Dr Vanessa Pupavac
translator; associate professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham; author, Translation as Liberation

Vanessa is associate professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. She has previously worked for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and other international organisations. She has written extensively on human rights politics and humanitarianism. She published a co-authored book on Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: rekindling Faust’s humanism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) and has previously published Language Rights: from free speech to linguistic governance (Palgrave, 2012). She is currently researching the European borderlands.

Vanessa is the author of Translation as Liberation – a radical pamphlet in the series Letters on Liberty – in which she argues that translation is the truest form of altruism, a process through which we express our human sociability across language borders. She is currently researching the European borderlands alongside translating the major plays of Miroslav Krleža, the leading Croatian writer of the twentieth century, namely his First World War and Glembay dramas.

Follow Vanessa on Twitter @VPupavac

RELATED SESSIONS

Sunday 16 October, 15:45 Abbey Room, Church House
Letters on Liberty: Translation as liberation

Saturday 5 November, 12:30 Devonshire Dome - DO/G04
Letters on Liberty: The liberating power of education