Indirect Translations and Multilingualism in the Early Modern Period: Processes, Acteurs and Transfer Pathways

The Department of Dutch Studies of the Universität Duisburg-Essen is hosting a two-day workshop. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussion on Early Modern translation cultures, historical multilingual constellations, and methodological perspectives on indirect translations. You can find out more about it here.

Programme:

Thursay, 17th September, 9:15 am – 6 pm Campus Essen, R11 T03 C20

• Martina Schrader-Kniffki (Universiteit Mainz/Germersheim): Intermediäre
  Übersetzung und Intertextualität im Bvcabulario de la lengua castellana y zapoteca
  nexitza (Neu-Spanien, 1696).
• Christopher Joby (University of East Anglia Norwich): Translation and the Early
  Modern City: Direct and Indirect Translations involving Dutch in Norwich.
• Pia Awater & Prof. Dr. Ute K. Boonen (Universität Duisbug-Essen): ‘Den Umweg
  sichtbar machen’. Methoden und Ergebnisse der Rekonstruktion indirekter
  Übersetzungen über das Niederländische.
• Studierende der UDE: Intermediäre Übersetzungen in der Lehre:
  Thomas Taylor und Nicholas Byfield.
• Regina Toepfer (Universität Würzburg): Indirekte Übersetzungen und
  Intermediärsprachen in den deutschen ‘Metamorphosen’ des 16. Jahrhunderts.
• Jörg Wesche (Universität Göttingen): Lutherübersetzungen des 16. Jahrhunderts

Friday, 18th September, 9 am – 1 pm Campus Essen, S06 S00 B29

• Nicoline van der Sijs (IvdNT Leiden): Foreign languages and translation – How to
  learn in the 17th and 18th centuries?
• Andreas Krogull (Universität Zürich): Sprachbiographien in der historischen
  Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung.
• Heinz Eickmans (Universität Duisburg-Essen): Indirekter Wissenstransfer im 18.
  Jahrhundert: Die Vermittlung enzyklopädischer Reihenwerke der Aufklärung über
  die Niederlande und das Niederländische.
• Lunch

Also, our central joint project for the second funding phase is currently being published in stages:

Handbuch Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit

This interdisciplinary compendium is devoted to the translation cultures of the Early Modern period from the perspectives of disciplines ranging from German philology, history, Islamic studies, and Jewish studies to Celtic studies, Latin studies, Romance studies, theology, translation studies, art history, philosophy, and the history of science. Contributions on analytical approaches serve to outline modern methods of translation research, which are supplemented by historical concepts of and reflections on translation dating from the period between 1450 to 1800. Relevant translation institutions are as much a topic of interest as various translation spaces from regional to global. Overviews of the multifarious forms and practices of translation in the Early Modern period round out the spectrum. With more than 70 articles, the guide offers a compendium of current research in translation history, and with its praxeological approach it sheds light on the linguistic, medial, anthropological, and cultural dynamics of translation.

Regina Toepfer, Peter Burschel, Annkathrin Koppers, Jörg Wesche (eds.). 2025. Handbuch Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Heidelberg, Berlin: J.B. Metzler.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68654-6.