Events

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor at Columbia University in New York, will reflect on translation as a practice that creates reciprocity and hospitality between cultures and languages. He will also address the objection that, in a (post)colonial world and given the hierarchy that exists between languages, translation is rather domination (Pascale Casanova) and violence.

Such a discussion also raises the question of a literature written in the “imperial” language. He will refer to his book “De langue à langue. L’hospitalité de la traduction”, Albin Michel, 2022 (English: “From language to language, the hospitality of translation”, Other Press 2025).

The talk will be given in English. Questions may be asked in English or French.