Conference programme

Registration is now open for the conference

"The Philosophy of Translation and the Translation of Philosophy"

hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Zurich

Programme:

Monday, 17th February 2014
University of Zurich, Room KO2-F-174


18:00 - 18:15 Welcome Address

18:15 - 19:15 Keynote: Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich):
Translation, Incommensurability and Indeterminacy

19:15 - 19:45 - Discussion

Tuesday,  18th February 2014
University of Zurich, Room KOL-G-212

10:00 - 10:45 Vasso Kindi (University of Athens):
Incommensurability and Translation

10:55 - 11:40 Simon J. Evnine (University of Miami):
Translation and the Ontology of Language

11:50 - 12:35 Gabriele M. Mras (WU/University of Vienna):
Where There Is No Real Question of Choice: Translation and Correctness

12:35 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45 Piers Rawling (Florida State University):
Have Our Beliefs Got Lost in Translation?

14:55 - 15:40 Stefan Riegelnik (University of Zurich):
Intermediaries and the Object of Translation

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 Mélika Ouelbani (University of Tunis):
Can One Learn to Translate as One Learns to "Play the Piano"?

16:55 - 17:35 Susanne Huber (University of Zurich):
Translating Pictures: a Wittgensteinian Approach to the Question of Translation


Wednesday, 19th February 2014
University of Zurich, Room KOL-G-212

10:00 - 10:45 Joachim Schulte (University of Zurich):
The Impossible Business of Translating Philosophical Works

10:55 - 11:40 Joachim Adler (University of Zurich):
Conceptual Clarification and its Language

11:50 - 12:35 Nenad Miscevic (CEU/University of Maribor):
Translating Pejoratives

12:35 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45 Georg Bossong (University of Zurich):
Typology and Creativity in Translation: Expressing Philosophy in Indo-European and Semitic

14:55 - 15:40 Philip Wilson (Inönü University):
Maybe a Completely Different Poem: a View from Literary Translation

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 Piotr Stalmaszyk (University of Lodz):
Proper Names in Translation: Philosophy of Language Meets Linguistics

16:45 - 17:00 Concluding Remarks

Venue:
University of Zurich
Rämistrasse 71
8006 Zurich

Conference: "The Philosophy of Translation and the Translation of Philosophy"

The Institute of Philosophy of the University of Zurich is organizing a Conference and a Graduate Workshop on 

"The Philosophy of Translation and the Translation of Philosophy"

Dates
Conference: Monday, 17th February - Wednesday, 19th February 2014
Workshop: Thursday, 20th February

Place
University of Zurich, Zurich

The conference aims to examine the concept of translation and its place
in contemporary analytic philosophy. Although the notion of translation
has played an important role throughout the history of analytic
philosophy, the notion itself has not been explored sufficiently.
The conference intends to address the following questions: What does it
mean to translate something, in particular regarding different theories
of meaning? What are the criteria for the correctness of a translation? Are
conceptual clarifications translatable or are they confined to a
language? What is the role of linguistic kinship? Is the translation of
philosophical works special?

Speakers:

Georg Bossong (University of Zurich)
Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
Susanne Huber (University of Zurich)
Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich)
Vasso Kindi (University of Athens)
Gabriele M. Mras (University of Vienna, WU Vienna)
Nenad Miscevic (CEU, University of Maribor)
Mélika Ouelbani (University of Paris) 
Piers Rawling (Florida State University)
Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Lodz)
Joachim Schulte (University of Zurich)
Philip Wilson (University of East Anglia/Inönü University)

Call for Abstracts

Graduate Workshop: "The Philosophy of Translation and the Translation of Philosophy"

with 
Vasso Kindi (University of Athens)
Joachim Schulte (University of Zurich)

We invite submissions from PhD candidates studying philosophy or/and
linguistics for presentations at the graduate workshop on this topic to
be held on 20th February 2014 at the University of Zurich. Please submit
abstracts of no more than 300 words suitable for 30 minutes
presentations to translation2014@philos.uzh.ch. The deadline for
submission is 15th December 2013. Notifications of acceptance will be
sent by 31st December 2013. 


Conference and workshop organizers:
Joachim Adler joachim.adler@philos.uzh.ch
Stefan Riegelnik stefan.riegelnik@philos.uzh.ch

The conference and the workshop are sponsored by the Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNF), the Institute of Philosophy of the University
of Zurich and the Doctoral program "Philosophy: Language, Mind and Practice".
General questions concerning the conference and the workshop should be
directed in the first instance to translation2014@philos.uzh.ch.