Section 3: Cultural Affiliations and Society (director: Peter Burschel)

Present-day discussion of ‘cultural translation’ in the historical cultural sciences is rarely limited to the translation relationships between texts and languages. On the contrary, cultural translation is understood as a reciprocal – albeit often enough asymmetrical – conveyance process that can encompass human beings and their affiliations as much as it can aesthetic, emotional or ritual practices. From this perspective, cultural translation makes differences visible and productive without doing away with them. Cultural translation is cultural ‘borrowing’. Yet this also means that when cultural translation is discussed in the historical cultural sciences these days, it is in the sense of a dynamic and creative medium of cultural interpenetration, cultural conglomeration, cultural transfer and cultural conflict. Engagement with this section permits the uncovering of ambiguous dynamics of inter- and transcultural translation processes and thus an emphatic demonstration of the fact that European expansion brought in its wake ‘contact zones’ that leave no doubt: it was not only Europeans who mastered the art of translating foreign cultures.

Projects

Prof Dr Antje Flüchter
Cultural Translation as Multidirectional Process – Roberto Nobili as Missionary Translator between Cultures, Religions and Institutions

Prof Dr Mark Häberlein, Dr Paula Manstetten
Transfer Processes between East and West from an Actor-Centered Perspective: Salomon Negri as Translator and Cultural Broker between the Arab World and Latin Europe in the Late 17^th and Early 18^th Century

Prof Dr Dagmar Schäfer, Dr Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
Translation Terroirs – East Asia between Indigenous and Western Cartographic Languages

Dr Irena Fliter
Flows and Frictions: The Camondo Family as Cultural Translators between the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the 18^th Century

Prof Dr Rebekka Voß, Avi Siluk
Transcultural Yiddish Translation between Christians and Jews in the Context of the 18^th Century Pietist Mission to the Jews of Germany

PD Dr Susanne Greilich, Prof Dr Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Dimensions of Translation in the Context of French Encyclopaedism in the Age of Enlightenment (1680—1800): Knowledge Transfer, Mediators, Intercultural Processes of Appropriation and Adaption