Europe: The World of Yesterday?

Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg

5/6 November 2011

“I have nothing more of my past with me than what I have retained in my mind.”
This is how Stefan Zweig described the situation in Brazilian exile in the
early 1940s, in which he wrote down his memories of a lost Europe. The Europe
remembered by Zweig as “the world of yesterday” is – in a different form –
long since resurrected. Yet its languages seem to be failing again, where
people are involved, who often have little of their past with them and whose
present is marked by all kinds of uncertainties, whether on the way or already
in the midst of Europe: people in exile, refugees, migrants, as Zweig was.
Perhaps the languages of Europe therefore need a translation that is something
other than a translation into themselves (and one another), specifically an
opening into the languages of exile and migration, into the languages of the
world. If they refuse this – who knows whether Europe will not, for this very
reason, prove once again to be the world of yesterday?

Participants: Ibrahim Cindark, Mascha Dabić, Waltraud Kolb, Peter Waterhouse,
Rubia Salgado, Gabriele Slezak.

Following a workshop with experts from various language studies fields
(translation studies, sociolinguistics, German as a second language, etc.),
there will be a public panel discussion on the topic on the evening of 5th
November.

“**Which language does Europe speak? An Exile's Perspective**.”

Speakers: Boris Buden, Ibrahim Cindark, Waltraud Kolb.

Workshop in the framework of the project [Europe as a Translational Space: The
Poltics of Heterolinguality][1] in cooperation with [Stefan Zweig Centre
Salzburg][2]

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