Translation and Medical Humanities Oxford University

Magdala Jeudy demonstrates her practice of translation with an episode from Emile Zola's L'Assommoir that raises many questions about conscious and unconscious translation practices.

A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023 Funded by Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, and The Research Council of Norway.

Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, our beliefs of what counts as science, practice, and/or knowledge. Marta Arnaldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo.

A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance. Appearing from distinct cultural traditions, but coalescing in the tradition of scholarship, we not only recognise but rely on gist to navigate the often-opaque waters of intercultural flows. A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance.

Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and Arts at the University of Glasgow where she is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies.
Tawona Sitholé is a poet, playwright, storyteller and musician. He is currently UNESCO artist-in-residence at the University of Glasgow, where he is also a Research Associate for MIDEQ.

In this keynote speech, Trish Greenhalgh uses ideas of translation to analyse, make sense of, and bring under a unified lens the heterogenous knowledge networks at play in long-covid clinics. Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians: https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/trish-greenhalgh

The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields. At the end of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference (https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/translation-and-medical-humanities.html) at the University of Oxford, Marta Arnaldi, Charles Briggs, Charles Forsdick and John Ødemark reflect on its legacy.

Marta Arnaldi is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/marta-arnaldi

Charles Briggs is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley: https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/charles-l-briggs

Charles Forsdick is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge, a Member of the Academy of Europe, and the current Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy (2023): https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/professor-charles-forsdick

John Ødemark is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo and leader of the project Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/cultural-history-and-museology/tenured/johntod/index.html