{"id":177,"date":"2026-10-14T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:13:31","slug":"evening-event","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/evening-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Translation, truth, and textual afterlives: an evening of transformation&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday 5 November at 18:30 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/387402c2-9cd6-42e8-8b18-2f735aa04722@0e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685?source=copyLinkLegacyShareLinkDialog\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/387402c2-9cd6-42e8-8b18-2f735aa04722@0e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685?source=copyLinkLegacyShareLinkDialog\">Register here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dracula&nbsp;<\/em>in Icelandic and Swedish. Shakespeare in the service of Romanian nation-building. Prismatic&nbsp;<em>Jane Eyre<\/em>. Join us for an evening of conversation about how translation changes everything and how translation has changed. As a process that navigates creativity, authority, the matter of \u2018real originals\u2019 and \u2018authentic voices\u2019, translation has often challenged and transformed ideas about textual truths. And where does a text\u2019s truth lie, anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our speakers are Bianca Maria Alecu from the University of Bucharest; Matthew Reynolds from the University of Oxford; and Helen Zaltzman, broadcaster, writer, and producer of the linguistics podcast&nbsp;<em>The Allusionist<\/em>, in conversation with Daria Chernysheva from The Open University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before the event, we invite you to submit a 10-word description or definition of translation at this Padlet:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.com%2Fdariachernysheva1%2Fwhat-is-translation-s023lpwbz9noi1k0mp1x&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cfrancesca.benatti%40open.ac.uk%7C48855339dc0b4cfdda4108df29f7189b%7C0e2ed45596af4100bed3a8e5fd981685%7C0%7C0%7C639275813370156949%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=A0vnrDHFXT6vIZYNrWlLeHeSZuAAXoB%2F08Cz4EaSMiM%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><strong>What is Translation?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translation, truth, and textual afterlives: an evening of transformation&nbsp;&nbsp; Thursday 5 November at 18:30 &#8211; Register here Dracula&nbsp;in Icelandic and Swedish. Shakespeare in the service of Romanian nation-building. Prismatic&nbsp;Jane Eyre. Join us for an evening of conversation about how translation changes everything and how translation has changed. As a process that navigates creativity, authority, the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/evening-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Evening event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}