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.