{"id":927,"date":"2026-05-20T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/?p=927"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:15:54","slug":"may-26-majliswaseda-thinking-politics-through-translation-the-view-from-the-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/news\/927","title":{"rendered":"[May 26]: Majlis@Waseda: Thinking Politics through Translation: The View from The Arab World"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the political promises and pitfalls of the practice conceptual translation? I will first revisit my excavation of the histories of the 1960s Arab Marxist Left before moving to think with diasporic Arab intellectuals (Edward Said and Leila Ahmed) and the question of Palestine. \u00a0In thinking about both the translation of politics and the politics of translation, what I am after is to move beyond translation\u2019s preoccupation with the question of meaning and towards transfiguration – the repurposing of concepts in, and for, different sites – and towards thinking the practice\u2019s entanglement with recognition and solidarity.<\/p>\n

Fadi A. Bardawil<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Contemporary Arab Cultures in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.<\/p>\n

Date: May 26, 2026 (Tue)<\/p>\n

Time: 17:30-19:00<\/p>\n

Venue: Building 3-405, Waseda University Main Campus<\/p>\n

To register, please go to: https:\/\/forms.gle\/e7KDfPS26qkMwDQm8<\/a><\/p>\n

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