Public and Private Narratives of Citizenship and Belonging

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Two public lectures with guest speakers Professor Anne-Marie Fortier (University of Lancaster) and Dr Sue-Ann Harding (Queen’s University Belfast), as part of the Citizens theme at the School.  Followed by a tea and cake reception in the School of Modern Languages foyer between 16:00-17:00.

Citizenship in uncertain times: life in the waiting room of British citizenisation – Professor Anne-Marie Fortier (University of Lancaster)

Abstract

The paper summarises my current research on citizenship regimes in Britain. The research considers the British naturalisation process since the turn of the millennium, which follows a general trend in Western Europe to tighten access to citizenship for immigrants (some more than others). However, Britain is also distinctive on many fronts, namely in terms of how its colonial history shapes its current (and future) citizenship regime.

Biography

Anne-Marie Fortier is Professor at the Sociology Department of the University of Lancaster. Her main research interests include topics such as migrant community formation, multiculturalism, cohesion and integration, and the citizenship naturalisation process in England. Among her publications are Migrant Belongings: Memory, Space, Identity (2000) and Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (2008). She is completing a new book with Manchester University Press with the working title: Life in the Waiting Room: uncertain citizenship and citizenisation in Britain.

“Nobody’s Heard of It, and It Isn’t Even There”: Place, resilience, relatedness and translating the Qatar Peninsula – Dr Sue-Ann Harding (Queen’s University Belfast)

Abstract

This presentation draws on my ongoing research into reading and translating the landscapes of the Qatar Peninsula. Beginning with the premise that landscapes are texts that, like any text, require reading and translating for them to have meaning for us, the project uses archival material and contemporary interviews to seek out alternative and forgotten interpretations of place that resist and challenge Qatar’s dominant public narratives of unfettered progress and modernity. Place, resilience and relatedness, Cronin’s (2017) three underlying principles of his ecology of translation, are used as interconnected themes in the paper to draw together examples from the archive and to ask questions about who is included and excluded in discursive constructions of place, which places matter and what we should remember.

Biography

Sue-Ann Harding is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and convenor of the MA Translation programme at Queen’s University Belfast. Her main research interests are in social-narrative theory as a mode of inquiry into translations and translated events, with a particular interest in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. Publications include The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture co-edited with Ovidi Carbonell Cortés (Routledge, 2018); Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages, coedited with Kathryn Batchelor (Routledge 2017); and Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (Manchester University Press 2012). She is the Chair of the Executive Council for the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), Reviews Editor for The Translator (Taylor and Francis), a member of the Advisory Board for the Shanghai Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, and serves as an ARTIS (Advancing Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies) Associate.

Simultaneous Translation

The event will be delivered in the medium of English. You are welcome to ask questions in the medium of Welsh during the Q&A session. If you intend to do this, please contact mlang-events@cardiff.ac.uk by Thursday 31 October to request simultaneous translation. Please note that 10% or more of those planning to attend will need to request this provision in order for it to be sourced and will be subject to resource availability.

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