Thursday 6 October 2011

translation seminars in Edinburgh

Readers in Scotland may be interested in this year's excellent line-up for the joint series of translation seminars run by Heriot Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. The seminars are free and all are welcome.

Seminars on the Translation Profession

Liisa Muinonen, freelance translator
Things can only get better? Working as a freelance translator
Wed., 5 Oct. 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, University of Edinburgh

Jonathan Downie, freelance translator
tbc
Wed., 30 Nov. 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, Heriot-Watt University

Andrea Joyce, Associate Rights Director, Canongate Books
Selling Foreign Rights
Wed., 1 Feb. 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, University of Edinburgh

Annette Schiller, Schiller Translations
The business of translation and interpreting
Wed., 29 Feb 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, Heriot-Watt Universit

Venues, unless indicated otherwise
§  at University of Edinburgh: George Square,07 Psychology Building, Room  F21
§  at Heriot Watt University: Lecture Theatre 3


Research Seminars:

Angela Kershaw, University of Birmingham
Ir̬ne N̩mirovsky and Suite fran̤aise РIssues of Translation and Reception in Holocaust Literature
Wed., 28 Sept 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, Heriot-Watt University, Lecture Theatre 3

Frederic Chaume, Universitat Jaume I
Dubbing in Europe: Professional Issues and Norms
Wed., 19 Oct. 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, University of Edinburgh

Valerie Henitiuk, University of East Anglia
The Bones of the Stuff: Translation and the Worlding of Literatures
Wed., 16 Nov. 2011, 4.00-5.30pm, Heriot-Watt University, Lecture Theatre 3

Denise Merkle, Université de Moncton
Translation: Compliance, Conversion, Assimilation
Wed., 23 Nov. 2011, 4.00-5.30, University of Edinburgh

Julie Boeri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Exploring the Sociology of Translation and Interpreting: A Narrative Model of Analysis and a Case Study of Interpreting
Wed., 25 Jan. 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, Heriot-Watt University, Postgraduate Centre G.01

Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham
Phraseology and Evaluative Language: Issues in Corpus Linguistics
Wed., 8 Feb. 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, University of Edinburgh

Yvonne Fowler, Aston University
Interpreting into the Ether: Prison Video Link in the Multilingual Courtroom
Wed., 21 March 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, University of Edinburgh

Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd.
Corpus Methods and Corpus Tools in Linguistics, Lexicography and Translation
Wed., 28 March 2012, 4.00-5.30pm, Heriot-Watt University, Postgraduate Centre G.01

Venues, unless indicated otherwise
§  at University of Edinburgh: Psychology Building, George Square 07, (F21)
§  at Heriot Watt University: Sem 1: Lecture Theatre 3, Sem 2: Postgraduate Centre G.01

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