Workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) at Swansea University

Swansea University, Keir Hardie Building 149, College of Arts and Humanities, Sketty SA2 8PP

Swansea Translating and Interpreting Group is delighted to announce two 2-day workshops at Swansea University on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) – part of the Open World Research Initiative: "Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community" - Translingual Strand, with additional support from Swansea’s Language Research Centre. First Workshop: 25-26 January 2019 Keynote speaker Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Professor in […]

Poet in the Archives: Michael Hamburger

The British Library 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB

An evening of readings and discussion at The British Library in celebration of the life, work and legacy of poet-translator Michael Hamburger. Preceded by a drinks reception from 18:15 in the Eliot Room. Michael Hamburger, whose archive came to the British Library after his death in 2007, translated many of the great German and Austrian […]

Living with/on the Border: writers, language and identity in north-east Italy from the end of World War II to the present.

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This conference examines writing and identity in north-east Italy. We will explore the experiences, reflected in writers from the 1940s to the present, of the migrations of peoples between ex-Yugoslavia and Italy as a result of the end of WWII and its on-going aftermath. These experiences were often traumatic and are reflected in culture, language […]

Workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) at Swansea University

Swansea University, Keir Hardie Building 149, College of Arts and Humanities, Sketty SA2 8PP

Swansea Translating and Interpreting Group is delighted to announce two 2-day workshops at Swansea University on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) – part of the Open World Research Initiative: "Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community" - Translingual Strand, with additional support from Swansea’s Language Research Centre. First Workshop: 25-26 January 2019 Keynote speaker Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Professor in […]

Celebrating Multilingualism on the Page and in the Classroom

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Are you a literary translator interested in multilingual writing? Or a secondary school English teacher with multilingual students in your classes? Join us for an afternoon of parallel workshops exploring how hybrid identities express themselves creatively on the page and in the classroom, and how you can harness that creativity in your work. The workshops […]

Translating Women: Breaking Borders and Building Bridges in the English-language Book Industry

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Deadline: 17 May 2019 Conference dates: 31 October - 1 November 2019, Senate House, University of London Organisers: Dr Olga Castro (Aston University), co-editor of Feminist Translation Studies (Routledge, 2017). Dr Helen Vassallo (University of Exeter), principal investigator of the Translating Women project. Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR/OWRI, co-director Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's […]