‘Speaking Memory: Translation Sites and their Conflicting Stories’ - Prof Sherry Simon.
UCL Centre for Translation Studies invites you to join us for a free public lecture given by renowned international academic, Prof Sherry Simon (Concordia University). All are welcome and there is no need to pre-book.
‘Speaking Memory: Translation Sites and their Conflicting Stories’ - Prof Sherry Simon.
26 Feb 2024, 18:00 – 19:15
A hotel in Sarajevo, a memorial in Lviv, a bridge in Mostar, a museum in Ottawa, a market in Hong Kong and a church in Toledo, these are all sites shaped by conversations across languages. Here words and histories meet – in modes of coexistence, rivalry or conquest.
Translation sites are places of overlapping and conflicting stories. To visit them is to experience competing versions of history and the uneven fit between present and past. This presentation will focus on the city of Prague between 1900 and 1935, and the opera houses that crystallized its competing cultural worlds.
During a period of great effervescence, musicians and mediators played important roles, among others, Max Brod, Leos Janacek, Milena Jesenska, Alexander Zemlinsky, making Prague an emblematic translational city.
Sherry Simon
Professor Emerita
Concordia University
Sherry Simon is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the French Department of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She has written extensively about translation and the cultural life of cities. Among her publications are Translating Montreal and Cities in Translation. Her most recent publications are Translation Sites, 2019 and Promenades polyglottes. Le mont Royal et ses langues, 2023.
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