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 4th, 2024 2m 8s

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, Unive

Into the Translation Zone

Jan 4th, 2024 3m 41s

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 i

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

Jan 4th, 2024 16m 21s

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 flo

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

Jan 3rd, 2024 39m 34s

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 Heal

Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities

Jan 3rd, 2024 12m 45s

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://

Translating Symbolism into Precision Medicine

Jan 3rd, 2024 15m 23s

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 f

Health Rhymes with Death

Jan 3rd, 2024 18m 45s

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. C

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

Jan 3rd, 2024 1h 16m

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

Health, Ecology and Activism: The Dark Side of Translation

Jan 3rd, 2024 28m 29s

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 wo

Medical Humanities’ Translational Core: Remodeling the Field

Jan 3rd, 2024 4m 7s

Marta Arnaldi helps us imagine medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field. She envisions ways of thinking translationally about health and disease, while also pinpointing potential risks and likely areas of failure. Marta Arnal

Bodies in Translation: Towards a Translational Medical Humanities

Jan 3rd, 2024 1m 54s

Professor John Ødemark outlines the key ideas underpinning the Bodies in Translation project and its role in shaping a translational medical humanities imagination. More details about the Bodies in Translation project, can be found here: https:

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

Jan 3rd, 2024 39m 41s

This keynote lecture approaches issues of translation by decolonizing dominant conceptions of language and medicine. It proposes collaborations aimed at creating incommunicability-free zone that promote communicative justice in health and medic

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