Category: Events

Conference on Accessibility in Film, Television, and Interactive Media Call for Papers Saturday 14th October – Sunday 15th October 2017 Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, Baird Lane, York, YO10 5GB, UK The number of visually impaired people in the UK is expected to rise to 4 million by 2020, while by 2035 it is estimated that […]

TRANSLATION AND DISRUPTION: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES   Saturday 4 November 2017 Confirmed Keynote speaker:  Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University. Since Clayton Christensen’s seminal book Innovator’s Dilemma showed how a small-scale but innovative digital technology can overthrow large established businesses overnight, the idea of digital disruption has been causing both excitement and concern in businesses worldwide, from financial and legal services to entertainment distribution and the taxi industry. The […]

V International Translating Voices Translating Regions 20 September 2016 ‘Minority languages, risks, disasters and regional crises’ DATES: 13-15 DECEMBER 2017 VENUE: EUROPE HOUSE, LONDON TIMES: 9:30-16:30 The Centre for Translation Studies announces the V International Conference Translating Voices, Translating Regions, convened by Dr Christophe Declercq and Dr Federico M. Federici. Deadline to submit panel proposals: 15 February 2017 Deadline to submit abstracts for […]

Overview   This one-day course on advanced subtitling will help you tackle subtitling challenges more confidently. You’ll work with audiovisual texts from authentic contexts and practise time-cuing and translation. You’ll familiarise yourself with different types of audiovisual texts and will look at the respective approaches used to translate these within the framework of interlingual subtitling. This course is run by […]

Corpus Semiotics: Reassessing Context   Conference Room (C1. 18), Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester 5 June 2017 In association with DH@Manchester Keynote Speaker: Professor Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) Corpus analysis, in the tradition of Firth, Halliday and Sinclair, proceeds from the assumption that meaning arises from language in use, rather than language as an abstract system of […]

Corpus Semiotics: Reassessing Context Conference Room (C1. 18), Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester 5 June 2017 In association with DH@Manchester   Keynote Speaker: Professor Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham) Corpus analysis, in the tradition of Firth, Halliday and Sinclair, proceeds from the assumption that meaning arises from language in use, rather than language as an abstract system of […]

2nd International Conference Atlantic Communities: Translation | Conflict | Belief | Ideology 19th – 21st October 2017 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (Portugal) CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies Co-organized by: University of Porto | University of Vigo | Queen’s University Belfast The conference – a rationale: This conference is the second in a […]

International Conference Protest and Dissent in Translation and Culture  organized by Department of Anglophone Cultures and Literatures University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) Warsaw, 11-13 May 2017   CALL FOR PAPERS   Though dissent and protest seem to be strongly linked with politics and with political actions, the range of their senses and uses is much broader and, as Amit […]

The W G Sebald Lecture: Michael Longley Mon 20 Feb 2017, 19:00 – 20:30 Book now Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546 Email: boxoffice@bl.uk Full price: £12.00Member: £12.00Under 18: £8.00Other concessions available Michael Longley gives the 2017 W G Sebald Lecture One of Britain’s finest poets, Michael Longley delivers Releasing the Lyric: Translating Latin and Greek, on literary translation. He has received many […]

Department of English and American Studies Translation and Interpreting Section Faculty of Arts, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic is pleased to invite you to the Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc 2017 “Translating the Wor(l)d: Beyond Language” November 10–11, 2017 Since 2011, when it was held for the first time, the Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc has established itself as an open platform […]