TRANSLATION AND THE SCIENCES
October 21, 2011
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities
Please email Deborah Coen by October 17 to register. Papers will be pre-circulated.
SCHEDULE
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9:30
Coffee, Welcome, and Introduction
10:00 - 12:00
Historians, Translators, and Ideas of "Chinese Science"
Benjamin Elman (Princeton), "Tradutore, traditore: Constructing Science Via Translation in China, 1600-1900" Download paper
Carla Nappi (University of British Columbia), "Poison and Oil: Translating the Translators in Early Modern Science" Download paper
Comment: Grace Shen (Fordham)
1:30 - 3:00
Translations, Modernities, and Reinventions of Tradition
Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), "Sanskrit Afterworlds: Remaking the Self in Colonial India" Download paper
Marwa Elshakry (Columbia), "Darwin in Translation" Download paper
3:15 - 4:00
Global Scientific Communication
Michael Gordin (Princeton), "The Dostoevsky Machine: Early Machine Translation and the Crisis of Scientific Language" Download paper
4:00 - 5:00
Comment and Closing Discussion
Lydia Liu (Columbia)