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.uk/people/marta-arnaldi

Eivind Engebretsen is Professor of Health Humanities, University of Oslo, Circle U Chair of Global Health, and Executive Chairman of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE): https://www.med.uio.no/sustainit/english/people/adm/eivinden/

Charles Forsdick is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge, a Member of the Academy of Europe, and the current Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy (2023): https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/professor-charles-forsdick

John Ødemark is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo and leader of the project Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/cultural-history-and-museology/tenured/johntod/index.html