Dear All, The third event in the Cambridge Conversations in Translation (CCiT) series -- Translation and the Sacred Text -- will take place at the following time/venue:
* Wednesday 11th November, 2.30 to 4.30 * Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road This panel discussion will explore the philosophical and linguistic possibilities of translating sacred texts, and the role that theological considerations play in producing such translations. The discussion will be prompted by initial thoughts from the following speakers: Thedor Dunkelgrün (CRASSH, Cambridge) Simone Kotva (Divinity, Cambridge) Tony Street (Divinity, Cambridge) This will be another truly interdisciplinary and thought-provoking session, with ample opportunity for questions and debate, and more informal exchanges over tea and coffee afterwards. Do please join us if you can. The CCiT Convenor Team ******************************* Theodor Dunkelgrün is a historian of early modern and modern European cultural and intellectual history. He works primarily on the history of biblical scholarship, with special focus on the study of the Hebrew Bible from its passage into print in the late 15th century to the emergence of the first critical editions at the end of the 19th century. He currently holds a five-year post-doctoral fellowship at CRASSH on the ERC-funded project "The Bible and Antiquity in the 19th Century." A native of the Netherlands, Theo was educated at the Universities of Leiden, Chicago, Oxford and Princeton. At Cambridge he lectures and supervises in the Faculties of History and Divinity, and is Research Associate of St John’s College, an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, a member of the Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies and of the Centre for Material Texts. Simone Kotva recently completed her PhD at the Faculty of Divinity. Her research traces the influence of nineteenth-century Romantic vitalism on contemporary thought. Her work has appeared in Theory, Culture & Society and Radical Orthodoxy. As a translator, she works primarily with Swedish poetry and non-fiction. Tony Street is the Assistant Director of Research in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity. His current research interests include Islamic philosophy, Avicenna, post-Avicennian philosophers and theologians, and Medieval Arabic logic. ******************************************************************************************** Miss Charlie Evans, Secretarial Assistant Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA Tel: (01223) (3)35090, email: [email protected] ****************************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
