Saturday, 5 November 2005: 09.00-10.15
METM 05, Barcelona, Spain
Translation and/as Dialog
Panel organizer: Susan M. DiGiacomo, PhD in cultural anthropology and freelance translator and author’s editor specializing in anthropology and biomedical texts; Departments of Anthropology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Panelists:
Josep Maria Comelles, MD, PhD, anthropologist and
psychiatrist and Angel Martínez Hernáez,
PhD, anthropologist, both of Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain;
Oriol Pi-Sunyer, PhD, anthropologist, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA; Maria del Mar Pérez Iribarne,
MD, geneticist, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain; and Antoni
Serrano, psychiatrist, Serveis de Salut Mental, Centre de Salut
Mental, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain
This panel brings together the translator/organizer and translated authors
to discuss the implications of translation as critical reading and dialogic
practice. Dialogue takes place not only on the interpersonal level, but between
languages, cultures, disciplines (anthropology and medicine), and intellectual/discursive
styles. Issues of interest include validity, fidelity, authority and expertise,
voice and authorship.