Institute of Advanced Studies

The margins of a text represent a space where readers, scholars, critics, editors and translators frequently annotate, question, translate, correct or argue with the text, creating their own alternative texts.

Metaphorically, margins are contested spaces, drawing attention to the assumptions underlying the denotation of what constitutes the centre, the mainstream, the important, the essential and the legitimate.

This conference was held on Friday, 6 June 2008, at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA.