Translating Current Debates

The Translating Current Debates Program aimed at making available translations of contemporary titles in social sciences and humanities for the academic and wider audiences in Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. The program was a smaller-scale continuation of Translation Project focused exclusevely on contemporary books on issues related to the priorities of the Open Society Network. Topics included but were not limited to: information society, globalization, democracy, human rights, public policy, minorities issues, etc.

Supported projects:

  Buruma, Ian, Margalit, Avishai: Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, translation into Bulgarian by Kralica Mab

  Raymond Detrez, Kosovo: The Postponed War, translation into Bulgarian by Kralica Mab

  OECD book: Citizens as Partners, translation into Croatian by Oxymoron

  Consolidating the 3rd Wave Democracies, translation into Romanian by Romanian Academic Society

  Diego Valades: Control on Power, translation into Russian by Idea Press

  Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture, translation into Russian by Ars Pragmatika

  Michael Brown: Who Owns Native Culture, translation into Russian by Ars Pragmatika

  Gil Anidjar: The Jew, the Arabs. A History of an Enemy, translation into Serbian by Belgrade Circle