This conference explores translation as a dynamic process shaping cultural, social, and legal exchanges. Beyond linguistic adaptation, translation involves the transformation of meanings, norms, and discourses across different contexts. From avant-garde movements to feminist activism and legal transplants, translation is an interactive and often contested process influenced by power hierarchies and historical legacies.

Focusing on transregional entanglements - with contributions addressing the Americas, Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - the conference brings together scholars from multiple disciplines. The panels will address themes including travelling concepts and knowledge transfer in legal, political and cultural discourses and practices, narrating identities and the struggle for representation, and contestations over artistic movements.

The keynote speakers will take up these themes, with Liliana Gómez addressing encounters between art, witnesses and civil society in the courtrooms of Balkan and Latin American (post)conflict societies. Lauri Mälksoo will examine role of international treaties in East-West relations, exploring the longer history of treaties involving Russia and European nations. A panel discussion on Area Studies as the Art and Science of Translation provides context for considering the central themes of the conference within an area studies framework. This field is crucial to the research done in Regensburg on the theoretical and empirical dimensions of translation and transfer in an interconnected world marked by frictions and turbulence.

The event marks the concluding conference of the first funding phase (2019–25) and the opening of the second phase (2024–28) of the ScienceCampus.

Wednesday, 23 April 2025
H24, Vielberth Building, University of Regensburg

16:00 Welcome Addresses
Udo Hebel (President of the University of Regensburg)
Ulf Brunnbauer (Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg)
Cindy Wittke (IOS) and Anne Brüske (University of Regensburg; Conference co-organizers)

16:30 Keynote 1 Travelling and Transforming Concepts across Borders and Regions
Chair: Rike Krämer-Hoppe (Regensburg)
Magdalena Modrzejewska (Krakow) When Non-Mainstream Western Scholars Influenced Soviet (International) Law: The case of Alejandro Alvarez and Carl Schmitt
Livia Solana Pfuetzenreiter (Paraná) Dissemination and Transfers of Knowledge
Chair: Jochen Mecke (Regensburg)
Angela Calderón (Leipzig) Positioning Ideas and Art: Frictions of the local and global
Chair: Sabine Koller (Regensburg)
Piotr Słodkowski (Warsaw) Struggles for and through Representation
Chair: Tatiana Klepikova (Regensburg)
Lucía Stecher (Santiago de Chile) Subverting Norms for LGBTQ+ Activism: The “InVisible” Festival and the production of mobile queer spaces in Tbilisi

Friday, 25 April 2025
Room 319, IOS, Altes Finanzamt, Landshuter Str. 4

08:45 Panel 5 Legal Structures of Influence: The transplantation of Russian trade law and its colonial impact on Central Asia
Nargiza Ramazonova (Regensburg) Interpreting Imperialism and Multipolarity in the Periphery: Mexican intellectuals and the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
Jobst Welge (Leipzig) Translating Books about the Russo-Ukrainian War: Visual storytelling beyond borders
Karolina Kluczewska (Bonn) | A Two-way Translation: International circulation of knowledge about the family in Poland

13:00 Concluding Discussion
Chairs: Anne Brüske (Regensburg) and Cindy Wittke (Regensburg)


Source: Conference | Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 13.03.2025, https://www.connections.clio-online.net/event/id/event-153823.