For visual, performative, or multimedia works, you are welcome to include documentation (images, video or audio links) and technical requirements. The Yanai Initiative will cover the cost of travel and accommodation for accepted speakers. We look forward to your proposals!

We encourage contributions in a variety of formats, from academic papers to creative-critical hybrids, including presentations and discussions of translations in the form of texts, artworks, performances, music, and so on.

Please submit a proposal (~300-400 words) describing your project and how it fits into your broader intellectual and/or creative interests, along with a CV of no more than 2 pages, to David Yang (davidsyang[at]g[dot]ucla[dot]edu) by November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM (PT).

▪️Algorithmic Translations: Projects exploring how machine translation, artificial intelligence, and digital interfaces can reconfigure the boundaries of language, authorship, and meaning.

▪️Asemic, Non-Representational, or Asignifying Poetics: Writing or translational practices that exceed conventional notions of semantic meaning.

▪️Histories and Theories of East Asian Translation: Engagements with premodern or modern East Asian theories and practices of translation that challenge, complicate, or expand established perspectives, knowledge, or analytic frameworks.

▪️ Language, Medium, and Materiality: Investigations into how translation from, into, or between East Asian languages negotiates diverse media, sensory registers, and material forms.

We invite proposals on topics or practices including, but not limited to:

▪️ Experimental Modes of Translation: Visual, sonic, performative, and intermedial translation experiments (realized, hypothetical, or speculative).

By attending closely to the affordances of East Asian languages and scripts, this symposium seeks not only to deepen our understanding of translation, but also to showcase alternative translational practices that cut across linguistic, medial, and epistemic borders.

We are interested in work that foregrounds translation’s affective, material, and performative dimensions; that opens our eyes to new ways of seeing, engaging with, or experiencing translation; that explores innovative, unexpected ways of using translation in the classroom.

We welcome proposals from practitioners & scholars approaching translation as a generative space—one that opens onto creative experimentation and critical inquiry, serving as a medium for working through the tensions between theory & practice & pushing against their boundaries.

This symposium seeks to highlight the connections between seemingly disparate strands of linguistic and textual practices by bringing together translators, artists, and scholars working at the intersection of East Asian languages and experimental translation.

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ツアーに先立ち6月13日（金）午後、早稲田大学小野講堂にて紙フィルムのデジタル化に尽力されているEric Faden教授（バックネル大学）による講演会をデュオ琴乃の実演を交えて開催します。Faden 教授の「紙フィルム研究プロジェクト」については、こちらのウェブページをご覧ください。紙フィルム研究プロジェクトは日本映像学会メディア考古学研究会と連携して学術研究をおこなっています。これからの研究の展開も楽しみです。