This panel will examine agents and agency of translation, considering certain cases in which they are responsible for cultural transference through translation. Agents of translation may be patrons of literature: Maecenas, publishers, salon organizers, and also politicians or companies who help to change linguistic policies. Often they are individuals who devote great amounts of energy, and even their own lives, to the cause of a foreign literature, author or literary school, translating, writing articles, teaching and diffusing.

Papers already accepted for the panel examine: the general concept of Agents and Agency of Translation and the work of Monteiro Lobato and Hasan Alî Yücel as agents of translation in Brazil and Turkey, respectively (John Milton); Cultural Agents in Vanguard Poetics in Argentina (Lisa Bradford); Cheikh Anta and Sultan Njoya Diop as African Agents of Translation (Paul Bandia); Giovanni Battista Ramusio: Collector, Editor, Agent of Translation (Sergia Adamo); Bible Translation As A Global Grassroots Movement (Margaret Muthwii); the publishing house Vizetelly & Company (Denise Merkle).

Further contributions are invited that examine any aspect of the concept of agency in translation or that explore the life and work of significant agents of translation.

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