Closing Event

Conf.: Common Grounds: Towards a Medieval Comparative Literature

Medieval European literature crosses linguistic and cultural boundaries alike, making interdisciplinary work in the field of medieval studies a virtual necessity.

Conf.: Contents of Faith in Transfer: Texts and Contexts of Early Modern Catechism Translations

In the context of the various Early Modern evangelizing endeavours within and outside of Europe, which aimed to propagate (competing) varieties of Christianity for religious or power-political reasons, catechisms played an important role.

Conf.: Women Author-Translators around 1800: Authorship, Translation Practice and Gender at the Interface between Aesthetic and Sociopolitical Debate

“Women have always written and translated. Whether or not they published their works (anonymously, under a pseudonym, or under their real name), had them privately circulated, or kept them under lock and key depended on historical contexts, social framework...

Conf.: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Early Modern Reflection on Translation: Terminology – Metaphors – Topoi

The significance of translations of literary and non-literary source texts from the early as well as neighbouring vernaculars for Early Modern writing cultures can hardly be overestimated. On the strength of contemporary imitation poetics, translation practices exerted a far-reaching...

Programme and public panel discussion: Translating Diversity: Visibility and Normalization in Literature

Fifth annual conference of the SPP 2130 ‘Early Modern Translation Cultures’ The official programme of the SPP 2130’s annual conference ‘Gender and Diversity in Early Modern Translation Cultures’, can be found attached, or along with all the latest information...

Int. Conf.: Nouveaux savoirs du monde/Savoirs du Nouveau Monde : encyclopédisme, processus de traduction et réorganisations du savoir au siècle des Lumières (New World-Knowledge: Encyclopedism, Translation Processes, and Rearrangements of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment)

Geographical and anthropological knowledge of both Europe and the non-European world was of particular importance in the long 18th century. Beyond the Enlightenment’s general interest in knowledge, this has to be viewed against the background of political, colonial and...

Int. Conf.: Connecting Translation

“The work of translation, which is a central component of intercultural exchange and international knowledge circulation, is commonly regarded as a lonely business. Recently, however, work has been done on many levels to strengthen the exchange among translators.

Gender and Diversity in Early Modern Translation Cultures

Fifth annual conference of the SPP 2130 ‘Early Modern Translation Cultures’ Translators are not bodyless and historyless beings. They inscribe themselves and their own subjective understandings as well as culturally dominant social and sexual norms into their translations, which...

Translating Ancient Texts in Early Modern Europe

In February, scholars of various disciplines and nationalities come together in Würzburg to discuss their projects and research in the area of Early Modern translations of classical texts. Persons engaged in research in the fields of classical, German and...