Category: Events

Translation and Censorship (Panel) 20 February 2017, 14:00 – 16:00 Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building   Francesca Billiani (Manchester) Federico Federici (UCL) Rory Finnin (Cambridge)   Any text can be read as an expression of a given culture or ideology. The translated text, in mediating the author’s voice through that of the translator, presents a complex juxtaposition of ideological […]

Call for Papers: PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMUNITY INTERPRETING IN AFRICA On the 6 October 2017, the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will host a 1-day workshop organized by the Swiss Society for African Studies (www.sagw.ch/en/africa.html) and the Institute of Multilingualism (www.institute-multilingualism.ch). Linguistic diversity in African societies involves a wide range of translating and interpreting practices among […]

4th International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation, Interpreting and Language Acquisition   Date 3-4 November 2017   Venue Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China   Organizers Center for Translation Studies, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University   Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) University of Macau   We are pleased to announce […]

Call for Papers The University of Manchester, 16th June 2017   We are proud to announce Women on the Verge: Transformations in Literature, Gender and Society, the first of a planned series of one-day conferences aimed at PhD students and early career scholars from across the Humanities and beyond. The conference aims to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for discussion, […]

Spring School on Experimental and Corpus Linguistics   This spring school offers a two-day compact course on experimental and corpus linguistics. The participants will acquire the necessary knowledge to handle corpora and experimental data sets for research and teaching purposes. The sessions will involve lectures and lab practice. Labs will include practice with tools to design linguistic experiments (e-prime) and […]

CLASA2017 Conference of the Language Associations of Southern Africa   On behalf of the Organizing Committee and School of Languages and Literatures: African Language Studies Section Rhodes University, we would like to welcome you to CLASA 2017 Conference website. This years focus is on: Multilingualism and Transformation in the Knowledge Age  The conference will be held at the Rhodes University Convention Centre from 26 June 2017 […]

TraFilm Conference Call for Papers A remarkable number of films and television shows display more than one language (Inglourious Basterds, Jane the Virgin, The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones…); they include different languages or a language with significant internal variation. The translation of such written and audiovisual texts poses important theoretical and practical challenges, since language variation can […]

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 […]