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)