Author: kyunghye.kim

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 […]

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 […]