Remembering and Translating Violent Pasts: Literary Translations as Media of Transcultural Memory

FWF Research Project | 01.10.2024-30.09.2027 | Institute of Romance Studies | University of Innsbruck

 

 

Fotos aus dem Museo de la Memoria, Santiago de Chile

Pro­ject

Here you find a description of the project and of the three project areas

Team & Net­work

Our project team and the international network of affiliated researchers

Ein langer Flur mit türkisfarbenem Teppich und orangenen Sesseln

Talks & Events

Talks, conference presentations, workshops and other activities

Cover des Buches Translating Memories of Violent Pasts

Pub­li­ca­ti­ons

Project-related publications by the team members

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  • In June, Maja Klostermann will give the talk: "Quand le trauma s’inscrit dans le corps. Lire et traduire les langages du corps traumatisé face à la guerre d’Algérie chez quelques auteurs francophones de l’extrême contemporain" at the 67e Congrès annuel, Society for French Studies, University of Leicester.

  • The project hosts the panel "Post-Dictatorship Memory in Translation: Transcultural Transmission, Circulation, Reception, and Transformation of Literature and Autofiction from Argentina and Chile", at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association, Buenos Aires July/August 2026 (speakers: Cecilia Rossi (East Anglia), Ilse Logie (Ghent), Andrea Linder (Innsbruck), Claudia Jünke (Innsbruck), chair: Mariana Eva Perez (Buenos Aires/Berlin))

  • Claudia Jünke and Andrea Linder will give the presentation "Traducciones literarias como medios de la memoria transcultural. El proyecto 'Remembering and Translating Violent Pasts'”, Taller Memorias transnacionales y traducción, organizado por el Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria (IdIHCS-CONICET) de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y por el Gabinete de traducciones "Dra. Ana María Barrenechea" del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios e Investigaciones de América Latina (INDEAL) de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 3 de agosto 2026.

  • in September, Claudia Jünke will speak about "Violence, Memory and the Non-Translation of Autobiographical/Autofictional Texts", at the Conference Violence, Translation and Testimonial Authority: Ethics and Transmediality in Life-Writing, org. Arvi Sepp & Stéphanie Engola, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 17 & 18 September 2026.

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Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Grant DOI: 10.55776/PAT4123723

Contact: claudia.juenke@uibk.ac.at

@littransmemory.bsky.social

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