The talk "Intermediaries, #Translators, and #Mediators. The Making of World #Authorship" will take place at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (#KWI@kwi_essen) on September 10, 2024.
this drawing reminds me: read Translation as Transhumance (2017) by Mireille Gansel, trans. Ros Schwartz
Gansel recalls her life as a translator as one of smuggling words, ideas, lives, across walls erected by anti-human forces. Rescuing language from history, rescuing poetry from barbed wire & bombs that target not only humans but the very idea of their humanity