Past events
A curated selection of past events.
- 17th January 2018 - 'Translating cultures: variations on a theme'. Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool).
- 24th January 2018 - 'A comparative study of styles of self-translators and standard translators working on the same source texts'. Wang Xi (University of Edinburgh).
- 31st January 2018 - 'Contemporary Russian literature in translation: Tatyana Tolstaya'. Mikhail Vodopyanov (University of Edinburgh).
- 7th February 2018 - 'Translation and Transfeminist activism. Some Italian scenarios'. Michela Baldo (University of Hull).
- 14th February 2018 - 'Prickly Puffins: Translating (pseudo-)profanities and other emotive language in Norwegian children’s literature'. Guy Puzey (University of Edinburgh).
- 21st February 2018 - 'Us vs. Them: Autonomous and heteronomous interpreting practices in the history of signed language interpreting.' Nadja Grbic (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz).
- 28th February 2018 - 'The endless translation of the Situationists.' Jonathan Evans (University of Portsmouth).
- 7th March 2018 - 'Translating linguistic variation in contemporary Scottish fiction.' PhD candidate, Karin Bosshard (University of Edinburgh).
- 14th March 2018 - 'Feminist Translation Studies in a transnational world: the joys and challenges of building alliances.' Olga Castro (Aston University Birmingham).
- 21st March 2018 - 'Ghosts of Ghosts: Pa negre and the Spanish Civil War Genre.' PhD candidate, Alice Kilpatrick (University of Edinburgh).
- 28th March 2018 - 'Fansub translations.' Jan Pedersen (Stockholm University).
- 27th September 2017 - 'Heteronormatising Shakespeare: Czech and Slovak sonnet translations in a changing socio-political landscape.' PhD candidate, Eva Spišiaková (University of Edinburgh).
- 4th October 2017 - 'Translation and anarchism in Catalonia (1898-1910).' Dr Sergi Mainer (University of Edinburgh).
- 11th October 2018 - 'Temporalities of Translation in the May Fourth Discursive Sphere – On Wu Mi’s discussions about translation, imitation, and literary creation.' PhD candidate, Yumiao Bao (University of Edinburgh).
- 25th October 2017 - 'Translating Fantastic Fiction.' Anikó Sohár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest).
- 1st November 2017 - 'Language and Power in Irish courts in the Nineteenth Century.' Mary Phelan (Dublin City University).
- 8th November 2017 - 'Translation in the public sphere.' Sergey Tyulenev (Durham University).
- 15th November 2017 - 'La mina del tango.' PhD candidate, Elaine Newton-Bruzza (University of Edinburgh).
- 22nd November 2017 - 'The case of French dubbing: deconstructing and reconstructing Julianne Moore.' Dr Charlotte Bosseaux (University of Edinburgh).
- 18th January 2017 - 'Subjectivity, language and the neoliberal régimes of translation.' PhD student, Alice Kilpatrick (University of Edinburgh).
- 1st February 2017 - 'Subtitling Multilingualism: Strategies and Approaches.' PhD student, Alice Kilpatrick (University of Edinburgh).
- 8th February 2017 - '‘I will try to speak in German’: Filip Müller’s Auschwitz testimonies and the (non-)problem of translation.' Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh).
- 15th February 2017 - 'Translating Linguistic Variation in Contemporary Scottish Fiction - a practice-based PhD project.' PhD student, Karin Bosshard (University of Edinburgh).
- 22nf February 2017 - 'On translating genre: The case of crime fiction.' Dr Karen Seago (University of London).
- 1st March 2017 - 'Visible theatre translation: subtitles, surtitles and supertitles.' Geraldine Brodie (University of London).
- 8th March 2017 - 'Decentering Art History: The Role of Translation.' Dr Claudia Hopkins (University of Edinburgh).
- 15th March 2017 - 'Cultural Markers in Translation: The Case of Lunfardo in Tango Lyrics.' PhD student, Elaine Newton-Bruzza (University of Edinburgh).
- 22nd March 2017 - 'Shifting viewpoints - from Cubist painting to Dialogue Interpreting research.' Raffaela Merlini (University of Macerata, Italy).
- 23rd March 2017 - 'Translating French Opera, the Story of a Module.' Dr Julia Prest (University of St Andrews).