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

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

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

• LeCTIS Seminar Series 2021/22

2020-21

• LeCTIS Seminar Series 2020/21

2019-20

• Building bridges 2020
• LeCTIS Seminar Series 2019/20 (PDF, 201kb)

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.