Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations 1680-1830
Organized by Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes
Co-sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
April 12-13, 2013
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
PROGRAM
Friday, April 12
9:00 a.m. Van transports participants from hotel to Clark Library
9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m. Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session I: Knowledge Transfer and the Compiler-Translator’s Challenge
Moderator: Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes
Savary Des Bruslons’ Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce: Translations and Adaptations
Alain Cernuschi, University of Lausanne
The Cultural and Esthetic Challenges of Translating English and German Articles on the Performing Arts in French Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias
11:30 a.m. Coffee break
11:50 a.m. Session II: Adapting, Adopting, Educating, and Training: Crafting Knowledge Transfer in the Dutch Republic
Moderator: Gail Hart, University of California, Irvine
Ina U. Paul, Freie University Berlin & Bundeswehr University Munich
Camels in the Alps. Translations, transfer and adoption processes in Dutch Encyclopedias
Arianne Baggerman, University of Amsterdam
Long haul: The Troublesome Publication of the first Dutch Complete Description of Trades and Occupations (1788-1820)
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Session III: Translating and Transmitting Specialization: Transnational Knowledge, the Encyclopédie méthodique, and Late Eighteenth-Century Compilations
Moderator: Cynthia Stanphill, University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Georgia State University
Translations in the Encyclopédie méthodique
Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
Branding Knowledge through Transfer and Translation: The Encyclopédie méthodique in Italy and Spain
Luigi Delia, Univerité Jean Moulin Lyon 3
The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770-1789)
3:45 p.m. Coffee break
4:00 p.m. Session IV: Knowledge Transfer for Popular Audiences in Nineteenth-Century Compilations
Moderator: Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles
Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile, University of Potsdam
Transfer and Popularization of Knowledge: Brockhaus’ Conversations-Lexicon in the early 19th Century
Jeff Loveland, University of Cincinnati
Two French Konversationslexika of the 1830s and 1840s: The Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture and the Encyclopédie des gens du monde
5:15 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Van transports participants to hotel
Saturday, April 13
9:00 a.m. Van transports participants from hotel to Clark Library
9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m. Session V: Shapes, Shadows and Shades of Gray: Form and Content in Transculturation
Moderators: Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes
Susan Greilich, Regensburg University
"Compiling based on translations - Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's work on the Histoire des deux Indes"
Ulrich Schneider, Leipzig University (paper to be read by Clorinda Donato)
Johann Heinrich Zedler and the Challenge of Creating a Proper Encyclopedic Article in Mid-Eighteenth Century Germany
Karen Struve, Bremen University (paper to be read by Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink)
Barbarians in the Archive: Transfers of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert
12:30 p.m. Program concludes
Van transports participants to hotel