题目：The Ethical Foundations of Literary Multilingualism and Translation

时间：2023年5月26日上午10:00-11:30

地点：外国语学院903报告厅

主讲人：Arvi Sepp

【主讲人简介】

Arvi Sepp studied German and English Philology, Sociology, and Literary Theory in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve. He is Professor of Language Studies, Literary Studies, and Translation Studies at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and Research Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies of the University of Antwerp. His research interests center on comparative literature, twentieth-century German (Jewish) literature, literary translation, migration and exile, multilingual literature. He has published widely on Translation Studies, Autobiography Studies, German-Jewish Literature, and Literary Theory and many books.

【讲座摘要】

In this lecture, we will discuss the ethical foundations of literary multilingualism and translation. The function of multilingual literature is not primarily pragmatic, but rather aesthetic and ethical. The discussion of questions of multilingualism thus has a distinct ethical dimension: one is born into a family, economic and national circumstances that determine the linguistic development and future of the individual and of the community. The speaker’s linguistic habitus includes inseparable technical and social competences that determine the ability to speak and the ability to articulate oneself in a particular, socially required or appropriate way. In this context, we will consider questions of translatability, fidelity, the hierarchical division between original texts and their translations, and the biased of translation.