-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Boria Sent: 14 January 2016 16:30 To: Crassh Ccitrans <[email protected]> Subject: CCiTrans Translation & Philosophy - Panel Discussion - Wed 20 January
Dear All, You are warmly invited to the first event in this term's Conversations in Translation series, which will take place on Wednesday, 20th January, from 2.30 to 4.30 at CRASSH (Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT). The panel discussion will address questions concerning the impact translation can have on the development and transmission of philosophical ideas, the extent to which philosophy relies on translation for its very existence, and the reciprocal influence philosophical theories have exerted over the theory and practice of translation. Our discussion will open with thoughts from the following speakers: David Charlston (Manchester) Tim Crane (Cambridge) Danielle Sands (London) We have invited our speakers to address one or more of the three questions set out below, where you will also find more information on their respective backgrounds and current interests. We trust this will be another thought-provoking session, with ample opportunity for questions and debate, and more informal exchanges over tea and coffee at the end. We hope you will be able to join us! Finally, if you haven't already had a chance to give us some feedback and you've got a few spare minutes, we'd love to hear from you - please just follow this link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B2XSC5H The CCiT ConvenorTeam -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What happens, or can happen, to philosophical ideas when they are translated from one language into another? 2. What can philosophy contribute to our understanding of translation? And conversely, what can translation bring to the way we approach philosophy? 3. For Derrida, the whole edifice of Western philosophy rests upon the assumption of translatability. What does he mean by this? Is he right? David Charlston has been a freelance translator for 25 years. He completed his PhD in Translation Studies at Manchester in 2012 with a thesis on the English translations of Hegel's Phenomenology. He is a co-editor of the journal New Voices in Translation Studies and has published articles in The Translator (2012) and Radical Philosophy (2014). David is particularly interested in the influence of translation on the passage of philosophical ideas between cultures. Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse. Before coming to Cambridge in 2009 he taught at UCL for twenty years and founded the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London in 2005. He is the general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and philosophy consultant editor of the TLS, for which he writes regularly. Crane is the author of a number of books, including The Mechanical Mind (1995, 3rd edition 2016), Elements of Mind (2001), The Objects of Thought (2013) and Aspects of Psychologism (2014). He has defended a conception of the mind which rejects both scientistic reductionism and the idea that philosophy should be insulated from science, and he has argued that intentionality - the mind's direction on its objects, or its representational power - is the essential feature of the mind. Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Her work operates between literary studies and philosophy and her articles, translation, and reviews have been published in Textual Practice, philoSOPHIA, Critique, Times Higher Education, Philosophy in Review, Parrhesia, and the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. She has chapters forthcoming in the volumes Philosophy after Nature and The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies and is currently completing her first monograph Writing Religion and Politics after Derrida. For information on CCiTrans mailing list visit: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/crassh-ccitrans For information on our Research Group visit our web page: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/cambridge-conversations-in-translation _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
