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Experiencing Palestine. Multisensorial Testimony in Felix Salten's Neue Menschen auf alter Erde Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Presentation : translating testimony Ghent University
'Only not beyond love': testimony, subalternity, and the famine in the poetry of Eavan Boland Ghent University
Second-person Experience, Testimony, and Healing: An Investigation with Aquinas into the Problem of Human Suffering KU Leuven
Suffering concerns basically everyone. There has been a wide range of theoretical studies examining causes of suffering, ways of healing, and the meaning of life. There have also been plenty of people who provide practical help to those in need. However, suffering remains an issue. In the face of such a challenging problem, this project will provide a framework for how to gather collective strength to alleviate suffering. Our first-person ...
Translating testimony Ghent University
What is the relationship between testimony, defined as a more or less ritualized first person account of political violence, and translation? Correspondingly, how does the translator position herself towards the witness? Can the translator be, or become, a witness? How, when and why are testimonies translated? Which linguistic and discursive strategies do translators resort to when faced with ethically challenging texts? Which role do they play ...
Translating the perpetrator’s testimony : Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda) Ghent University
This chapter examines the impact of editing and translation on the way we collectively remember perpetrators and perpetrator testimonies. It is based on two case studies: the memoirs of former Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, and Jean Hatzfeld’s transcribed conversations with Rwandan génocidaires. Perpetrator stories, as will be demonstrated, are highly polyphonic constructs, with editors, prefacers, and translators inserting themselves into ...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: On the Crucial Role of “Testimony” in Biblical Wisdom Literature and in the Book of Qoheleth in Particular KU Leuven
Within the field of epistemology, there is a growing interest in the crucial role of testimony in the human search for knowledge. Several philosophers argue that much of Western epistemology is marked by an individualistic attempt to understand the world. The purpose of this article is to show that this is not the case for Ancient Israel’s search for wisdom. Whereas several exegetes have pointed out that empirical research is pivotal to biblical ...
The Importance of the Smallest Effect Size of Interest in Expert Witness Testimony on Alcohol and Memory KU Leuven
Memory experts are sometimes asked to evaluate the validity of accounts of witnesses, victims, or suspects. In some of these cases, they are asked what effect alcohol has on the validity of such accounts. In this article, we offer a guide on what expert witnesses can reliably say about how alcohol affects memory. We do so by resorting to effect sizes from previous studies and meta-analytic work, and address this novel question: Are these effect ...
The Role of Testimony in Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Mathematicians appear to have quite high standards for when they will rely on testimony. Many mathematicians require that a number of experts testify that they have checked the proof of a result p before they will rely on p in their own proofs without checking the proof of p. We examine why this is. We argue that for each expert who testifies that she has checked the proof of p and found no errors, the likelihood that the proof contains no ...