Prof. Kobus Marais "Making a case for thinking about thermodynamics in translation studies"

Описание: Meet the Masters Season 1 academic year 2022/2023

Doctoral Research Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin presents the fourth lecture within the series "Meet the Masters"! Our guest is prof. Kobus Marais (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa), who presents a lecture titled "Making a case for thinking about thermodynamics in translation studies: The emergence of a trajectory of thought" (06.03.2023).

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Kobus Marais is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has published three monographs, namely Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach (2014), A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (2018) and Trajectories of Translation: The Thermodynamics of Semiosis (2023) and an edited volume entitled Translation Beyond Translation Studies (2022). In addition, he has published edited volumes with Ilse Feinauer (Translation Studies Beyond the Postcolony, 2017), and Reine Meylaerts (Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations, 2018, and Exploring the Implications of Complexity Thinking for Translation Studies, 2021). His research interests focus on translation theory, complexity thinking, semiotics/biosemiotics and development studies.

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The series of lectures "Meet the Masters" was organized by the Doctoral Research Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and supervised by Professor Małgorzata Gamrat. The series was aimed at all PhD students, academics, researchers, and students, especially those interested in interdisciplinary research. All the events were available online and some of them are available on our channel.


Other lectures during the first season of our series:
08.11.2022 Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki), "My Way from Parisian structuralism to Existential semiotics" (   • MEET THE MASTERS ,,My Way from Parisian st...  )
12.12.2022 Luisa Nardini (University of Texas at Austin), "Chant and Nuns in medieval Southern Italy"
23.01.2023 Robert Hatten (University of Texas at Austin), "Fruitful Intersections between Music Semiotics and Other Disciplines" (   • Видео  )
06.03.2023 Kobus Marais (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein in South Africa), "Making a case for thinking about thermodynamics in translation: The emergence of a trajectory of thought" (   • Видео  )
04.04.2023 Sabine Frommel (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France), "The artistic renew in Florence at the time of Lorenze de' Medici"
17.04.2023 Michelle Facos (Indiana University in Bloomington ), "Denmark and the Invention of Modern Happiness: the 18th-century Origins"    • Видео  
08.05.2023 Sylvie Douche (Sorbonne University), "Music to support the text: melodramatic filiations"