right’ or ‘Left and Right’?”. Translation, History and Culture: A Colloquium in tribute to Saliha Paker, 29 April 2008 Boğaziçi University.

2008

“‘From Left to Right’ or ‘Left and Right’?” Colloquium in Honor of Gideon Toury, Tel Aviv University, March 27, 2008.

2007

“The Complexity of Culture.” International conference "Cultural variety in Europe: policy and practice". Amsterdam, November 23, 2007.

2007

“Heterogeneity, Complexity and Intercultural Relations.” International Workshop on Language, Culture, and Translation. Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 19-21 February 2007.

2006

“Translation Programs, Speech Recognition, and Translation Options.” The 1st Athens International Conference on Translation and Interpretation: Translation: Between Art and Social Science. Athens, 13-14 October 2006.

2005

“Translation Seminar Series”. Hong Kong Baptist University, Centre for Translation, August 17, 2005. “Sustainability of Societies and the Efficacy of the Ideational Industries”.

2005

“Microsoft Forum on Speech Recognition under Windows Vista”. Redmond, Microsoft Compound, July 27, 2005. Round Table Discussion on Presented and Proposed Features.

2005

Culture Research Workshop, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut., May 27, 2005. “The Status of Intellectual labor”.

2005

The Reykjavik symposium “Athafnalandið Island”, Reykjavík, Sigurður Nordal Institute and the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce, April 19, 2005. “Intellectual Labor and the Success of Societies”.

2003

Trinity College, Hartford, 10th of March 2003. Annual Lecture: “Idea-Makers, Culture Entrepreneurs, Makers of Life Images, and the Prospects of Success”.

2003

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, June 6th 2003, in the framework of the International Conference “Kulturkontakt und Innovation:der Einfluß der Hyksos auf das Neue Reich,” Vienna, 5-7 June. Plenary paper: “Intellectuals, Contacts, and the Survival and Success of Communities”.

2003

Homenaxe a Xoán Gonzalez-Millán, Memorial Symposium,Graduate Center,City University of New York (CUNY), September 5, 2003: “ Dated Solutions and the Industry of Ideas.”

2001

Workshop “The role of canonicity in the stabilization of societies and the construction of cultural identities.” Departament d'Humanitats & Institut Universitari de Cultura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, October 1-8.

1999

5th International Congress of the International Association of Semiotics Studies (IASS), Dresden, 8 October 1999. Plenary Lecture: “The Making of Repertoire, Survival and Success under Heterogeneity”.

1998

The Tel Aviv-Konstanz International Conference, "Immigration-Migration-Integration". Konstanz University, 15-16 July 1998. Paper: “Migration and Transfer of Culture Repertoires, People, and Goods.”

1997

Seminario "Historia de la literatura". Universidad de Almería, 29 April 1997. Paper: "La literatura como bienes y como herramientas".

1997

International Workshop, "Relocation of Languages and Cultures," Duke University, May 6-11, 1997. Paper: "Culture Planning and Cultural Resistance in the Making and Maintaining of Entities."

1996

International Symposium, "Systems and Fields: Functionalist Approaches to Literature and Cultures." Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 19-20 April 1996. Paper: "Polysystem Theory and Culture Research."

1996

International Conference on Translation Studies "Translation(s) - (Re)Shaping of Literature and Culture." Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, 24-25 October 1996. Paper: "The Making of Culture Repertoire and the Role of Transfer".

1995

ASCA International Conference, "The Practice of Cultural Analysis: A Workshop on Disciplinarity, Amsterdam, June 27-30, 1995. Position paper at the Workshop "The Making of Repertoires and the Organization of Life" under same title.

1995

Seminario, "Reto y Oportunidad de la Literatura Comparada", Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo, Santander, 7-11 August 1995. Paper: "Más allá de la literatura".

1995

Howard Gilman International Colloquium, "The Spanish-Jewish Cultural Interaction", Harvard University, Center for European Studies, 1-3 December 1995. Paper: "An Outsider's Reassessment of the Iberian-Jewish Cultural Interference".

1994

"The Making of National Cultures", Dartmouth College, 22-27 July 1994. Paper: "Culture Planning and the Market: Making and Maintaining Socio-Semiotic Entities".

1994

Seminario "Literatura Galega: ¿Literatura Nacional o Subalterna?" Mondoñedo, Galicia, 3-5 de septiembre 1994. Paper: "Planificación de la Cultura y Mercado".

1993

"La Función de la literatura en la creación de las naciones de Europa" (The Role of Literature in the Making of the Nations of Europe). Lecture read on the occasion of the Santiago de Compostela Anniversary Meetings, "La Europa de la(s) literatura(s)", Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, 5 May 1993.

1992

"Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies," Tel Aviv University, 16-18 December, 1992. Paper: "Closing Remarks."

1990

"Expert Systems, Culture and Semiotics," Groningen University, 12-15 December, 1990. Paper: "The Planning of Culture: Managing Social Semiosis."

1986

"Towards a History of the Canadian Literary Institution", University of Alberta, Edmonton, L'Institut de Recherches en Littérature Comparée, October 16-18, 1986. (Opening) Paper: "Polysystem Theory and Canadian Studies"

1986

"Histoire et Historiographie de la Littérature," Université Laval, Québec, 29 octobre-1 novembre 1986. Paper (Conférence inaugurale): "L'Histoire de la littérature dans le fonctionnalisme dynamique."

