Category: Events

An international conference FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018 Call for Papers In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would

An ARTIS Event University of Nottingham, UK 12 September 2018 Broadly understood as the thresholds through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have been shown to play a crucial role in the reception and interpretation of texts. While Gérard Genette’s original theorisation of paratexts took place in the context of literary print culture, in recent years the concept has

Department of Translation The Chinese University of Hong Kong 10-12 December 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS / PANELS This conference on translation and space, organized by the Department of Translation at CUHK, follows on the success of our 2016 conference “Translation and Time: Exploring the Temporal Dimension of Cross-cultural Transfer.” Space and spatial metaphors for translation have been more prevalent in

First International Research Training Event Organised by the Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies Shanghai, China 29-30 June 2018   Workshop Leaders Dr Sameh Hanna, University of Leeds, UK Professor Mona Baker, Director of the Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies A growing number of studies are now acknowledging the role that paratexts play

Università L’Orientale, Naples Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati 8-9 February 2018 2nd Valencia/Napoli Colloquium on Gender and Translation Translating/Interpreting LSP through a Gender Perspective   CALL FOR PAPERS The Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati of the Università di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ and The GenText Research Group of the Universitat de València organize jointly the second Valencia/Napoli Colloquium

9th Annual International Translation Conference Translation & Interpreting Institute, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar March 27th – 28th  2018 Call for papers The time is past when digital technology in translation was no more than a supporting tool. The digital revolution is transforming the landscape of translation theory and practice. From translation memory tools to online corpora and databases, to

    Launch of Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 13-15 October 2017 Invited Speakers and Workshop Leaders Keynotes and Workshops Abstracts Registration (now open) Conference Programme 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, FinlandA Conversation across Disciplines