Discourses of Stability, Change, Exchange: Cultural Translation and Global Television Studies

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This panel assesses the forms, impact and implications of television programming circulated across national and cultural borders in various parts of the world. The presentations feature analyses of television programming for cultural translation in a country in North America (the United States), one in Asia-Pacific (Fiji), one in the former Soviet Union (Ukraine), and a country recently accepted in the European Union (Romania). Presenters will evaluate the issues and the policies regarding televised cultural translation.

Sub Unit

• Mass Communication Division

Chair

• Kyle Conway, University of North Dakota

Individual Presentations

• Television and Cultural Translation in the United States - Kyle Conway, University of North Dakota

• Television and Cultural Translation in Ukraine - Anna Popkova, University of Minnesota; Yuliya Kartoshkina, University of North Dakota

• Television and Cultural Translation in Romania - Diana Cismaru, NULL; Diana Nastasia, University of North Dakota; Sorin Nastasia, University of North Dakota

Session Organizer

• Kyle Conway, University of North Dakota