29424 - Seminars (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The main goals of Philosophical Seminars are those that characterize in general seminar teaching: (1) train young students at the practice of philosophical reasoning also by promoting discussions on important texts and themes; (2) broaden their philosophical knowledge also by organizing conferences and debates; (3) compare various approaches to philosophizing.

Course contents

The seminar will organize meetings with international scholars dealing with the theme of translation, also as a philosophical theme.

Presentation of the Course: Wednesday the 15^th February at 3 p.m. (aula Mondolfo, via Zamboni 38).

The lectures will focus on the theme of translation as central theme of the human sciences, which deal with different languages and need of a translation that nevertheless is not ever able to provide a true and fair view of the original meaning. The problem of translation, as philosophical theme, involves in the final analysis the impossibility of a completely faithful translation.

The specialist scholars will then show the concretes problems of translation as theoretical and practical activity.

The class will be taught by four visiting Professors. At the end of the Course, each student has to prepare a paper on a subject matter in agreement with Carlo Gentili or Mariafranca Spallanzani.

Visiting Professors that will teach the Class:

Douglas Cairn, full professor of Classics at the University of Edimburgh, Scottish Graduate School in Arts and Humanities.

Siri Nergaard Lecturer at the University of Florence, Departement of foreign Languages and Literatures and professor of Semiotics and Text Theory at the University of Tønsberg, Norway.

Martin Rueff, full professor at the University of Geneva, Langue et littérature fraçaise. He’s poet and translator of poems.

Tadahiko Wasa is translator, awarded of the Price for the Translation of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and guest scholar at the SSSU.

First lecture (Martin Rueff's schedule):

Thursday 23th and Friday 24th February, h.10 -12 (Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Sala Rossa, Via Marsala)

Thursady 9th and Friday 10th March, h.10-12 (Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Sala Rossa, Via Marsala).

Second lecture (Siri Nergaard's schedule):

Tuesday 21th and Thursday 23th March, h. 10-12 (Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Sala Rossa, Via Marsala)

Tuesday 28th and Thursday 30th March, h. 10-12 (Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Sala Rossa, Via Marsala).

 

(Second semester)

Readings/Bibliography

Texts of the lectures

Teaching methods

Lectures, discussions with the students.

Assessment methods

Paper ( max. 20000 words) on a subject previously discussed and agreed upon with the teacher.

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Gentili