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Dear All, a final reminder for tomorrow's W. v. Humboldt-Symposium at QMUL, I hope to see some of you there. All welcome, best wishes,

Marko

Thinking Language: Wilhelm von Humboldt now

 

A Symposium at Queen Mary, University of London

Funded by British Academy/Leverhulme

 

Date: 29 April 2016

Venue: Lockkeeper’s Cottage, QMUL

(East Gate – 150 yards straight into the campus, then on the right hand side)

 

9.30-11          Marko Pajević (London): Welcome and Introduction

Chair and respondent: David Nowell Smith (East Anglia)

John E. Joseph (Edinburgh): Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Reception in the Anglosphere, 1820-present

11                   Coffee Break

 

11.30-1.15     Chair and respondent: James W. Underhill (Rouen)

 

Jürgen Trabant (Berlin): Vanishing Worldviews

 

             Ute Tintemann (Berlin): Collecting Language Date: from Humboldt to the Language Archive

 

1.15                Lunch Break

2.30-4.15       Chair and respondent: Marko Pajević (London)

            James W. Underhill (Rouen): Humboldt in Translation Theory. Pearls of wisdom, or splashes

           in the ocean?

 

            Barbara Cassin (Paris): Humboldt, Translation, and the Dictionary of Untranslatables

 

4.15                Coffee Break

 

4.30-6.15       Chair and respondent: Jürgen Trabant (Berlin)

 

            John Walker (London): Wilhelm von Humboldt and Dialogical Thinking

 

            Marko Pajević (London): Humboldt’s ‘thinking language’: Poetics and Politics

 

6.15                Wine-reception

 

ALL WELCOME!