Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University and the 2023–24 Fulbright-Karl Franzens University Graz Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies, is giving a public presentation entitled "Living in Translation."

Recent research in translation studies states that in this age of globalization, migration and translation are deeply connected in which participants translate between languages, cultures, habits, and thoughts. And yet we still witness an aggressive push away from a language studies approach in translation, claiming that it is too prescriptive in its theory. This presentation will revisit the discussion about the impact of the so-called “language proper” on the "cultural turn." Specifically, it raises concerns about the convenient misunderstanding between the concepts of "language" and "linguistics" in the history of translation studies. How do we define language outside of linguistics?

No registration is required for this free event.