Medieval Fixers: History, Literature, and the Politics of Translation. Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA). Global France Seminar

Fixers are men who perform a range of services for foreign journalists and armies: local informants, translators, drivers... Fixers existed in the Middle Ages, in situations such as crusades. The talk will create a dialogue between the fixers of the past and of the present (Iraq, Syria, etc.)