The ICESCO-EUROMED Chair “Arts, Societies and CIVILIZATIONS” organizes a Masterclass on the theme “Translation and the Dialogue of Cultures”

As part of the 2023-2024 activities of the ICESCO-EUROMED Chair “Arts, Societies and CIVILIZATIONS”, a Masterclass was organized on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, led by Ms. Rajae Talbi (poet, writer and translator) on the theme “Translation and the Dialogue of Cultures”.

The debate developed from the reflection she initiated, focusing on key questions: 1. the role of Translation in the construction of peace, the rise of interculturality, and the transmission of knowledge. 2. The practice of translation as work on the imagination of the self and the perception of the other. 3. Translation and its demands regarding the translator and the reader.

The open debate with students from the Translation program made it possible to give an even richer continuation to these lines of reflection, highlighting among other things the problems of Translation in the face of the challenges of artificial intelligence, Translation confronted with the transformations of languages as they are affected today by social media, and the isolation in which the translator finds themselves, forced to constantly invent their own tools.

This Masterclass actively functioned as a true laboratory for analyzing the mechanisms of Translation and its epistemological underpinnings.