Conference programme: The Challenge and Promise of Interdisciplinarity, 13-15 October 2017

September 8, 2017 Events

Friday 13 October 2017

08.00-08.40	Registration
08.40-09.15	Welcome Address and Launch of Centre
09.15-10.15	*Plenary I*	Kaisa Koskinen, University of Tampere, Finland A Conversation across Disciplines and Communities: Public Sociology, Public Translation Studies and Revitalizing an Endangered Language via Translation Chair: Yifan Zhu, Jiao Tong Baker Centre
10.15-10.45	Tea/Coffee
10.45-11.45	*Panel I*	Interdisciplinarity in Practice Chair: Li Dang, Jiao Tong Baker Centre
	10.45-11.15	Heather Connelly, Birmingham City University, UK Gabriela Saldanha, University of Birmingham, UK Art Practice and Translation: A Call for Collaboration
	11.15-11.45	Lingjuan Fan, Ningxia University, China The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity: A Personal Account of an Academic Journey
11.45-13.00	Lunch
13.00-14.30	*Workshop I*	Esperança Bielsa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Sue-Ann Harding, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland Ji-Hae Kang, Ajou University, South Korea Interdisciplinarity in Researching the News
14.30-15.00	Tea/Coffee
15.00-16.30	*Panel II*	Corpus-Based Studies Chair: Sue-Ann Harding, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland
	15.00-15.30	Jan Buts, University of Manchester, UK Corpus Linguistics, Alchemy, and that Obscure Object of Translation Studies
	15.30-16.00	Elaine Ng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China A Corpus Stylistics Study of a Chinese Translation of Mental Clauses and Speech and Thought Presentation in Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love
	16.00-16.30	Tao Li, Shanghai Ocean University, China Investigating the National Images of Self and Others in the English Translation of Chinese Political Discourse: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis Approach

Saturday 14 October 2017

09.00-10.00	*Plenary II*	Ren Wen, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China The Evolution of Interpreters’ (Code of) Ethics in China’s Mainland after 1949: A Sociological and Historical Perspective Chair: Mona Baker, Jiao Tong Baker Centre, China and the University of Manchester, UK
10.00-10.20	Tea/Coffee
10.20-11.50	*Panel III*	New Environments of Translation Chair: Kyung-Hye Kim, Jiao Tong Baker Centre, China
	10.20-10.50	Anne Ketola, University of Tampere, Finland Translation Research as a Means to Model Word–Image Interaction
	10.50-11.20	Soon Mi Kim, Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea How the Translation World Can Survive in the Age of AI: A Model from the Business Administration Field
	11.20-11.50	Qian Bao, Dalian University of Technology, China Research on the Cognitive Mapping and Projecting by APP-using Translation Students
11.50-13.00	Lunch
13.00-14.15	*Workshop II*	Hephzibah Israel, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Robert Neather, Hong Kong Baptist University Interdisciplinarity in Researching Sacred Text
14.15-14.45	Tea/Coffee
14.45-16.15	*Panel IV*	Researching Online Communities Chair: Luis Pérez-González, University of Manchester, UK
	14.45-15.15	Chuan Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Understanding Online Translation Communities as Communities of Practice: The Case of Yeeyan
	15.15-15.45	Henry Jones, University of Manchester, UK Researching Translation in/and Wikipedia: An interdisciplinary approach
	15.45-16.15	Xiaoping Wu, University of Macao, China User-Generated Translation in the Age of Participatory Media: A Case Study of Subtitling Practices on Bilibili
16.15-16.45	Tea/Coffee
16.45-17.45	*Panel V*	Researching Literary Translation Chair: Brian Baer, Kent State University, USA
	16.45-17.15	Youngshin Kim, Anyang University, South Korea Language Contact and Translator Identity as Represented in Korean Fiction during the Post-Colonial Era
	17.15-17.45	Xiuhua Ni, Guangzhou University, China Cultural Diplomacy in the Outward Translation of Chinese Literature in the Early Years of the PRC (1949-1966)

Sunday 15 October 2017

09.00-10.00	*Plenary III*	Luis Pérez-González, University of Manchester, UK (A)(E)ffecting Translation in the Digital Culture Chair: Robert Neather, Hong Kong Baptist University
10.00-10.20	Tea/Coffee
10.20-10.50	*Panel VI*	Sociological Perspectives Chair: Esperança Bielsa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
	10.20-10.50	Jitka Zehnalová & Helena Kubátová, Palacký University, Czech Republic Translation Studies and Sociology: A “Methodology” of the Cooperation among Translation Scholars and a Sociologist (Three Encounters, Three Crossroads, Three Challenges)
	10.50-11.20	Minhui Xu, Ocean University of China Sociological Formation and Reception of Translation – With Border Town as a Case Study
	11.20-11.50	Shima Tayebi Jazayeri, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran Translation Studies and Gender Studies in Iran: An Interdisciplinary Approach
11.50-13.15	Lunch
13.15-14.15	*Panel VII*	Theoretical Perspectives Chair: Ren Wen, Sichuan University, China
	13.15-13.45	Xiaowei Chen, Fuzhou University, China New Rhetoric and Translation Studies: Promises and Challenges
	13.45-14.15	Chung An Chang, National Taiwan Normal University Qian Zhongshu’s Concept of huajing and the Question of Interdisciplinarity
14.15-14.30	Short break
14.30-15.30	*Plenary IV*	Brian James Baer, Kent State University, USA Deep Interdisciplinarity, or Confronting the Fact of Translation across the Humanities and Social Sciences Chair: Hephzibah Israel, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
15.30-16.30	Roundtable Discussion
16.30	Closing