Event Information:

• Thu

  13

  Apr

  2023

  Sat

  15

  Apr

  2023

  “The Wrong Direction”

  Tübingen

  Anja Wolkenhauer and Julia Heideklang invite: “Based on our research in context of the DFG project Versio Latina, we aim to decidedly change our perspective and to focus particularly on early modern Latin translations, looking, as Peter Burke once articulated ‚into the wrong direction‘ (Burke 2007). What are their functions? Who translated and for what kind of readership; which expectations were placed on these translations by translators, editors, and printer-publishers? Were they successful, reprinted, overruled by rival products, or was their efficiency augmented by being intermediary versions for translations into other languages? (The full concept can be found here.)

  Various contributions came together to form a wonderful conference program. The current version of the preliminary program is attached, with the aim to spark your interest, hoping that we may welcome you in Tübingen next spring at our conference!”