Lecture by Prof. Lieven D’Hulst
DATES: NOVEMBER 20-21, 2019
VENUES: CLUB PROZA, WROCŁAW LITERATURE HOUSE; THE INSTITUTE OF ROMANCE STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW
The Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub has the pleasure of inviting interested parties to the lectures of an AE Member Prof. Lieven D’hulst from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, which were part of the conference PÉRIPHÉRIES – CENTRES – TRADUCTION (the programme is available here in Polish and French), organised by the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Wrocław.
Lieven D’hulst is a full professor of French and Francophone literature and of Translation Studies at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he heads the Research Group “Translation and Intercultural Transfer”. He is a member of the editorial board of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies and the co-director of the series “Traductologie” at “Artois Presses Université” (France). He is also a member of Academia Europaea (Cambridge). His current research topics include intercultural mediation in Belgium (19th century), transfer techniques (including translation), the history of translation and of translation studies. Among his book publications are Histoire des traductions en langue française.19e siècle (ed. with Y. Chevrel & C. Lombez) (Paris: Verdier, 2012); Essais d’histoire de la traduction. Avatars de Janus (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014); Politics, Policy and Power in Translation History (ed. with C. O’Sullivan & M. Schreiber) (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2016); and A History of Modern Translation Knowledge (ed. with Y. Gambier) (Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2018).