Keynote Speakers - CONVIVIAL CULTURES | XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - António Sousa Ribeiro

CONVIVIAL CULTURES? ON THE CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY OF A CONCRETE UTOPIA

Abstract

Pursuing conviviality through art and culture is a concrete utopia, which is permanently under threat. Based on a short reflection on the conditions of translation as an intra- and intercultural paradigm, the talk will try to explore the potential of that utopia while bringing to the fore some of the difficulties it is forced to face.

Biography

António Sousa Ribeiro is emeritus professor for German Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is the director of the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the same University. He has written extensively on several topics in Austrian and German Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Holocaust Studies. He has also an extensive track-record as a literary translator. In 2017 he was awarded the National Prize for Translation for his complete translation of Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind.