Katrin Kohl and Matthew Reynolds Chaired by Samuel Fanous

Language experts Professor Katrin Kohl and Professor Matthew Reynolds explain how ideas have travelled between cultures through the translation of texts and look at the search for a universal language and the challenge of translation in multicultural Britain.

Kohl and Reynolds are among contributors to essays in Babel: Adventures in Translation. The essays look at how languages have interacted with each other, and at the multilingual transmission of key texts in religion, science, fables, fairy tales and Greek epics.

Kohl is professor of German literature, University of Oxford, and fellow and tutor in German, Jesus College, Oxford. Reynolds is professor of English and comparative criticism, University of Oxford, and fellow and tutor in English language and literature, St Anne’s College, Oxford. Discussions are chaired by Dr Samuel Fanous, head of publishing at Bodleian Libraries.

Presented by Bodleian Libraries.