2017 events

October 2017

Why does language matter to translation?

• Thursday 12 October 2017
• Speaker: Professor Kirsten Malmkjӕr, University of Leicester

The role of interpreters in history: Analysis of several major historical events in early Sino-British contact

• Thursday 19 October 2017
• Speaker: Dr Binhua Wang, University of Leeds

Factors influencing the translator’s choice of foreignization and domestication in the translation into Arabic of neologisms and idioms in the Harry Potter series

• Thursday 26 October 2017
• Speaker: Alshaymaa Alharbi, University of Leicester

November 2017

Early modern Latin: Imagined community or universal language?

• Thursday 2 November 2017
• Speaker: Professor Sarah Knight, University of Leicester

History of translation and Euclid’s Elements

• Thursday 16 November 2017
• Speaker: Professor Myriam Salama-Carr, University of Manchester

Journeys in Translation

• Thursday 23 November 2017
• Poets and translators who will be taking part include Ambrose Musiyiwa, Elvire Roberts, Liz Byfield, and Pam Thompson
• In association with the University of Sanctuary initiative and the Leicester Migration Network

A multi-faith, multilingual, and multimodal study: Translations in St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

• Thursday 30 November 2017
• Speaker: Dr Michelle Min-Hsiu Liao, Herriot-Watt University

December 2017

Hermeneutics for translators; or, cultural translation in action

• Thursday 7 December 2017
• Speaker: Dr Sarah Maitland, Goldsmiths, University of London