Translation and cosmopolitics. Tensions and Detours in the Construction of the Common

Organisation: Constanza Solórzano, Laila Algaves Nuñez and Mariana Varela Câmara (IFILNOVA).

This study group investigates translation as a device for negotiating boundaries and as a world-making gesture, one that is decisive in the construction and sharing of aesthetic regimes, a multispecies democracy, and perhaps even the earthly surface itself. In each session, texts will be brought together that inspire a double movement: on the one hand, they open the discussion through key concepts related to this theme—such as hospitality, cosmopolitics, and the very definition of facts in scientific practice; on the other hand, they provisionally ground it in concrete situations in which translational practice becomes necessary: a socio-onto-legal conflict over the protection of caribou in Quebec, a fictional tale that stages the writing of an octopus, and the (once again highly relevant) images of the Moon.

Schedule of the First Sessions

14 September, 19 October and 23 November.

More information available in Portuguese.