Translation and Medical Humanities

Feb 12 2024 13 ep. 21 mins 7
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This series of video podcasts highlights some of the key moments of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference which took place at the University of Oxford on 5-6 September 2023. This international conference explored, for the first time and in an interdisciplinary fashion, the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; it invoked the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and it reappraised the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems. Organised by Dr Marta Arnaldi and Prof John Ødemark in collaboration with Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation. With the contribution of Medical Humanities, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford; Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford; the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo; and The Polyphony, Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Funded by Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, and The Research Council of Norway.

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A Vital Practice: Translating Narrative Prothesis in Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir

Feb 12 2024 18 mins  
Magdala Jeudy demonstrates her practice of translation with an episode from Emile Zola's L'Assommoir that raises many questions about conscious and unconscious translation practices.

Conference Highlights

Jan 04 2024 2 mins  
A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023 Funded by Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, and The Research Council of Norway.

Into the Translation Zone

Jan 04 2024 3 mins  
Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, our beliefs of what counts as science, practice, and/or knowledge. Marta Arnaldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo.

I shiver a little, I shudder a little:” Gist Translation and Uncanny Bodily Knowledges

Jan 04 2024 16 mins  
A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance. Appearing from distinct cultural traditions, but coalescing in the tradition of scholarship, we not only recognise but rely on gist to navigate the often-opaque waters of intercultural flows. A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance. Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages a

Working Knowledge and the Duality of Uncertainty: Translating Heterogeneous Knowledge Networks in Long Covid Clinics

Jan 03 2024 39 mins  
In this keynote speech, Trish Greenhalgh uses ideas of translation to analyse, make sense of, and bring under a unified lens the heterogenous knowledge networks at play in long-covid clinics. Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians: https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/trish-greenhalgh

Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities

Jan 03 2024 12 mins  
The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields. At the end of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference (https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/translation-and-medical-humanities.html) at the University of Oxfo

Translating Symbolism into Precision Medicine

Jan 03 2024 15 mins  
A fascinating exploration of the likenesses between cellular and verbal communication, and their impact on the insurgence of disease. Banafshé Larijani (https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/banafshe-larijani) is Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, University of Bath. She is an international scientist and poet who explores the continuum between science and ar

Health Rhymes with Death

Jan 03 2024 18 mins  
Nicola Gardini challenges the idea that health is the opposite of disease. Nicola Gardini suggests that health is a creative process of self-fashioning culminating with death. It resembles translation – in particular, translation from poetry. Constructing health is constructing the ‘beauty’ of a new form. An award-winning writer and a painter, Nicola Gardini is Professor of

Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions

Jan 03 2024 76 mins  
The speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities independently and collaboratively, as separate areas and as a unified field. Marta Arnaldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac

Health, Ecology and Activism: The Dark Side of Translation

Jan 03 2024 28 mins  
Mona Baker’s key note examines the work of recently founded groups of volunteer translators who focus on the intersection of health and the environment. Contrary to the dominant view of translation as an empowering ‘act of care’, much of the work of these (often well intentioned) groups perpetuate, rather than combatting, epistemic injustice. Mona Baker is Affiliate Profe