LeCTIS Seminar Series 2020-21

Details

Location: Online on Teams (links will be circulated the day before the event)
Time: 4.00pm - 5.00pm (unless otherwise stated)

For more information, please contact Dr Sara Naylor or Dr Yan Ying at LeicesterCTIS@leicester.ac.uk

This is a free event but external visitors should contact us to request attendance.

Semester Two programme

Thursday 20 May 2021

Building Bridges Event
2021 Building Bridges between University Programmes and Translation Profession

Tuesday 18 May 2021

LeCTIS – The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies Annual Lecture
A conversation between Prof Christina Schäffner (Aston University) & Prof Federico Federici (UCL)

Thursday 18 March 2021

Crafting a Great Translation Dissertation
Naomi Porter, Institute of Translation and Interpreting - Freelance Translators

First Steps into Literary Translation
Claire Storey, Institute of Translation and Interpreting - Freelance Translators

Thursday 11 March 2021

Translating food terminology as cultural and communicative processes: A corpus-based approach
Dr Saihong Li, University of Stirling

Thursday 3 March 2021

Game Localisation: Translating Interactive Entertainment
Dr Xiaochun Zhang, University of Bristol

Thursday 18 February 2021

Hands, Alligators (or Crocodiles?), and the Invisible: Theory and Practice in Translating Children's Literature
Dr B.J. Epstein, University of East Anglia

Thursday 11 February 2021

Multilingualism and Translation in Occupied Belgium and France during the First World War
Prof. Lieven D’Hulst, KU Leuven Belgium

Thursday 2 February (4.15pm start)

The Powerful Voice of the Silent Details in the Translational Stylistics Analysis of Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking 
Margrethe Stuttaford, University of Leicester

Semester One programme

Thursday 22 October 2020

How to Choose a Translation: Method and Beyond
Prof. Kirsten Malmkjær, University of Leicester

Thursday 29 October 2020

Wikipedia as Heterotopia: Exploring translation, community and conflict in the online multilingual encyclopedia
Dr Henry Jones, Aston University

Thursday 5 November 2020

Best Possible Practice in Public Sector Language Services during the Covid-19 Crisis
Mike Orlov from the NRPSI – National Register of Public Service Interpreters

Thursday 19 November 2020

Translating Female Agency
Dr Melina Delmas, University of Birmingham

Thursday 26 November 2020

Ahd Othman, University of Bristol

Thursday 3 December 2020

Journeys in Translation Revisited
Ambrose Musiyiwa (poet), Dr Pietro Deandrea (translator, University of Turin), Dr Monica Manolachi (translator, University of Bucharest)