This ‘Digital Discussion’ with Dr Sonja Brentjes is about Narratives on Translation across Eurasia and Africa: From Antiquity to Modern Times.
As part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar "Transferts culturels" of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and the University of Leipzig (DFG-SFB 1199), PD Dr Susanne Greilich and Prof Dr Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (SPP-Project Encyclopaedism) give a lecture on transcultural knowledge transfers, mediator figures and intercultural appropriation processes in the context of French encyclopedism. Interested parties are invited to register here.
Workshop of the SPP 2130-TransUnit 'Mapping Translation'
The guest speaker for this ‘Digital Discussion’ is Prof Dr Joachim Hamm, Institute for German Philology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. The topic “Transformation and Authorship. Sebastian Brant, Jakob Locher and the Latin ‘Ship of Fools’ (1497)”.
You will receive access data by email from the SPP 2130 office.
Conference of the research group “Ottoman Europe: Methods and Perspectives of Early Modern Studies on Southeast Europe”.
Information and programme can be found here.
Workshop with Ulrike Dräsner on essayistic writing.
SPP-internal work meeting to prepare the joint exhibition.
Guest speaker of this 'Digital Discussion' is Judith Rosenthal (English German Language Service, Frankfurt aM), the translator of the SPP 2130, the topic: "Behind the scenes: A career as an art translator".
All interested and associated parties are cordially invited to register at the office.
Third annual conference of SPP 2130
To the complete CfP
Application deadline: 31 March 2021
Translation is Power
Secrets - Gifts - Stories
in the Early Modern Period
The central programme project of the SPP 2130 will be officially launched in the context of the 3rd Annual Conference.
Practices of translation between languages and the pragmatic transfer of translated texts into actual usage have emerged as the topic central to the majority of the sixteen research projects in the SPP 1981 “Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”, that looks at social and (trans)cultural ties between the Muscovite Tsardom and/or Petersburg Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia and Iran from the early modern period to the beginning of the twentieth century.
For more information see the full CfP.
Please send a description of your proposal, including the topic, the specific approach, and the sources used (one page) and a short academic CV by 31 January 2021 to Florian Riedler.