A Forum for Translation, Interpreting and Cultural Encounter – This is the Queen’s University Research Forum in Translation, Interpreting and Cultural Encounter. As our name suggests, we explore translation and interpreting both as models for the uprooted, de-centred imagination, and as practices that prompt us, as readers, writers and listeners, to look outwards from the…
This evening’s Monday-Night Seminar is the annual PhD showcase, in which a selection of our PhD students give five-minute ‘speed’ presentations on their research. The showcase session is always a lot of fun and provides an interesting overview of the breadth and depth of postgraduate research in translation and interpreting studies being carried out at…
The next Monday Night seminar on translation and interpreting at QUB will be held on Monday 26th October. Our speaker this time is Professor Dorothy Kenny of Dublin City University, who’ll be talking about ‘Tech Talk and Innovation Bias? An Alternative Approach to Translation Technology.’ The seminar starts at 7 pm and will take…
Yangyang Long, PhD student in Translation Studies, researching Lin Yutang and cultural exchange between China and the West, reports on the First International Conference on Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality…. Our very own Professor David Johnston and Dr Stephen Kelly, along with four of our PhD students, Sally Gillespie, Kathleen Kaess, Laurence Besnard-Scott and Yangyang…
The first semester of 2015-2016 has begun in earnest, meaning new students of translation and interpreting studies at Queen’s have entered the PhD and MA cohorts (more news about them later). It also means a new Monday Night Seminar series, organised in conjunction with QUB’s Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, is about…
Our very own Dr Piotr Blumczyński, lecturer in translation studies at QUB, is giving a guest lecture today at the Centre for Translation at the Hong Kong Baptist University. The lecture of is part of Piotr’s three-week visit to China, where he’s been teaching and promoting translation and interpreting at Queen’s. The theme of the…
Sign language interpreter and QUB interpreting studies PhD candidate, Sally Gillespie, gives her take on Samsung’s viral video advert, “Hearing Hands”… “A world without interpreters like me? Perfect! As a practising interpreter, it may seem odd that my idea of Utopia includes no opportunity for me to do the job I love. My idea of…
The Boy at the Back http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z9jr8 Professor David Johnston’s award-winning translation and adaptation for radio of Juan Mayorga’s Boy at the Back, which recently won a BBC Radio Audio Drama of the Year Award, will be re-broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 22 March at 10.00 pm. Mayorga is Spain’s leading contemporary dramatist, a unique voice…
Stéphanie Brown, PhD candidate in modern languages at QUB, thinks this article by Sean O’Hagan in the Guardian (25 November 2014), on the challenges of opening one of the world’s biggest photography galleries in Marrakech, Morocco, raises important questions about negotiations between cultures: O’Hagan: “For most local people [in Marrakech], photography means one thing: the often…
Sarah Buchanan, PhD candidate in Translation Studies researching Bible translation, reports on Prof. Daniel Newman’s recent lecture to postgraduate students of translation and interpreting at QUB. Prof. Newman is a renowned Arabist and head of Modern Languages at Durham University. “On 9 March 2015, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Newman from Durham University, as…
Online registration for the QUB translation & interpreting postgraduate conference (June 2015), “Territories of Understanding: Conflict and Encounter”, will open on Monday 16th March. The registration fee of £30 includes lunch on both days of the conference, lots of tea, coffee and biscuits, a social event in Queen’s Great Hall with wine, soft drinks and…