Category: Events

2017 Portsmouth Translation Conference Saturday 4 November 2017, University of Portsmouth Confirmed Keynote speaker:  Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University. Since Clayton Christensen expounded in his seminal book Innovator’s Dilemma how a small-scale but innovative digital technology can overthrow large established businesses overnight, the idea of digital disruption has been causing both excitement and concern in businesses worldwide, from financial

Hong Kong Baptist University 3-6 July, 2018 The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) is delighted to announce that its 6th conference will take place from 3-6 July, 2018 at Hong Kong Baptist University. The 6th IATIS conference theme is “Translation and Cultural Mobility”, and contributions are welcomed in the form of panel sessions, individual papers, workshops and poster

Ragusa, 19 – 20 October 2017 The literary translation of Camilleri’s series of detective stories featuring Inspector Montalbano are the subject of annual seminars (2013-2016) organised by the University of Cagliari. The forthcoming  conference, Ragusa and Montalbano: translating Camilleri’s regionalised voices in AVT,  is also  a response to those studies and research. However, Montalbano’s global fame is undeniably closely linked

University of Cyprus, Nicosia November 10-12, 2017 The three disciplines of Adaptation Studies, Semiotics, and Translation Studies share a common interest in the transference of texts across modes of signification such as textual, visual, oral, aural, gestural or kinesic. More particularly, Semiotics looks into the interpretation of signs in various semiotic systems, Intersemiotic Translation (Jakobson 1959)1renders linguistic texts into nonverbal

11-13 May 2017, Warsaw SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities Call for Papers Though dissent and protest seem to be strongly linked with politics and with political actions, the range of their senses and uses is much broader and, as Amit Chaudhuri has noticed, dissent is inscribed in the very idea of the literary which, “in its resistance to

7-9 December 2017 1st Call for Papers call-for-papers-2017-conference The production and circulation of knowledge across temporal and cultural spaces is a well-established research theme among classicists and historians of political thought, ideas, science and medicine, but recent developments have opened up new perspectives on this area of study. The study of social knowledge flows has advanced our understanding of these

Between History and Memory Deadline for submission of proposals extended to 30 November 2016 1st Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting 9-10 March 2017 Hong Kong Baptist University   Call for Proposals With an aim to promote the study of interpreting in Hong Kong and the greater China area, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is launching a biennial