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
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.