Event Information:

• Thu

  28

  Sep

  2017

  Sat

  30

  Sep

  2017

  FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Translation as Cultural Dissemination from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium

  Bergamo, Italy

  Abstracts of ca. 300 words (excluding references) are cordially invited for 20-minute presentations followed by discussion. While contributions may be in English or in Italian / French / German / Russian / Spanish, any accompanying material (abstract, handout, Powerpoint presentation) must be in English.

  Suggested topics include:
  - Translation, culture and cognition;
  - History of translation and translation studies;
  - Lexicography and the tools of translation through time;
  - The translation of medieval texts: theoretical and methodological specificities;
  - Teaching (in) translation;
  - Comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to the dissemination of knowledge in Europe
  and the Americas;
  - The relapses of the “two-culture-debate” on recent hermeneutic and translation theories;
  - Dispossession, vulnerability and resistance in translation studies, cultural exchange and cultural transfer;
  - The poetics of translation.