Relevant Links
- Translation and Medical Humanities Conference
- Dr Marta Arnaldi
- Prof John Ødemark
- Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
- Medical Humanities
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education
- The Polyphony
- Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation
- The Research Council of Norway
- Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
- Humanities Division
- The Campaign
- Welcome to the University
This series of video podcasts highlights some of the key moments of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference which took place at the University of Oxford on 5-6 September 2023. This international conference explored, for the first time and in an interdisciplinary fashion, the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; it invoked the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and it reappraised the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems.
Organised by Dr Marta Arnaldi and Prof John Ødemark in collaboration with Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation. With the contribution of Medical Humanities, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford; Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford; the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo; and The Polyphony, Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Funded by Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, and The Research Council of Norway.
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | A Vital Practice: Translating Narrative Prothesis in Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir | Magdala Jeudy demonstrates her practice of translation with an episode from Emile Zola's L'Assommoir that raises many questions about conscious and unconscious translation practices. | Magdala Lissa Jeudy | 12 Feb 2024 | |
| 12 | Conference Highlights | A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023 | Trish Greenhalgh, Nicola Gardini, Charles Briggs, Mona Baker | 04 Jan 2024 | |
| 11 | Into the Translation Zone | Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, our beliefs of what counts as science, practice, and/or knowledge. | Marta Arnaldi | 04 Jan 2024 | |
| 10 | I shiver a little, I shudder a little:” Gist Translation and Uncanny Bodily Knowledges | A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance. | Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé | 04 Jan 2024 | |
| 9 | Working Knowledge and the Duality of Uncertainty: Translating Heterogeneous Knowledge Networks in Long Covid Clinics | In this keynote speech, Trish Greenhalgh uses ideas of translation to analyse, make sense of, and bring under a unified lens the heterogenous knowledge networks at play in long-covid clinics. | Trish Greenhalgh | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 8 | Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities | The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields. | Marta Arnaldi, Charles Briggs, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 7 | Translating Symbolism into Precision Medicine | A fascinating exploration of the likenesses between cellular and verbal communication, and their impact on the insurgence of disease. | Banafshé Larijani | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 6 | Health Rhymes with Death | Nicola Gardini challenges the idea that health is the opposite of disease. | Nicola Gardini | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 5 | Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions | 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, Eivind Engebretsen, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 4 | Health, Ecology and Activism: The Dark Side of Translation | Mona Baker’s key note examines the work of recently founded groups of volunteer translators who focus on the intersection of health and the environment. | Mona Baker | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 3 | Medical Humanities’ Translational Core: Remodeling the Field | Marta Arnaldi helps us imagine medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field. She envisions ways of thinking translationally about health and disease, while also pinpointing potential risks and likely areas of failure. | Marta Arnaldi | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2 | Bodies in Translation: Towards a Translational Medical Humanities | Professor John Ødemark outlines the key ideas underpinning the Bodies in Translation project and its role in shaping a translational medical humanities imagination. | John Ødemark | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 1 | Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine | This keynote lecture approaches issues of translation by decolonizing dominant conceptions of language and medicine. It proposes collaborations aimed at creating incommunicability-free zone that promote communicative justice in health and medicine. | Charles Briggs | 03 Jan 2024 |