Research Outputs

EVENTS

Preliminary Events (prior to launch of project)

• 13-17 Sept. 2021: Karen Bennett – ‘Epistemic Translation: Towards an ecology of knowledges’, 7th IATIS Conference on The Cultural Ecology of Translation, Barcelona

• 31st March-2nd April 2022: Panel on Epistemic Translation, with papers by Karen Bennett (‘Introducing EPISTRAN: Translation and the Ecology of Knowledges’); Marco Neves (‘Translating science into literature: Reading Ian McEwan’s novels as instances of epistemic translation’) and Yolanda Moreno-Bello (‘Transnationality of belief systems in sexual and reproductive health: Nigerian spiritual and scientific paradigms’) at the 42nd Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, Coimbra.

Phase One: April 2023 to September 2024

• 13th-14th July 2023: internal on-line meeting for the presentation and discussion of individual subprojects with the international consultants and other members of the team.

• 14th -16th December 2023: International Conference: Epistemic Translation: Towards an Ecology of Knowledges. NOVA-FCSH, Lisbon 

• 25th January 2024: Epistemic Translation in Economics and Law, guest panel, held in the context of the New Voices VII Symposium, with papers by Fabrizio Esposito of NOVA Law School (‘Fairness and Allocative Efficiency: Towards a Rosetta Stone’) and Doron Teichman, Judge Basil Wunsch Chair in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (‘Motivation, Interpretation and Translation’)

• 20th September 2024: ‘The Jesuits as (inter-)epistemic translators in the Americas’, Karen Bennett, paper at conference Synchronizing History: The Transplantation of European Ideas in the Americas, Palermo (18th-21st September)

Phase Two: From November 2024

• 6th November 2024: Speed Seminar at NOVA Faculty of Law, Presentation of the EPISTRAN project by Marco Neves and Karen Bennett. 18.30

• 8th November 2024: ‘Tracing nomenclature in translation: How the antiphlogiston paradigm made its way into Anglophone scientific discourse (and stayed there) – Jennifer Dobson, paper delivered at the international conference Relational Forms IX: Sustainable Objects, Porto.

• 29th November 2024: ‘Translating Sites – a Case study within the framework of the EPISTRAN project’, Mira Czarnecka, "Noc Anglistow" [The English Philologists' Night], Poland

• 21st November 2024: Launch of Online Lecture Series: Call for papers open.

• 9-12 January 2025: Interepistemic Translation: How we Make Sense of the World, panel at MLA Conference, New Orleans, convened by Douglas Robinson, with papers by Karen Bennett, Bridget Bartlett and Xiaorui Sun

PUBLICATIONS

• Special Issue: (Inter-) Epistemic Translation, Special Issue of Translation Matters, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2024, edited by Karen Bennett and Marco Neves, with articles by Douglas Robinson, Pedro Navarro, Mohammad Aboomar, Maria Cármen África Vidal Claramonte, Margherita Zanoletti, Xiaorui Sun, Angelo Cattaneo, Piotr Blumczynski and Kobus Marais, and book reviews by Jennifer Dobson, Pedro Navarro, Rodrigo Lacerda and Paloa Mancosu.

• Journal Article: ‘Epistemic Translation: Towards an ecology of knowledges’, Karen Bennett, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, published online in January 2024 https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2023.2294123

• Journal Article: ‘Popular Science as inter-epistemic translation: A case study’. Karen Bennett, The Translator, published online in July 2024 https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2024.2350221

• Book/Monograph: Translating Indigenous Knowledges: Towards a Sensuous Translation, Maria Cármen Africa Vidal Claramonte, Routledge (December 2024)

• Journal Article: ‘Epistemic translation in law and economics: a tentative typology’ by Fabrizio Esposíto, Translation Matters Vol. 6 No. 2 (Autumn 2024) 

• Special Issue: Translating Systems of Knowledge: Beyond Resemiotization. Special issue of Cultus (forthcoming), edited by Giuseppina Di Gregorio and Marco Neves. Call for papers open

• Book/Joint-Authored: Interepistemic Translation: How We Make Sense of the World by Douglas Robinson and Xiaorui Sun, submitted to University of Chicago Press.

• Book/Edited Volume: Translational Epistemologies in the Medical Humanities: Interdisciplinary Histories, Concepts and Experiments, edited by John Ødemark et al. (in preparation)

• Book/Edited Volume: (Inter-)Epistemic Translation: New Pathways. To be submitted to Routledge series Creative, Social and Transnational Perspectives on Translation. Call for papers open.