1985

"Language and Nation", The University of Haifa, The Reuben Hecht Chair of Zionism, January 23. Paper: "Language Conflict and National Identity"

1985

International Colloquium: The Future of Literary Scholarship, 15-16 February. Bayreuth University, Bayreuth. Paper: "The Quest for Laws and Its Implications for the Future Programme of the Science of Literature"

1985

"Semiotics and Social Theory", Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies (ISISSS), Bloomington, Indiana, 8-9 June. Paper: "Planned vs. Unplanned in Culture"

1985

XI Congress of the International Association of Comparative Literature. Paris, 19-25 August. Workshop: "Polysystem Theory"

1984

International Symposium: Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of the Contacts between Slavic and Jewish Languages. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 1-6. Paper: "The Relations between Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian and Their Role in the Crystallisation Process of Modern Literary and Colloquial Hebrew"

1983

Semiotics and International Scholarship: An International Language of Theory. (NATO Advanced Studies Institute). Estoril, Portugal, 18-30 September. Course: "Translation Theory". Concluding paper: "Model vs. Text Decisions in Text Production"

1983

Colloque International Ejxenbaum, Institut National d'Etudes Slaves, Paris, 9-11 December. Paper: "Les hypothèses d'Ejxenbaum sur le fonctionnement de la littérature"

1981

Workshop on Translation: Scribblevaganza on Theory and Practice of Transcreation. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 2-4 April. Paper: "Translation Theory: The State of the Art"

1981

International Symposium on the Linguistic Study of Impromptu Speech. Åbo Akademi, Åbo (Turku), 20-22 November. Paper: "The Emergence of Speech Organisers in a Renovated Language: The Case of Hebrew VPC's"

1981

Colloque International Tynjanov, Institut National d'Etudes Slaves, Paris, 27-28 November. Paper: "Le fonctionnalisme, surtout dynamique, comme la phase tynjanovienne du formalisme russe"

1980

International Colloquium: "Language, Logic and Discourse Theory". Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University, and The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan & Tel Aviv, 23-26 March. (Synopsis Symposium No 3). Paper: "Void Pragmatic Connectives"

1980

International Colloquium on Translated Literature and Interliterary Communication, Committee for Translation Studies, ICLA, University of Antwerp (UIA), Antwerp, 7-12 April. Paper: "Looking at the State of Translation Theory"

1979

International Symposium: "Narrative Theory and Poetics of Fiction". The Porter Institute for Poetics & Semiotics, Tel Aviv University and The Van Leer Foundation, Jerusalem, 16-22 June. (Synopsis Symposium No 2). Paper: "Constraints of Realeme Insertability in Narrative"

1979

International Conference: "Semiotic Terminology and Its Historic Development". The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Culture, Budapest, 28 July-1 August. Paper: "Polysystem Theory"

1979

2nd Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies (IASS), Vienna, 2-6 July. Paper: "Polysystem Theory"

1979

"The International Conference on Research in Yiddish Language and Literature". Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 6-9 August. Paper: "Aspects of the Hebrew-Yiddish Polysystem"

1979

International Semiotic Workshop: "The Systematics, History and Terminology of Semiotics", Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften, Berlin, 16-22 September. Paper: "PS: Depletion and Shift"

1979

Romanistentag 1979, University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, 26-28 September. Plenary Lecture: "Modèles textuels de la culture: Notes sur le cas français"

1979

The Yad Ben Zvi Forum for Researchers in the History of Palestine and Its Jewish Settlement, The Ben-Zvi Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, 12 December. Lecture: "The Emergence and Crystalization of Native Hebrew Culture in Palestine 1882-1948"

1978

1st National Conference of the Israeli Association of Slavic and East European Studies, Jerusalem, The Hebrew University, 23 March. Lecture: "Russian Interference with Hebrew"

1978

International Symposium: "Translation Theory and Intercultural Relations". The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University, 28-31 March. (Synopsis Symposium No 1). Paper: "Translation Theory Today: A Call for Transfer Theory"

1978

Tel Aviv National Symposium "Hebrew Literature and Culture in Palestine". The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University. Lecture: "The Emergence of Native Hebrew Culture in Palestine 1882-1948"

1977

Tel Aviv Porter Inauguration Symposium: Literature and Meaning in Language, Society and History. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Paper: "On Systemic Universals in Cultural History"

1977

International Symposium: "The Dynamics of Eastern European Ethnicity Outside of Eastern Europe, with Special Emphasis on the American Case". The Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, June 28-July 3 (Funding Agency: American Council of Learned Societies). Paper: "Russian and Hebrew: The Case of a Dependent Polysystem"

1976

International Symposium: "Literature and Translation: New Perspectives in Literary Studies", Leuven (Louvain), The Catholic University, 27-30 April. Paper: "The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem"

1976

VIIIth International Congress of the International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA), Budapest, 12-17 August. Paper: "Diachronic Processes of Interference in Dependent Literary Polysystems"

1976

International Colloquium: Problems of Translation Theory, Budapest, 18-19 August. Paper: "Should We Accept the Conception of Translation as a Meta-Textual Activity?"

1976

Nobel Symposium: Theory and Practice of Translation, Stockholm, 6-10 September

1975

Interdisciplinäres Symposium Roman Jakobson, Universität Bielefeld, 21-22 May. (No Papers were presented) (with Jakobson's participation)

1975

Meeting of the Dutch Association for General and Comparative Literary Studies, Amsterdam. 22 November. Paper: "Translation Theory, Poetics and Comparative Literature"

1974

First Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies (IASS), Milano, Italy, 2-6 June. Paper: "The Textemic Status of Signs in the Literary Text and Its Translation"

1973

VIIth International Congress of the International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA), Montreal-Ottawa, 13-19 August. Paper: "The Relations between Primary and Secondary Systems within the Literary Polysystem"

1970

Tel Aviv Interdepartmental Symposium on the Theory of the History of Literature, Tel Aviv University, 2 February. Paper: "The Function of the Literary Polysystem in the History of Literature"