Category: Events

Subtitling in the Cloud(powered by OOONA) Course Trainer Dr Serenella Massidda Trainer Background Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation Professional Subtitler and Translator OOONA Tools Certified Instructor Who Would Benefit? Freelance translators, undergraduate and postgraduate translation students, translation tutors, researchers Course Content The day will start with an overview of subtitling training approaches in general and the evolution of cloud-based technology for […]

Song Translation Course Trainer Prof Lucile Desblache Trainer Background Lucile Desblache is a professor of Translation and Transcultural Studies. She holds a Doctorate in Comparative Literature (Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand) and a Doctorate in Musicology (Univ. Paris VIII). Who Would Benefit? Freelance translators, undergraduate and postgraduate translation students, translation tutors, researchers Course Content This course is aimed at translators (particularly […]

FREE EVENT ON PEDAGOGICAL TRANSLATION & FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION (100% ONLINE) Thursday 2nd May 2019, 9 am – 3 pm CEST (Live broadcast from the University of Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, Carretera Nacional IV, km 396, 14014 Córdoba, Spain.) The University of Cordoba (Spain) and University College of London (UK) are proud to announce the second e-Expert Seminar in Translation and […]

“Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse” 7-8 October 2019​, Aga Khan Centre, London The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation studies for a two-day conference on translations […]

Exploring Cultural Intersections 4th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation: Exploring Cultural Intersections Link: http://conference.squengl.com/index.php/conference-themes Dates: February 5 – 7, 2020 Venue: The Department of English Language and Literature at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.   Conference Themes The conference will focus on the dynamics of culture and its representations in the fields of Language, Linguistics, Literature and […]

Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China Dates: 14-15 May 2020 Venue: The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Department III, Berlin, Germany Website: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3866548/locality-and-geographical-knowledge-imperial-china Conveners: Shih-Pei Chen, Masato Hasegawa, and Alexis Lycas Important dates: A project abstract of 500 words attached with a brief biographical note of 100 words should be submitted by 15 May 2019. […]

5th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation – Bridging diverse worlds: expanding roles and contexts of non-professional interpreters and translators  Dates: June 24 – June 26, 2020 Venue: University of Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science Websbite: https://www.npit5.com/ Important dates and deadlines: Deadline submission individual papers, posters and panels: 15 September, 2019 Notification of acceptance: 1 December, 2019 Deadline speaker […]

Genealogies of Knowledge II: Evolving Transnational, Transdisciplinary and Translational Epistemologies Dates: 7-9 April 2020 Venue: The Centre for Translation and the Translation Programme, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Link: http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/gokconf2020/ Call for papers: This conference builds on and extends the theme of Genealogies of Knowledge I, which was held in Manchester in December 2017 and focused on the role […]

Emerging Scholars’ Forum on Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture Dates: 22 and 23 June 2019 Venue: Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture (ACIAC), Western Sydney University, Australia Link: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/aciac/events/2019_aciac_emerging_scholars_forum  Call for papers: Convened by the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture (ACIAC) of Western Sydney University, this international forum intends to bring together emerging scholars from Australia, China and […]

2nd International Conference on Community Translation Date: 13-15 December 2019 Venue: RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=icct20190;welcome=1   Call for papers: After the successful 1st International Conference on Community Translation, held at Western Sydney University in September 2014, we are pleased to issue this call for papers for a second conference to continue addressing issues, advances and innovations in practice, […]