Author: kyunghye.kim

Translation as Position-Taking in the Literary Field: Agents and institutions of translated literature in Italy and of Italian literature abroad (20th and 21st Century) 23-24 April 2021, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK) Abstract Proposal Deadline: 1 September 2020 E-mail: tptlf21@gmail.com “Translations do not take place in a vacuum” (Blakesley 2018). They cannot be seen as isolated textual entities, detached from the field in […]

In 2017, The University of Warwick launched a new translation prize (the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation) to honour the best published translated work by a female author. On the back of this success, in 2018-19, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick piloted a […]

Call_for_Papers_FIRE-TI_2021 The research group Socio-Cognitive Translation Studies: Processes and Networks (socotrans) at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna is delighted to announce an International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting: Practices, Processes, Networks (FIRE-TI) to be held in Vienna from 18 to 20 February 2021. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers who study translation and interpreting (T&I) […]

The harp in translation: Online concert and discussion Date: 30 May 2020, 7.00pm – 8.30pm Type: Other Events Venue: Online event Description How do musicians borrow ideas from other musical traditions, or techniques from other instruments – and in what ways does this behave like spoken language?In seventeenth-century Paraguay, instrument makers adapted earlier designs from Spain and Brazil to create […]

In 2021 the 13th meeting of the international Symposium on (Im)Politeness and the 7th meeting of the biannual iMean  (interaction and meaning)  conference will be merged for a meeting on the “pragmatics of translation” on 24-26 June, 2021. We hope that you will hold the dates and be able to join us. We will invite papers on translation outcomes and processes which highlight a pragmatic angle of understanding […]

The Behavioral Economics of Translating World Literature: Translators as Econs, Humans, and Queers Date: 03/06/2020 Time: 6:00-8:00PM Location: Online via Zoom Speaker: Professor Douglas Robinson   Abstract: Behavioral economics is an academic newcomer: it was born in the 1980s out of experiments conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, based on their empirical findings of predictable irrationality in human economic decision-making. Neoclassical economists had […]