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

2021-22

Semester Two

Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4pm on MS Teams. For further information and a joining link, please contact: LeicesterCTIS@leicester.ac.uk

3 February 2022

• Speaker: Dr Alex Mével (University of Nottingham)
• Title: Integrated, Immersive, Inclusive – creating captioning solutions for the stage

10 February 2022

• Speaker: James Hewlett (RWS Group)
• Title: Careers in the Translation and Localisation Industry (Part 2 – Workshop)

17 February 2022

• Speaker: Cécile Pasquet (Translator and subtitler)
• Title: Audiovisual Translation

24 February 2022

Reading week - no seminar

3 March 2022

• Speaker: Sheam Khan (University of Leicester)
• Title: Examining the Influence of the Translator's Ideology on the Message of the Qur'an

10 March 2022

• Speaker: Dr Cathy McAteer (University of Exeter)
• Title: Translating Great Russian Literature: Behind the Scenes at Penguin Russian Classics

17 March 2022

• Speaker: Helen Wagner (Freelance Translator)
• Title: Life beyond the MA. How your dissertation can open doors.

Semester One 

21 October 2021

• Speaker: Prof. Kirsten Malmkjær (University of Leicester)
• Title: Who knows best? Style, meaning and the Smilla controversy

28 October 2021

• Speakers: Dr Ahmed Elimam & Alysia Fletcher (University of Leicester)
• Title: The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account

4 November 2021

• Speaker: Jie Deng (University of Leicester)
• Title: Archive Research in Translation Studies: A Case Study of Chinese Classics

18 November 2021

• Speaker: Sui He (University of Edinburgh)
• Title: Cognitive Metaphor Theories in Translation Studies: Towards a dual-model parametric approach

26 November 2021

• Speaker: Prof. Zhu Chunshen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Title: Positive Translation Studies: What Why How

2 December 2021

• Speaker: James Hewlett (RWS/SDL)
• Title: Careers in the Translation and Localisation Industry

Past

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.