The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar Announcement of 2020 Award Winner and Two Runners Up The SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 Martha Cheung Award is Dr. Joanna Rzepa of the University of Essex, UK, for her article […]
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5th International Edition Translation Symposium Audiovisual Translation and Computer-Mediated Communication: Fostering Access to Digital Mediascapes 26-27 May 2020 Location University of Palermo – Department of Humanities Complesso Monumentale Sant’Antonino/Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri Piazzetta Sant’Antonino, 1 – Palermo Synopsis Research on (audiovisual) translation, computer-mediated communication and accessibility has gained momentum in recent years. Accessibility, understood as the set of procedures, mechanisms […]
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The Role of Technology in Conference Interpreter Training Series: New Trends in Translation Studies Edited By María Dolores Rodríguez Melchor, Ildikó Horváth and Kate Ferguson Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have radically changed the way we live and work, and the field of interpreting is no exception. Interpreter training today needs to prepare students for this new professional reality and ICTs […]
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The Prosody of Dubbed Speech: Beyond the Character’s Words Author: Sánchez-Mompeán, Sofía Presents dubbing and prosody as two autonomous and consolidated fields of research, and as two interrelated disciplines Evaluates trends characteristic of Spanish dubbing prosody, including intonation, loudness, tempo, rhythm and speech tension Explores the difficulties of rendering prosodic cues from one language into another, and the strategies that can be […]
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Warwick Translates Summer School University of Warwick 8—12 July 2020 10am – 4.30pm daily plus evening events Overview Following the success of the inaugural Warwick Translates in 2019, we are delighted to announce that the summer school will be returning in 2020. For a review of Warwick Translates 2019 by two of our participants, see this report from the ITI Bulletin. You […]
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Assistant Professor in English Translation Studies (English-Arabic, Arabic-English) University of Nizwa – Department of Foreign Languages Location: Nizwa – Oman Salary: OMR1,400 to OMR1,600 £2,833.74 to £3,238.56 converted salary* per month (could be negotiated depend on the applicant file) Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed On: 26th February 2020 Closes: 30th April 2020 Job Ref: ENG_ET About the University of […]
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[Free workshop] To accept or not to accept: All you need to know when you are offered post-editing work Date And Time Fri, 17 April 2020 12:00 – 13:00 BST Add to Calendar Location University of Portsmouth Park Building, Room PK1.09 King Henry I Street PO1 2DZ, United Kingdom View Map Description [Free workshop] To accept or not to […]
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When Translation Meets Technologies: Shaping an ethical and sustainable translation industry by University of Portsmouth, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics Date And Time Fri, 17 April 2020 13:00 – 17:45 BST Add to Calendar Location University of Portsmouth Park Building, Room PK1.23 King Henry I Street PO1 2DZ United Kingdom View Map Description When Translation Meets Technologies: Shaping an […]
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Date 15 May 2020, 9.45am – 5.00pm Type Conference / Symposium Venue Room 349, Third Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description A growing number of texts (literature, theatre, film, multimedia) written and spoken in a variety of Asian languages travel today within and outside pan-continental Asia, reaching audiences across the globe. Migrating Texts 6, ‘Going East’, will […]
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CULTUS 14: Translation plus: The added value of the translator Call for abstracts: May 30th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2020 Call for papers: October 30th, 2020 Translators, when not getting any press tend to get bad press, and the translation profession itself appears to be suffering an existential crisis (low play, status and uncertain future). However, this is not […]
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