CommArts Seminar | Against Ion's Chain - Translatability in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 12 June 2015 - Friday, 12 June 2015
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Room:
- 601, Level 6
- UQ Location:
- Michie Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://communication-arts.uq.edu.au/event/1250/against-ions-chain-translatability-gramscis-prison-notebooks-name-womens
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Stormy Wehi
- Phone:
- 51412
- Email:
- s.wehi@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Communication and Arts
Event Description
- Full Description:
- This paper explores the concept of translatability developed in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. Although it is only recently that scholars have turned their attention to this theme, translation in both linguistic and cultural senses constituted an enduring interest for Gramsci, from his university study of historical linguistics onwards.
The concepts of translation and Gramsci's distinctive notion of translatability are developed in at least three significant directions in the Prison Notebooks: first, an enquiry into the possibility of translating political strategies and techniques from one socio-political formation and conjucture to another; second, research on the theoretical foundations of an historicist theory of the form of translation between different cultures; and third, the question of the possibility of non-essentialist theory of translatability, including a critique of the notion of the untranslatable.
Dr Peter Thomas has studied and worked in the School of EMSAH at the University of Queensland, Freie Universität Berlin, L’Università “Federico II”, Naples, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Vienna. He has previously been a research fellow at the Finnish Academy, Helsinki, and the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and has been a recipient of Australian, British, German, Italian and Dutch research fellowships. He has published widely on Marxist political theory and philosophy (particularly Gramsci), the history of political thought and the history of philosophy. He has also translated the work of Antonio Negri, Slavoj Zizek and Mario Tronti, among others. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, and co-editor of the Historical Materialism Book Series. He also coordinates the English translation and publicati on of articles from Das historisch-kritische Wörterbuch des Marxismus (HKWM) in the pages of Historical Materialism.
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