02/07/2026 15:00
- 19:30
HALL: Parenzo - A13
Contact:
Badini F.
Chair:
Badini F.,
Bigoni L.,
Mambelli A.
This panel investigates the semantic transformations and translation strategies associated with the concepts of "witnessing" and "martyrdom" from a diachronic perspective. Starting from the foundational texts of the Biblical and Quranic traditions, the panel examines how specific semantic fields have been rendered, reinterpreted, and at times reshaped in translations and receptions across different historical moments. Particular attention is paid to translational choices as sites of negotiation between philology, theology, and historical contexts, revealing how acts of translation both reflect and produce doctrinal, cultural, and ideological shifts.
Spanning from antiquity to modern languages and cultures, the panel highlights processes of semantic slippage, expansion, and re-semanticisation within the lexicon of martyrdom. By foregrounding the interaction between textual tradition, audience, and purpose, it aims to show how translation does not merely transfer meanings, but actively participates in the construction, stabilization, and transformation of religious concepts over time, shaping the ways in which they are understood, mobilised, and reactivated in different religious and intellectual perspectives.
