Lecture by Gisèle Sapiro: Intermediaries, Translators, and Mediators. The Making of World Authorship
Tuesday, 10 September 2024, 18:00 (CET)
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Gartensaal
Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
Who creates the world author? While Foucault’s question „What’s an author?“ opened the path to the study of censorship and copyright, Bourdieu’s interrogation, „Who creates the creator?“, turned the attention to the network of cultural intermediaries who produce writers and artists, especially publishers and gallerists. Like at the national level, world authorship is shaped by a network of individuals and institutions.
The theoretical framework proposed here will distinguish different categories of agents which take part in the (inter)mediation process: intermediaries, translators, and mediators. These distinctions allow us to better circumscribe labour division in the two production and reception stages. However, making world authorship requires specific skills and agents that specialize more or less in intermediation across cultures. These specificities appear when one focuses on translation, which has become, after 1850, the main mode of transcultural circulation of literary works, in close relation to the nationalization of culture.
The event is part of the workshop “Controversial Literary Prizes”.
SPEAKER
Gisèle Sapiro, Professor of Sociology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
ORGANISER & MODERATOR
Paul Buckermann, Thyssen@KWI-Fellow
PARTICIPATION
Participation is free of charge. There is no registration necessary.
ORGANISATION
The event is organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI).
About the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI):
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany, is an interdisciplinary research centre following the tradition of international Institutes for Advanced Study. In its role as an inter-university institution connecting the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Technological University Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen, the institute works together with researchers and scientists from its neighbouring universities as well as other partners from the federal state NRW and places in- and outside of Germany. Within the Ruhr area, the KWI is a place to share and discuss the questions and results of ambitious research with interested parties from the city and the greater region. Currently, work at the KWI focusses on the following areas: “cultural studies of science and science policy making”, “sociology of literature and culture”, “science communication”, “visual literacy” and a “teaching lab”. Projects in the established research field “culture of communication”, as well as individual projects, will be continued.
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Weitere Informationen:
https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/intermediaries-translators-and-mediators/ Event on the KWI website
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