Agents of Transculturation: Border Crossers - Mediators - In-Betweens

The conference will bring together experts from diverse disciplines and places around the globe whose work is concerned with the lives and works of people who acted as agents between cultures. Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic depended on the mediation of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and languages of both cultures involved in the contact.

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