Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions

The speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities independently and collaboratively, as separate areas and as a unified field. 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 Eivind Engebretsen is Professor of Health Humanities, University of Oslo, Circle U Chair of Global Health, and Executive Chairman of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE): https://www.med.uio.no/sustainit/english/people/adm/eivinden/ 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

Om Podcasten

This series of video podcasts highlights some of the key moments of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference which took place at the University of Oxford on 5-6 September 2023. This international conference explored, for the first time and in an interdisciplinary fashion, the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; it invoked the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and it reappraised the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems. Organised by Dr Marta Arnaldi and Prof John Ødemark in collaboration with Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation. With the contribution of Medical Humanities, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford; Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford; the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo; and The Polyphony, Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. 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.