Tradurre l’ambiguità. Appunti sulla ricezione di Genesi 3,22. Interviene Carlo Ginzburg

The conference discusses various translations of a verse from the Book of Genesis in which God addresses Adam after the Fall. A careful analysis of the reception of this text since early Christianity reveals a broader and more disconcerting ambiguity that can be considered an extreme example of the complexity of any translation. Conference with Carlo Ginzburg Greetings Maria Carolina Foi Moderator Andreas Mayer Carlo Ginzburg is Professor Emeritus at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and one of the most important historians of international standing. His more than twenty books have been translated into numerous languages: The Benandanti (1966, new ed. 2020); The Cheese and the Worms (1976, new ed. 2019); Spies: Roots of a Paradigm of Evidence (1979); Night History: A Decipherment of the Sabbath (1989, new ed. 2017); the most recent is The Letter Kills (2021). Andreas Mayer is a research director at the CNRS and teaches at the EHESS in Paris. He was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 2019 to 2020. Since 2021, he has been working at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. His numerous publications on Freud and the history of the human sciences have been translated into several languages. In collaboration with the Marc Bloch Center Berlin Lecture at the conference "Translating in the Human Sciences: Towards a World Perspective" (Marc Bloch Center, Berlin)