Events
We organise regular research seminars and conferences and host visiting speakers. In the past, the Centre has played host to such events as the AHRC-funded Translating Cultures Network Key Cultural Texts in Translation, and from November 2012 to July 2013 the Centre collaborated with the Intercultural Studies Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) and the European Society for Translation Studies on a research project on translation in language learning, commissioned by the Directorate General for Translation of the European Union.
Forthcoming
LeCTIS Seminar Series - Semester one, 2023-24
Please note that events occur on various different days of the week this semester (please see schedule below) and some events will take place in person and others are on Teams.
Teams links will be circulated the day before an event. Please contact leicesterctis@leicester.ac.uk for more information and to join a Teams event.
Thursday 19 October, 4.00pm (Attenborough, ATT 205)
- Speaker: Prof Kirsten Malmkjær, University of Leicester
- Title: Language, Translation and Empathy
Friday 27 October, 12.00pm (on Teams)
- Speakers: Dr Tung-jung Chen (translator) and Dr Yao-Chang Chen (author), Association of Taiwanese Literature
- Title: When Aboriginal Tribes Encountered Nations/Empires: The Task of Translating Puppet Flower
Thursday 2 November, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Daisy Towers (PhD Candidate), University of Leeds
- Title: The Renarration of Mercè Rodoreda: Exile, Trauma and Identity in Translation
Wednesday 15 November, 4.00pm (Room TBC)
- Speaker: Claire Storey (translator) and Federico Ivanier (author), Freelance translator and author
- Title: Translating Never Tell Anyone Your Name by Federico Ivanier, translated by Claire Storey
Thursday 23 November, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speakers: Dr Yvonne Fowler (Freelance interpreter)
- Title: Public Service Interpreting
Friday 1 December, 12.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Dr Feng Cui, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Title: Society, Language, and Translation: Observations and Reflections on the Translation Phenomenon in Singapore
Building Bridges between University Programmes and Translation Profession, Thursday 18 May 2023, 6.00-7.30pm - A great opportunity to meet with award-winning translators and leading translation agencies on campus!
LeCTIS Annual Lecture with Professor Anthony Pym, Tuesday 23 May 2023, 12.00-1.30pm - Online event via Microsoft Teams
LeCTIS Semester two, 2022-23
Thursday 2 February, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Tingwen Xu, University of Leicester
- Title: Chinese Detective Genre as World Literature: A Study of the Judge Dee Series
Thursday 9 February, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Dr Jenny Wong, University of Birmingham
- Title: Significance of women’s involvement in (re)translating the Chinese Bible
Thursday 16 February, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Pauline Côme, University of Strathclyde
- Title: Translating heritage for international audiences: translation production and reception in Scottish heritage attractions
Thursday 2 March, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Dr Hongwei Bao, University of Nottingham
- Title: Translating for Social Change in a Time of Crisis
Thursday 9 March, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Christian Degueldre, Professional Interpreter and Translator
- Title: An International Career as translator/interpreter
Thursday 16 March, 4.00pm (on Teams)
- Speaker: Dr Ahmed Elimam, University of Leicester
- Title: Book Launch: Arabic-English-Arabic Literary Translation, Issues and Strategies
LeCTIS Semester one, 2022-23
Thursday 3 November, 4.00pm (on Teams, link tbc)
- Speaker: Professor Francis Jones, University of Newcastle (Joint seminar with Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies)
- Title: Faithfulness versus loyalty – a poetry-translating point of view
Wednesday 23 November, 1.00pm (George Davies Centre Boardroom)
- Speaker: Dr Mila Milani, University of Warwick (Joint seminar with Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies)
- Title: Translation and transnational networks in the publishing field: editors, translators, and politics in post-war Italy
Wednesday 14 December, 1.00pm (George Davies Centre Boardroom)
- Speaker: Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente, University of Leicester
- Title: Precarious lives: Biopolitical effects and affects of the 2008 Crisis in two contemporary Spanish novels
For further information please email Lesley Wylie, lw136@le.ac.uk
Past
2021-22
2020-21
2019-20
2018
- LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018/19
- Building bridges - Creating links between university programmes and the professional translation industry
- Research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations'
- Towards Transnational Feminist Translation and Translation Studies
- Crime fiction in translation
- Insights into the language of dubbing: naturalness and spontaneity vs. standardisation and artificiality
- Thick Translation of Chin Ping Mei by David Roy: Type, Function and Features
- Performability and performativity in the English translation of Federico García Lorca's rural trilogy
2017
See a list of events which took place between October and December 2017.