18:30, HHU, 23.21.02.22
Guest Lecture by Dr. Sharon Deane-Cox (Strathclyde) as Part of the Interdisciplinary Lecture Series “Translation 2.0”
Moderation: Dr. Hannah Pardey (HHU)
Drawing on the concept of 'mediated witnessing', this paper aims to set out the often complex ways in which translation and digital technologies come together in French memorial museums, shaping how lived experiences of the Second World War are communicated to English-speaking visitors. Selected case studies will illustrate how translated audio-guides in the physical museum space, as well as subtitled videos and other multilingual content in the virtual museum space, function to (re)position visitors in relation to the past on display. Particular attention will be paid to immediate questions of translation quality, voice and empathy, and to contextual issues of ideology and economics, in order to demonstrate how translation is entangled in and central to visitor engagement on cognitive and affective levels.
Sharon Deane-Cox is senior lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Her current interdisciplinary research focus is on how translation mediates memory and trauma on textual, interpersonal, intersemiotic, and ethical levels. She has published on retranslation, Holocaust testimony translation, memorial museum audio-guide translation, and heritage translation. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory (2022) which includes her work on cross-sectoral collaboration in the heritage space, and of Translation, Interpreting and Technological Change: Innovations in Research, Practice and Training (Bloomsbury, 2024). She is also Associate Editor of the journal Translation Studies, as well as a member of the Young Academy of Scotland and the IATIS Regional Workshops Committee.
Please note that Dr. Sharon Deane-Cox will join us online. If you wish to participate online as well, please send an email to cts_dus(at)hhu.de.