Research seminars and talks
The Stirling Centre for Interpreting, Translation and Intercultural Studies hosts regular seminars and talks with fellow experts from the academic community. See topics and speakers from some of our recent seminars below.
Spring 2022
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 March | 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Dr Christophe Declerq | (KU Leuven/UCL) | Guest lecture in collaboration with the Literature and Languages Lecture Series. |
| 13 April | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Michael Cronin, Esther Monzó Nebot, Vineet Lal | Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Éire), Esther Monzó Nebot (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and Vineet Lal (literary translator) |
Michael Cronin: “The Sacrifice Zones of Translation Extractivism” Esther Monzó Nebot’: “The translation double bind. Gendered responses to normative and deviant representations in translating/interpreting cultures” Vineet Lal: Legitimacy in translation from a non-theoretical perspective |
Autumn 2021
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 29 September | 4:00pm - 6:00pm | Elisa Calvo | Universidad Pablo de Olavide | Scottish Crime Fiction (Tartan Noir) in Spanish: The Strange Case of Christopher Brookmyre. |
| Friday 12 November | 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Dr Heather Adams | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | Cognitive load among conference interpreters on the private market: trickier than you might think? |
Summer 2021
| Date | Time | Speaker | Institution | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 4th August | 9:00am - 10:00am | Professor Ricardo Muñoz Martín | University of Bologna, Italy |
Translating is not (only) problem solving |
| Wednesday 4th August | 10:00am - 11:00am | Dr Charlotte Bosseaux | University of Edinburgh, UK |
Multilingualism in Audiovisual Translation: the Case of Jane the Virgin and its French and Spanish versions |
| Wednesday 11th August | 9:00am - 10:00am | Professor Yifeng Sun | University of Macau, Macau |
Lin Shu’s Translations Revisited: Why and How Did they Work? |
| Wednesday 11th August | 10:00am - 11:00am | Dr Sergey Tyulenev | University of Durham, UK |
Translation and Diplomacy: The Ins and Outs of Social-Systemic Boundaries |
| Wednesday 18th August | 9:00am - 10:00am | Professor Jun Pan | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
Moving forward in corpus-based interpreting studies: Challenges, explorations, and prospects |
| Wednesday 18th August | 10:00am - 11:00am | Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas | University of Surrey, UK |
What’s so (im)proper about Aristophanes? Comic book adaptations and translations of comedy plays |
| Wednesday 25th August | 9:00am - 10:00am | Dr Johnathan Evans | University of Glasgow, UK |
Translating the Situationist International |
| Wednesday 25th August | 10:00am - 11:00am | Dr Piotr Blumczynski | Queens’ University Belfast, UK |
Holy Bones: Translation as a Religious Practice |
Other previous events and seminars
| Speaker | Subject | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Oliver Carreira (English into Spanish freelance translator) | Transcreation and Translation Studies: A Welcome Addition to the Discipline or an Empty Term? | May 2021 |
| Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) | Translating Cultures (SCITIS launch event) | April 2021 |
| Dr Misha Vodopyanov (University of Edinburgh) | Professional Interpreting: Settings, Challenges, Career Opportunities | August 2019 |
| Dr Hongling Liang (University of Glasgow) | Francophile Chinese intellectuals approach and theorize the question of education and learning from the 1910s to 1940s | August 2019 |
| Dr Caiwen Wang (University of Westminster) | Translators’ mediation in practice | August 2019 |
| Dr Amy Hui Li (University of Strathclyde) | Translation and Identity Construction: wall panel translation in Chinese museums | August 2019 |
| Dr Alan Ning Huang (University of Strathclyde) | Plurilingualism: Teachers implementing languages education principles in the classroom | August 2019 |
| Dr Ying Yan (University of Leicester) | Styling Translation: Genre, Author and Translator | August 2019 |
| Prof. Boping Yuan (University of Cambridge) | Findings in second language research and their implications for learning English and Chinese as foreign languages | August 2019 |
| Prof. Daniel Gile (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle – Paris 3) | Contribution of theory and research into translation and interpreting to T&I practice | October 2019 |
| Prof. Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London) | Professional Aspects of Audiovisual Translation | November 2019 |
| Prof Victoria Lai Cheng (LEI University of Macau) | Researching Cognitive Processes in Translation | August 2020 |