2017 events
October 2017
Why does language matter to translation?
- Thursday 12 October 2017
- Speaker: Professor Kirsten MalmkjÓ•r, 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