DIJ researcher Nicole M. Mueller and DIJ director Franz Waldenberger will participate in this year’s foundation conference on the theme ‘Thinking between languages’ organised by the German Center for Art History Paris (DFK Paris) and the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS). Nicole Mueller will give a presentation on “Japan’s Translation Culture between Innovation and Subordination. Retraced through 15 Retranslations of Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger“, based on her research project Thomas Mann’s reception in Japan between cultural heteronomy and emancipatory impulses. Franz Waldenberger will be a panelist in the final discussion on ‘Simultaneous Interpretations: The Max Weber Institutes as Translators of Languages, (Academic) Cultures, Methodologies, and More’. The conference takes place at the Goethe-Institute Paris on May 13 and 14. Details here