“Translations: People, Texts & Objects in Motion Across the Early Global World”– MEMSA Graduate Student Conference

In his landmark 1611 dictionary, the Tesoro de la le lengua castellana, the Castilian linguist Sebastián de Covarrubias noted that the verbs “to translate” in Spanish, traducir and trasladar, possessed both the meaning of words moving between languages and of movement of objects across space. Translation involved people, words, objects, images, and ideas in motion across spaces, boundaries, languages, and cultures in the medieval & early modern world. How do you understand translation? What was lost, gained, or hidden in translation? How did translation involve active processes of making and unmaking, (re)interpretation, and (mis)understandings? How did institutions, states, and empires attempt to control, limit, or censor translation? Who were the intermediary agents involved in rendering translations? How did translation function across material forms and the visual world, beyond solely the textual? How did movement itself transform the ideas, objects, words, or images that travelled?

Keynote Speaker: Antonio M. Zaldívar (CSU San Marcos)

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Event Program

Organized by the Officers of MEMSA: Sofía Yazpik, Miranda Heaner, Hugo Peralta-Ramírez, and Chase Smith.

Sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies