Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer

Special issue of Babel 70:5 (2024)

Editors
ORCID logoIrmak Mertens | KU Leuven and University of Tartu
Sophie Decroupet | Ghent University
[Babel, 70:5]  Expected October 2024.  ca. 150 pp.
Publishing status: In production
Table of Contents
This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.
Conceptualizing museum translation: Cultural translation, interlingual processes and other perspectives
Irmak Mertens and Sophie Decroupet
593–614
Visitor experience as translation: Intertextuality and identity in experiences of an American Chinese museum
Robert Neather
615–636
Translating artworks: Interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation in museums
Chiara Bartolini
637–657
Communication with international visitors: Interlingual translation practice in the University of Tartu Museum
Terje Loogus and Jaanika Anderson
658–681
Generational translation in the Jewish Museum, Berlin: Navigating between history and story
Clare Hindley, Katja Grupp and Magda Sylwestrowicz
682–703
“So if you’re going fossil hunting, that’s where you should look” Popularization for children in science museum websites
Annalisa Sezzi and Jessica Jane Nocella
704–726
The ethnographic museum as a sensitive translation: The case of the AfricaMuseum in Belgium
Anneleen Spiessens and Luc van Doorslaer
727–758
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFP: Translation & interpretation

Main BISAC Subject

LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting