Category: Events

Kathryn Batchelor, Professor of Translation Studies, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society, delivers her Inaugural Lecture: Translation as Microhistory About the lecture Translations are things that we often look through, rather than at. We use translations as tools for overcoming language barriers; we rarely stop and inspect the tools themselves. In this lecture, I argue that there is value […]

By Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Date: Monday 21 October 2019 Time: 1:30-3:30 pm Venue: Shangyuan (上院) building Room 512 (click Here for more details about the venue)   Media, Migration and Discursive Shifts: Strategies of Politicisation and Mediatisation in the European ‘Refugee Crisis’ Michał Krzyżanowski (Örebro University, Sweden)   Abstract: […]

International Conference on Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an (23-25 March 2020): Tensions between Authoritative Translations and Retranslations in Theory and in Practice KU Leuven, Belgium, 23-25 March 2020 CETRA – Centre for Translation Studies at KU Leuven, in collaboration with United Bible Societies, presents a three-day conference dedicated to the theme of retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an. Its […]

5th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation Bridging diverse worlds: expanding roles and contexts of non-professional interpreters and translators June 24 – June 26, 2020 University of Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science Call for papers Due to increased globalisation and migration waves, the research field of non-professional interpreting and translation studies has gained in prominence and acknowledgement in recent […]

ARTIS International Research School Shanghai International Studies University, 6-11 July 2020 Online registration due to open early December 2019 The Media and ARTIS Summer Schools take place on alternate years at SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies Click here for a report on the 2019 Media Summer School The ARTIS International Research School is a new training initiative based on the […]

Celebration of International Translation Day 2019 Description To celebrate International Translation Day 2019, Paul Kearns and Eneida Garcia Villanueva will be delivering two interactive sessions. CPD 4.5 hours. Machine Translation – A help or a hindrance to your translation career? Presented by Paul Kearns The presentation will look at different types of machine translation and discuss some of the current topics […]

5th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation Bridging diverse worlds: expanding roles and contexts of non-professional interpreters and translators  June 24 – June 26, 2020 callforpapersNPIT5.pdf University of Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science Call for papers Due to increased globalisation and migration waves, the research field of non-professional interpreting and translation studies has gained in prominence and acknowledgement in […]

Japanese Pilgrimages: Experiences and Motivations Behind Cultural, Spiritual and Religious Peregrinations from and to East Asia Dates: 5th – 8th June 2020 Venue: School of International Studies, Ryukoku University (Kyoto), Japan Deadline for proposal submission: ​​30th November 2019 Link: https://www.mutualimages.org/2020-workshop   Call for proposals: Pilgrimages are a phenomenon as old as humanity with relevant consequences in the social, economic and […]

33rd Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies Translations, Translators, Interpreters and Subversion / Traductions, traductrices, traducteurs, interprètes et subversion Western University (London, Ontario, Canada) June 1 – 3, 2020 (dates to be confirmed) REGISTRATION The conference will take place under the aegis of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. CATS is not responsible […]

Languages & the Media – Riding the Wave Radisson Dates: 14 – 16 December 2020 Venue: Blu Hotel, Berlin, Germany Deadline for submission: 15th October 2019 Registration: to be confirmed Link: https://www.languages-media.com/index.php   Call for Proposals: The 2020 edition of Languages & the Media, the 13th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media, will be riding the wave of […]