Prof. Joyce L. Arriola, Ph.D., Chairperson of the Department of Literature and Humanities, presented a paper at the 8th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS) Conference held in Vienna, Austria on August 11 to 14, 2015. Dr. Arriola read her paper entitled "Borrowed Plots, 'Local' Stories: Translating into European Korido into Comics Films" under the panel titled Theorizing Translation: Southeast Asia as Vantage Point. Aside from the Arriola, the other members of the panel included Dr. Eloisa May Hernandez and Dr. Aileen Salonga, both from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and Ms. Isabel Change, a doctoral candidate from the University of Heidelberg.
The panel discussed intersemiotic translation from the perspectives of art studies, film studies and language studies. It presented an against-the-grain and more contemporary view of translation. To quote the panel description: "This panel locates itself in this more contemporary theorizing on translation, and explores the possibilities of such contemporary movements in Southeast Asia. It asserts that given the multilingual, multicultural and multimodal nature of Southeast Asia, it is rich and productive site for studying these new directions in translation studies. " This panel therefore seeks papers that would demonstrate the transmedial and cultural elements of translation in different facets of Southeast Asia. "(www.euroseas.org./content/conference)
- Panel members Dr. Aileen Jackson (University of the Philippines-Diliman), Dr. Eloisa May Hernandez (University of the Philippines-Diliman), Ms. Isabel Chang (University of Heidelberg) and Dr. Joyce Arriola (University of Santo Tomas)
Dr. Arriola's paper explores this view of translation along intersemiotic lines. Invoking koridos brought to the Philippines during the Spanish colonial years as precursor texts, Arriola analyzed how these have been transformed into comics and eventually into films in the 1950s. However, the ultimate objective of the study Arriola's adaptation is to build a larger translation theory with film history as springboard. Furthermore, the paper "explores the nature and method of involving transmediation 1950s comics and film and the postcolonial hybridities that they were implicated in the process." ( Www.euroseas.org./content/ conference)
The 8th EUROSEAS Conference was highlighted by two keynote lectures delivered by Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities , and Ayu Utami, an award-winning Indonesian novelist. Anderson spoke on the future of Southeast Asian scholarship while Utami spoke on Indonesian literary spirit and contemporary social realities in her country. The conference papers ranged from history, political science, development studies, sociology, anthropology, language studies, literature, art studies, religious studies, urban planning and other issues confronting the future of Southeast Asia such as the matter of ASEAN Integration.
The EUROSEAS is a 20-year-old organization of European scholars on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Studies. It is a multidisciplinary organization based in Europe. It engages a lively exchange of ideas with scholars from Southeast Asia.
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