Research seminars and talks

The Stirling Centre for Interpreting, Translation and Intercultural Studies hosts regular seminars and talks with fellow experts from the academic community. See topics and speakers from some of our recent seminars below.

Autumn 2022

Past events
Column one shows the event date, column two shows the event time, column three shows the speaker, column four shows the speaker's institution and column five shows the event topic.
DateTimeSpeakerInstitutionSubject
3 November 3:00pm - 4:30pm Natalia Rodríguez Vicente University of Essex Innovative methodologies for Dialogue Interpreting research: insights from the INforMHAA Project

Summer 2022

Past events
Column one shows the event date, column two shows the event time, column three shows the speaker, column four shows the speaker's institution and column five shows the event topic.
DateTimeSpeakerInstitutionSubject
25 May 3:00pm - 4:30pm Aedín Ni Loingsigh and Cristina Johnston University of Stirling Reflections on translating Lilian Thuram's La Pensée blanche into English
1 June 3:00pm - 4:30pm María Sierra Córdoba Serrano McGill University, Canada Trial by Pandemic: Linguistic justice and access to health-related multilingual communication in Canada

The 9th Stirling Annual August Translation Studies Research Events 2022

The 9th Stirling Annual August Translation Studies Research Events, organised by Dr Saihong Li, featured multiple invited talks, over four days, on Tuesdays 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th of August 2022.

The 9th Stirling Annual August Translation Studies Research Events 2022

Tuesday 9 August
9:00-10:00

Design of PPT Slides, Attention Distribution and Interpreting Performance An Eye Tracking Exploration
Professor Defeng Li, University of Macau
Defeng Li biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 9 August
10:00-11:15

Translation … isn’t everything’: Joseph Conrad’s translation of Bruno Winawer’s The Book of Job
Professor Katherine Baxter, Northumbria University
Katherine Baxter biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 16 August
10:00-11:15

Translating the Dead: Solidarity and the Afterlife

Professor David Johnston, Queens’ University Belfast
David Johnston biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 16 August
11:15-12:30

Translation technologies and pandemic emergencies

Professor Miguel A Jiménez-Crespo, Rutgers University
Miguel A Jiménez-Crespo biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 23 August
10:00-11:15

Gender and Translation History

Dr Hilary Brown, University of Birmingham
Hilary Brown biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 23 August
11:15-12:30

Understanding Persuasion in Transcreation of Marketing Texts with Appraisal in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Dr Mavis Ho, University of Edinburgh
Mavis Ho biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 30 August
9:00-10:00

Multilingual life writing by French and Francophone women: Translingual selves

Natalie Edwards, University of Bristol
Natalie Edwards biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 30 August
10:00-11:00

Rhyme and Reason: Poetry translating and the challenge of form

Professor Frances Jones, University of Newcastle
Frances Jones biography and abstract

 

Tuesday 30 August
11:15-12:15

Song Translation Studies – a multivarious business

Dr Johan Franzon, University of Helsinki
Johan Franzon biography and abstract

 

Spring 2022

Past events
Column one shows the event date, column two shows the event time, column three shows the speaker, column four shows the speaker's institution and column five shows the event topic.
DateTimeSpeakerInstitutionSubject
16 March 1:00pm - 2:00pm Dr Christophe Declerq (KU Leuven/UCL) Guest lecture in collaboration with the Literature and Languages Lecture Series.
13 April 3:00pm - 5:00pm Michael Cronin, Esther Monzó Nebot, Vineet Lal Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Éire), Esther Monzó Nebot (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and Vineet Lal (literary translator)

Michael Cronin: “The Sacrifice Zones of Translation Extractivism”

Esther Monzó Nebot’: “The translation double bind. Gendered responses to normative and deviant representations in translating/interpreting cultures”

Vineet Lal: Legitimacy in translation from a non-theoretical perspective

Autumn 2021

Past events
Column one shows the event date, column two shows the event time, column three shows the speaker, column four shows the speaker's institution and column five shows the event topic.
DateTimeSpeakerInstitutionSubject
Wednesday 29 September 4:00pm - 6:00pm Elisa Calvo Universidad Pablo de Olavide Scottish Crime Fiction (Tartan Noir) in Spanish: The Strange Case of Christopher Brookmyre.
Friday 12 November 3:00pm - 4:30pm Dr Heather Adams Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Cognitive load among conference interpreters on the private market: trickier than you might think? 

Summer 2021

Past events
Column one shows the event date, column two shows the event time, column three shows the speaker, column four shows the speaker's institution and column five shows the event topic.
DateTimeSpeakerInstitutionSubject
Wednesday 4th August 9:00am - 10:00am Professor Ricardo Muñoz Martín University of Bologna, Italy

Translating is not (only) problem solving
Wednesday 4th August 10:00am - 11:00am Dr Charlotte Bosseaux University of Edinburgh, UK

Multilingualism in Audiovisual Translation: the Case of Jane the Virgin and its French and Spanish versions
Wednesday 11th August 9:00am - 10:00am Professor Yifeng Sun University of Macau, Macau

Lin Shu’s Translations Revisited: Why and How Did they Work?​
Wednesday 11th August 10:00am - 11:00am Dr Sergey Tyulenev University of Durham, UK

Translation and Diplomacy: The Ins and Outs of Social-Systemic Boundaries
Wednesday 18th August 9:00am - 10:00am Professor Jun Pan Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Moving forward in corpus-based interpreting studies: Challenges, explorations, and prospects
Wednesday 18th August 10:00am - 11:00am Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas University of Surrey, UK

What’s so (im)proper about Aristophanes? Comic book adaptations and translations of comedy plays
Wednesday 25th August 9:00am - 10:00am Dr Johnathan Evans University of Glasgow, UK

Translating the Situationist International 
Wednesday 25th August 10:00am - 11:00am Dr Piotr Blumczynski Queens’ University Belfast, UK

Holy Bones: Translation as a Religious Practice

Other previous events and seminars

SpeakerSubjectDate
Oliver Carreira (English into Spanish freelance translator) Transcreation and Translation Studies: A Welcome Addition to the Discipline or an Empty Term? May 2021
Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) Translating Cultures (SCITIS launch event) April 2021
Dr Misha Vodopyanov (University of Edinburgh) Professional Interpreting: Settings, Challenges, Career Opportunities August 2019
Dr Hongling Liang (University of Glasgow) Francophile Chinese intellectuals approach and theorize the question of education and learning from the 1910s to 1940s August 2019
Dr Caiwen Wang (University of Westminster) Translators’ mediation in practice August 2019
Dr Amy Hui Li (University of Strathclyde) Translation and Identity Construction: wall panel translation in Chinese museums August 2019
Dr Alan Ning Huang (University of Strathclyde) Plurilingualism: Teachers implementing languages education principles in the classroom August 2019
Dr Ying Yan (University of Leicester) Styling Translation: Genre, Author and Translator August 2019
Prof. Boping Yuan (University of Cambridge) Findings in second language research and their implications for learning English and Chinese as foreign languages August 2019
Prof. Daniel Gile (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle – Paris 3) Contribution of theory and research into translation and interpreting to T&I practice October 2019
Prof. Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London) Professional Aspects of Audiovisual Translation November 2019
Prof Victoria Lai Cheng (LEI University of Macau) Researching Cognitive Processes in Translation August 2020