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"Science" is part of Western cultural history and expansion. The "Western" scientific approach based on the separation of subject and object over centuries has led to manifold constructive achievements to ease life as well as to systematic exploitation and destruction of the earth and its inhabitants. Scientists are change agents and many seriously interfere with traditional values, for better of for worse, at a speed which people cannot cope with. Today, more than before, scientists are asked to identify problems of science-based cross-cultural interaction which may be more destructive than helpful. This is as true for the fields of medical science and its applications, though less conspicious at the first glance, as for other sciences. Although the natural science paradigm of medicine is universally relevant, the practical applications of it in terms of medical care are not at all. Many sociocultural, economic, educational and political barriers exist, as well as differences in explanatory models of health, causes of disease and healing in different cultures, including the Western one. A dialogue between cultures, between sciences and humanities, is urgently meeded to make science, and scientific medicine for that matter, universally relevant to mankind.

This paper aims to explore the way in which Harry Potter's made-upness is subtitled for a contemporary Chinese audience. It will specifically underline how the official Chinese subtitles[1] mediate the cultural specificities which characterise the transnational world of Harry Potter. Jerry Griswold's (2006, 1-2) findings on children's literature that key characteristics including "scariness, smallness, flying, aliveness" serve compellingly to the majority of the children will be applied to the categorisation of the representative instances in this case analysis. 'Magic', as an extension of Griswold's category of 'aliveness', will be also considered to analyse the quintessential cultural transfer between Britain and China. The paper will be concluded by the fact that a high level of creativity is required from the subtitler to bridge the considerable linguistic and cultural gap between both countries in relation to the subtitling process of witchcraft and wizardry in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).[1] Different from the fansubbing, the official subtitles offer a stable body of work. They also underline an extra layer of cultural intervention in keeping with André Lefevere's (2002, 14) writing on the cultural institutions which shape the process of translation because the subtitles in question have not only been filtered through the Chinese translator's perspective, they have also been mediated by the government office which oversees the films chosen for subtitling and the way in which they are subtitled.

The article explores the semiotic aspects of the theory of cultural transfer, translation, and (non)translation, with a specific focus on the translator's comment. It unravels discur­sive and interpretative concepts that illuminate the transformation of an original text into a secondary text, encompassing reception, interpretation, cultural transfer, and literary trans­lation, showcasing their interdependence and connection. The analysis centres on the literary translation of texts by Daniil Kharms, portraying it as a process where the social and aesthetic practices of both the translator and the reader manifest in the creation and perception of a secondary text. The study scrutinizes literary translation as a linguistic and creative endeav­our, illustrating the meticulous approach of the translator Kim Jung A in authentically repre­senting the author's ideology and aesthetics. Furthermore, the article, for the first time, un­veils the ways in which the aesthetics of the absurd are culturally transferred into a foreign context, specifically in the translations of stories and "cases" by Kharms into Korean. It delves into the implementation of translation transcreativity, providing concrete examples of translation solutions in the Russian-Korean language pair. The research not only analyzes the real implementation but also explores possible avenues for transferring the aesthetics of ab­surd literature in contemporary translation practices.

AbstractThis article examines the transfer of Swedish concepts of urban modernity to British cities after 1945. It shows how an affinity between design and architecture elites facilitated the transfer of key concepts that were mediated in cities. Moreover, it argues that the often contested transfer of Swedish modern architecture and design to northern English cities initially meshed with municipal ambitions to improve working-class housing and culture. Thereafter the influence of Swedish modern was continued in altered form by the preponderance of Swedish prefabrication techniques in the construction of new poured concrete and high-rise estates during the 1960s. These aspirations to improve the urban environment with Scandinavian examples of good living often magnified the difficulties of modernising the industrial conurbations of the north.

Defence date: 8 June 2009 ; Examining Board: Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (European University Institute, Florence) - supervisor, Prof. James S. Amelang (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid), Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (European University Institute, Florence), Dr. Katrin Keller (University of Vienna) ; First made available online on 25 October 2017. ; This study aims to reveal traces of Spanish cultural influences on the seventeenth-century Austrian Habsburg monarchy, or to be more precise, on courtly and aristocratic culture. The focus is however less on the ruling houses, but rather more on the aristocratic society and its contribution to cultural transfer processes from Spain to Austria. Tracing themes of alteration in aristocratic selfrepresentation, evoked by political, social and cultural changes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this study examines the role of culture in general, and cultural borrowings in particular, in the process of aristocratic re-invention. "A nobleman has to be curious", Prince Karl Eusebius Liechtenstein once argued. "Thereby he distinguishes himself from the ordinary man." This curiosity in every respect was beyond any doubt a decisive factor for cultural transfer processes.

"This volume attempts for the first time a comprehensive view of the momentous process of German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries, which played an important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity, a process to which the New England Transcendentalists contributed some of the decisive ingredients, but which has largely escaped the attention of German and American scholarship. In each chapter a specific problem is treated systematically from a clearly defined perspective, deficiencies of existing translation theories are exposed, so that in the concluding chapters 13 and 14 (with an unpublished memorandum by Alexander von Humboldt) a cohesive view of the entire process emerges. A comprehensive bibliography will facilitate further scholarly pursuits"--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Burgundians and Byzantium -- 2 'Avenger of all Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: Saint Polyeuctus, Sigibert I, and the Division of Charibert's Kingdom in 568 -- 1. Gregory of Tours and the Church of Saint Polyeuctus in Constantinople -- 2. Polyeuctus, Hilary and Martin - A Saintly Triumvirate in Merovingian Politics -- 3. The Division of Charibert's Kingdom -- 4. Saint Polyeuctus and Metz, the Austrasian Capital -- 5. The Division of Charibert's Kingdom and the Political Situation in 568 -- 6. Conclusion -- 3 The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-Roman West -- 4 Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the Mediterranean -- 1. The Fredegar-Chronicle: Horizon and Structure -- 2. Fredegar and the Mediterranean: Questions and Problems -- 3. Sources and Channels of Communication -- 4. Making History: Author, Narrator and the Appropriation of Motifs -- 5. A Tangible Context? Constans II in Italy, Abbot Hadrian, and Fredegar -- 6. Conclusions -- 5 Greek Popes: Yes or No, and Did It Matter? -- 6 Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica Maiora -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

To better understand why some drug abuse treatment programs are more effective than others, USA research about organizational functioning and its role in the provision of treatment services was extended through a study of a delivery system in another country. The Texas Christian University (TCU) organizational functioning and readiness for change instrument (ORC) was translated into Italian and administered to 405 treatment program directors and staff from both public and private sectors in the Veneto Region of Northern Italy. Results indicated that the psychometric properties of the ORC in the USA and Italy are consistent. Some general differences in staff attributes were found between USA and Italian programs, but organizational climates were remarkably similar.