21 May 2021 – ‘Honouring the Languages of Illness: Translation and Emotions in the Face of Disease’ (Symposium)

Translation and Emotion online symposium, The Open University, 21 May 2021

In this lecture, Marta Arnaldi connects three seemingly unrelated experiences: translation, emotions and illness. She argues that patient-doctor interactions and processes of literary translation are relational practices that share a spectrum of affective responses. Courage, uncertainty, impatience, wonder, desire, guilt, compassion, vulnerability and despair are but some of the different emotions involved in these encounters.