Translating Russian & East European cultures: Exchange and communication within a multidisciplinary and multicultural Area Studies context

“知识转移”和“跨学科性”是英国许多研究活动的核心，这引起了人们对学术知识如何形成学科边界并更广泛地将学术界和社会联系起来的关注。这些议程得到了国家主导的倡议的支持，这些倡议挑战学术知识，以获得与英国社会更大的相关性和显赫地位。在此背景下，目前的建议旨在批判性地探索在俄罗斯、中欧和东欧研究的多学科和多文化背景下翻译、构建和叙述俄罗斯和东欧文化的多种方式。研究网络倡议是由与俄罗斯、中欧和东欧研究中心(CRCEES)的活动相关的多学科和多文化领域研究背景形成的。地区研究结合了艺术和人文科学以及社会科学的学科，努力翻译和构建文化，提供了一个令人振奋的背景，可以在其中批判性地反思学科语言、知识交流和创造性合作的问题。该建议包括一系列讲习班、培训班、圆桌会议和暑期学校活动，重点是在该倡议结束时在格拉斯哥举办一项公共活动。各种活动和主要活动将汇集来自一系列学科和机构的学者，以及专业艺术家、学童和其他感兴趣的团体，以探讨“翻译俄罗斯和东欧文化”这一中心主题。具体的研究目标包括：1.考察俄罗斯和东欧文化的理解是如何跨越学科、语言和学术最终用户边界进行交流和翻译的。2.考虑到区域研究的多学科基础、培训和做法在学科间以及跨越学术最终用户边界和文化鸿沟的情况下促进知识交流的创新手段的潜力。3.利用学术和非学术方面的专门知识，开发和试验一系列传播技术和做法。4.鼓励最终用户社区(学童、公众、地方/国家政府代表、非政府组织)参与倡议的所有阶段(即主要活动的初步筹备、举办、提议的活动和成果将与广泛的最终用户/受益者(如普通公众、学校、国家/非国家组织)以及跨艺术/人文和社会科学的学科有关。

'Knowledge Transfer' and 'Interdisciplinarity' are at the heart of many research initiatives in the UK drawing attention to the ways in which academic knowledge shapes disciplinary boundaries and connects academia and society more generally. Such agendas are underpinned by state-led initiatives which challenge academic knowledge to acquire greater relevance and saliency for UK society. Within this context, the current proposal aims to explore critically the multiple ways in which Russian and East European cultures are translated, constructed and narrated within the multidisciplinary and multicultural context of Russian, Central and East European Studies.The Research Network initiative has been shaped by the multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural Area Studies context associated with the activities of the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES). Area Studies, with its mix of disciplines from the Arts and Humanities as well as the Social Sciences and efforts to translate and construct cultures provides a stimulating context within which to reflect critically on the issues of disciplinary languages, knowledge exchange and creative collaborations.The proposal consists of a series of workshops, training sessions, roundtables, and Summer School participation focussed around the development and staging of a public event which is to take place in Glasgow towards the end of the initiative. The various activities and main event will bring together academics from a range of disciplines and institutions in addition to professional artists, school children and other interested groups in order to explore the central theme of 'Translating Russian & East European cultures.' Specific research objectives include:1.To examine how understandings of Russian and East European cultures are communicated and translated across disciplinary, linguistic and academic-end user boundaries. 2.To consider the potential for Area Studies to facilitate innovative means of knowledge exchange given its multidisciplinary basis, training and practices both between disciplines as well as across academic-end user boundaries and cultural divides.3.To develop and trial a range of dissemination techniques and practices drawing from expertise within both academic and non-academic contexts.4.To encourage the involvement of end user communities (school children, general public, local/national government representatives, non-governmental organisations) at all stages of the initiative (i.e. initial preparation, staging of the main event, and post-event evaluative activities.)The activities and outcomes of the proposal will have relevance for a broad range of end users/beneficiaries (e.g. general public, schools, state/non-state organisations) as well as for disciplines across the Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences.