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SUMMARY:GRACLS 2026: Global Imagination
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DESCRIPTION:“Any thorough reading of a text out of the past of one’s own l
 anguage and literature is a manifold act of interpretation”\n- George Ste
 iner\n\nIn 2022\, OpenAI changed the landscape of translation. However\, 
 AI and machine translation only represent the surface value between langu
 ages\, as “AI has very little understanding of nuance\, subtlety\, humor\
 , or any of the other aspects of really good writing” (McKay). Much as AI
  translation can only approximate translation from one language to anothe
 r\, language itself can only approximate translation from the self to the
  other.\n\nAll communication is interpretation\; all language is imprecis
 e. How do we navigate these gaps? How do we attempt to bridge them? How c
 an these spaces between what we mean\, what we say\, and what we understa
 nd be productive? Language is a powerful creative force that structures s
 ociety and communication\, and yet language is also an imperfect tool.\n\
 nFor our 21st Annual GRACLS Conference\, we invite 20-minute presentation
 s from any applicable field of inquiry. These presentations may take the 
 form of scholarly papers\, creative works\, performances\, posters\, etc.
 \, and may be in languages other than English. The act of translation is 
 not exclusive to a paradigm of one spoken language to another contemporan
 eous language (or vice versa)\, but instead can act across genres\, place
 s\, and time\, and thus we welcome presentations that engage with the bro
 adest possible applications of\ntranslation\, transcreation\, transmedia\
 , and simi\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/6c648dd1-5bc6-4200-a711-78a1117
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