Keynote speakers

Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Research director at the CNRS, member of Academia Europeae, silver Medal of the CNRS 2021. Her areas of interest are the sociology of culture, literature, intellectuals, translation, publishing, law, and the epistemology and history of the social and human sciences.

She is the author of La Guerre des écrivains, 1940-1953 (Fayard 1999; Transl. French Writers’ War, Duke UP, 2014), La Responsabilité de l’écrivain. Littérature, droit et morale en France, XIXe-XXIe siècle (Seuil 2011), La Sociologie de la littérature (La Découverte 2014 ; transl. Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish, Bulgarian, in press in English), Los Intelectuales: profesionalizacion, politizacion, internationalizacion (Eduvim, Cordoba, 2017), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (Seuil 2018), Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur ? (Seuil 2020 ; transl. Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, forth. In Dutch), Des mots qui tuent. La responsabilité de l’intellectuel en temps de crise, 1944-1953 (Points Seuil 2020).

She has also (co)edited Pour une histoire des sciences sociales (Fayard 2004), Pierre Bourdieu, sociologue (Fayard 2004), Translatio. Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation (CNRS Eds. 2008), Les Contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale (Nouveau monde 2009, transl. Spanish), L’Espace intellectuel en Europe (La Découverte 2009), Traduire la littérature et les sciences humaines (DEPS 2012), Sciences humaines en traduction (Institut français 2014, online), Profession ? Ecrivain (CNRS Eds 2017), Ideas on the move in the Social Sciences and Humanities: The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists (Palgrave Mcmillan 2020), Dictionnaire international Bourdieu (CNRS Ed. 2020), The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas (Routledge in press).

https://www.ehess.fr/fr/personne/gis%C3%A8le-sapiro

 

Zrinka Stahuljak is Director of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and co-director of the Experimental Critical Theory Program at UCLA, where she holds the appointment of Professor of Comparative Literature and French. She is author of five monographs, co-author of two books, and co-editor of two volumes, in addition to more than thirty research articles, public humanities essays, and translations. Her work has been recognized, among others, with a visiting professorship at the Collège de France (2018), and fellowships from the Guggenheim (2016), Fulbright (2013), and the IAS Princeton (2005-06). In 2020 she was elected to the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among her recent books are Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge: Histoire et littérature connectées (2021; Croatian trans. 2023), Médiéval contemporain: Pour une littérature connectée (2020), Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation (2013; French trans. 2018), and she has just completed Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (forthcoming UP Chicago, 2023).

Zrinka Stahuljak

 

Iva Grgić Maroević is Professor of Theory and History of Translation at the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Zadar.

She has translated into Croatian a number of important works from Italian and English literature (including Luigi Pirandello and Virginia Woolf) and has edited a series of volumes dedicated to literary translation.

She is the author of the books Osman and his Doubles. A Study in Translation (2004), The Poetics of Translation. On Croatian Translations of Italian Poetry (2009) and The Politics of Translation. On Croatian Translations of Italian Prose (2017). Her book, co-written with Sanja Roić, Pinocchio and his friends. Collodi, De Amicis, Rodari and Their Croatian Translations is currently in print.

Iva Grgić Maroević was a three-time president of the Association of Croatian Literary Translators.

https://talijanistika.unizd.hr/o-nama/akademsko-osoblje/iva-grgic-maroevic