In conceptualising this lecture series, we conceived of 'translation' in the broadest of terms. That is, not just as the translation of words or texts from one language into another, but also as the much wider process of moving or conveying cultural material or information from one context or medium into another. Translation thus serves here as a general term for various forms of intercultural communication.
The talks will take place in Michaelmas and Lent Terms on Thursdays from 5:30pm at several venues (please see below for details).
Michaelmas Term 2024
17 October 2024
Perspectives on "Pushkinopad" in Ukraine
Susanna Witt (Stockholm University)
Manipulated Lexicon: Reshaping the Ukrainian Language through Dictionaries
Valentyna Savchyn (Lund University)
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College
31 October 2024
Integrating Jewish Studies with Russian Exilic Studies: The Holocaust and the End of Russia Abroad
Leonid Livak (University of Toronto)
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College
28 November 2024
Hamid Izmailov and Donald Rayfield: In Conversation
Donald Rayfield & Hamid Ismailov
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College
Lent Term 2025
30 January 2025
Transcultural Things in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
Tomasz Grusiecki (Boise State University)
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College
13 February 2025
Translating Postcoloniality in Post-Soviet Literature and Culture
Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania) and Tamar Koplatadze (University of Oxford)
Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College
27 February 2025
Birchbark Literacy in the Graphosphere of Medieval Novgorod
Jos Schaeken (Leiden University)
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College
13 March 2025
From Thessaloniki to Chernihiv or, Varieties and Vagaries of the Ukrainian Vulgate
Andriy Danylenko (Pace University, New York)
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College