Translation and Medical Humanities
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
A Vital Practice: Translating Narrative Prothesis in Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Magdala Jeudy demonstrates her practice of translation with an episode from Emile Zola's L'Assommoir that raises many questions about conscious and un...
Conference Highlights
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023 Funded by Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Susta...
Into the Translation Zone
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, ou...
I shiver a little, I shudder a little:” Gist Translation and Uncanny Bodily Knowledges
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance. Appearing from distinct cultural traditions, but coalescing in the tradition of scholarship, w...
Working Knowledge and the Duality of Uncertainty: Translating Heterogeneous Knowledge Networks in Long Covid Clinics
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this keynote speech, Trish Greenhalgh uses ideas of translation to analyse, make sense of, and bring under a unified lens the heterogenous knowledg...
Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and s...
Translating Symbolism into Precision Medicine
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating exploration of the likenesses between cellular and verbal communication, and their impact on the insurgence of disease. Banafshé Larija...
Health Rhymes with Death
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Gardini challenges the idea that health is the opposite of disease. Nicola Gardini suggests that health is a creative process of self-fashionin...
Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities...
Health, Ecology and Activism: The Dark Side of Translation
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mona Baker’s key note examines the work of recently founded groups of volunteer translators who focus on the intersection of health and the environm...
Medical Humanities’ Translational Core: Remodeling the Field
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marta Arnaldi helps us imagine medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field. She envisions ways of thinking translationally about health ...
Bodies in Translation: Towards a Translational Medical Humanities
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor John Ødemark outlines the key ideas underpinning the Bodies in Translation project and its role in shaping a translational medical humaniti...
Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This keynote lecture approaches issues of translation by decolonizing dominant conceptions of language and medicine. It proposes collaborations aimed ...