Dr Vanessa Pupavac
translator; senior lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham; author, Translation as Liberation

Vanessa is a senior lecturer in international relations at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. She has previously worked for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and other international organisations. She has written extensively on human rights politics and humanitarianism. She published a co-authored book on Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: rekindling Faust’s humanism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) and has previously published Language Rights: from free speech to linguistic governance (Palgrave, 2012).

Vanessa is the author of Translation as Liberation – a radical pamphlet in the series Letters on Liberty – in which she argues that translation is the truest form of altruism, a process through which we express our human sociability across language borders. Her current research is exploring international politics, literature and translation, focused on the writings of the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža.

Follow Vanessa on X/Twitter: @VPupavac

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