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09/17/2024 - 09/17/2024 | Essen

Inermediaries, Translators, and Mediators: The Making of World Authorship

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.

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)

MODERATOR & ORGANISER
Paul Buckermann, Thyssen@KWI-Fellow

This talk is part of the workshop „Controversial Literary Prizes“.

Information on participating / attending:

Date:

09/17/2024 18:00 - 09/17/2024 20:00

Event venue:

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Goethestr. 31
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, all interested persons

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Media and communication sciences, Philosophy / ethics, Social studies

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture

Entry:

07/12/2024

Sender/author:

Miriam Wienhold

Department:

Pressestelle

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event77327


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