“Lost in Transfer? Misunderstanding, Miscommunication, and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean”
Friday, Feb 14
Royce 314,
10745 Dickson Ct
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map
Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA), Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven), and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn)
The question of how knowledge transfers has become central for understanding the culture of the premodern world in a global perspective. This workshop is interested in exploring the question of what happens when transfer fails: what happens when knowledge is not “translated” properly? What kind of knowledge is produced when the chain of transmission breaks down or malfunctions? We think that miscommunication is as important as communication, and we propose to explore this theme both by examining specific case studies of miscommunication and by investigating what they tell us about the structure and modes by which knowledge is produced, which in turn allows us to get to the question of the very category of “transfer” from a philosophical and theoretical perspective.
Register to attend in Royce 314
Conference Schedule:
| 9:30 | Coffee, fresh fruit, pastries |
| 10:00 | Welcoming Remarks (Zrinka Stahuljak, Director CMRS-CEGS) |
| 10:15 | Paper 1: Lost in Translation: Early Modern Jesuits and the Creed (Emanuele Colombo, Boston College) |
| 10:45 | Paper 2: Mistranslating Indigenous America in the ‘Age of Reason’: Epistemological Hybridity and Colonial Violence (Diego Pirillo, University of California, Berkeley) |
| 11:15 | Paper 3: Oikonomia Understood and Misunderstood: The Latin and English Reception of Byzantine Chemical Terminology (Alexandre M. Roberts, University of Southern California) |
| 11:45 | Break |
| 12:00 | Discussion 1 (Paper 1, 2, 3) – Chaired by Matthew Acton (KU Leuven & University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’) |
| 12:45 | Lunch Break (on Royce 306 loggia) |
| 2:00 | Paper 4: Rebellious, but effective Medieval Translations into Arabic (Cecilia Martini Bonadeo, University of Padua) |
| 2:30 | Paper 5: Hang time: Gambling on the future in late medieval Italy (Karla Mallette, University of Michigan) |
| 3:00 | Paper 6: Communicating in Manuscript, Miscommunicating in Print: The Siege of Curzola (1571) and Its Media Aftermath (Ivan Lupić, University of Rijeka) |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:45 | Discussion 2 (Paper 4, 5, 6) – Chaired by Sarah Marie Leitenberger (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 4:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 | Reception |