Category: Events

4th Jordan International Conference on Translation – The Translation Role in Building Nations Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan 22-23 March 2017 Contact: ashunnaq1@yahoo.com; shunnaq@yu.edu.jo

Genealogies of Knowledge I Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space University of Manchester 7-9 December 2017 Dissemination, Contestation, and Mediation of Knowledge between Asia and the West   Convenors: Kyung Hye Kim, Dang Li, Yifan Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Call for Panel Papers (Adobe PDF) The dialogue between the West and the East continues to be […]

Call for Panel Papers: Translation and Health Humanities: The Role of Translated Personal Narratives in the Co-creation of Medical Knowledge University of Manchester 7-9 December 2017 Translation and Health Humanities: The Role of Translated Personal Narratives in the Co-creation of Medical Knowledge Convenor: Şebnem Susam-Saraeva University of Edinburgh Call for Panel Papers (Adobe PDF) Medicine, as an ‘applied science’, has […]

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 relations, […]

Theme of the Conference   The 8th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies will be held on the 30th June 2017 at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 28th, 2017. Abstracts must be submitted using the on-line form. The […]

10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND TRANSLATION STUDIES   LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION: THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE 30-31 March 2017 Timişoara Given the success of PCTS9 in 2015, the 10th anniversary edition of the conference aims to continue the exchange of ideas on the impact of new technologies on communication, to highlight the evolution of humanities and social sciences in conjunction […]

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, […]