Translating Distress
How can translation help us communicate distress and wellbeing? What impact does the use of a foreign language have on the therapeutic journey of refugee survivors? In this talk, clinical psychologist Ross White and applied linguist Jean-Marc Dewaele dialogue to explore the ethical and epistemic complexities of multilingual and multicultural mental health research. They consider ways in which translation, broadly construed, can provide the sufferer with tools to reinvent and perform a new self. The event includes a poetry reading by Stephen Romer, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Date: 17 June 2021, 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2021)
Venue: https://translatingillness.com/2021/03/06/translating-distress-may-27th-2021/
Speakers: Dr Sally Cook (Birkbeck University of London), Prof Jean-Marc Dewaele (Borckbeck University of London), Prof Ross White (University of Liverpool), Prof Stephen Romer (University of Oxford)
Organiser: Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: marta.arnaldi@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
Part of: Translating Illness
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://translatingillness.com/2021/03/06/translating-distress-may-27th-2021/
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Marta Arnaldi