Seminars and Colloquia
Humanities and Social Sciences
Found in Translation: Revisiting 'translation' in the everyday
Fri, Aug 17, 2018,
12:00 PM
at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)
Dr. Chandrani Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Savitribai Phule Pune University
The presentation makes a claim for the recent developments in translation studies that has moved beyond a mere linguistic understanding of the discipline to include ideas and concepts that were hitherto not understood as translation. The presentation proposes to address what is 'found' in translation as opposed to the more widely accepted notion of 'lost' in translation. Using examples from a wide variety of fields, the presentation harps on the need for understanding the enabling aspect of such use of translation in the world we inhabit.
Dr. Chatterjee has a BA and MA in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Bombay. She was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship for research and teaching to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA 2012-13 and the NIDA Fellowship to Italy in 2014 and 2018 for research and teaching respectively. She has taught and researched in Germany, Canada, Italy and the US. Research interests include Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, History of the Book, Shakespeare Studies, Genre Studies and Gender Studies among others.
