Talks and other Events

In this public lecture, renowned filmmaker and writer Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche will share insights on adaptation, rewriting, and directing, focusing on transforming stories, philosophy, and cultural values into visual narratives. Drawing from his filmmaking experience, especially his recent film Pig at the Crossing, he will discuss illustrating Buddhist concepts like bardo—the state between death and rebirth—through cinema. Rinpoche will discuss the creative blending of texts, philosophy, and poetic visuals, highlighting the challenges of adapting ideas across cultures and media. The lecture will offer reflections on reshaping narrative and medium to make complex concepts accessible to wider audiences.

對談簡介： 有說，散文是種關於經驗的技藝。不過，假如一個人的經驗乏善足陳，又可以如何下筆書寫散文？在抒陳自我的生命經驗以外，散文的繁雜與野性，或許還能容納更多，譬如思想。從頭回顧散文的傳統，究竟可以發現甚麼？散文與文學理論，又是否有重合之處？ 講者簡介： 葉梓誦 寫作、評論、翻譯、編輯，現為《字花》主編。2016年共同創辦文藝評論雜誌《SAMPLE》。散文集《斷層路徑》獲梁實秋散文大師獎，合譯有《困頓之書》等。 對談嘉賓簡介： 譚以諾 曾寫小說，間中寫評論，有時做出版 曾繁裕 倫敦大學國王學院比較文學博士，香港浸會大學中文系助理教授，主理散文創作課程。

About the Speaker: Mr Yağmur Çakmak born in Turkey, after completing my full education in UK returned to Turkey to work in the shipping industry. Moved to Bodrum / Turkey where I have been living for the past 19 years. Started working for a law firm as a translator then resigned to work for myself […]

Mr. Colman Tse will provide a brief introduction to artificial neural networks (ANNs) and their application in neural machine translation (NMT).

Dr. Enoch Cheung will talk about intersemiotic relations which offer a dynamic lens for understanding contemporary art by revealing how different sign systems interact and generate meaning across artistic disciplines.

Dr. Renée Desjardins will talk about different approaches to translating the pandemic and public health information to Manitobans during the height of the Covid-19 crisis (2020-2022)

Professor Daniel Gile will relate how he became aware of fundamental cognitive challenges in conference interpreting as a student and how he theorized them later into explanatory ‘Effort Models’, with simple cognitive processes and cognitive problem triggers that account for recurring performance weaknesses in the interpreters’ output.

Professor Jonathan Locke Hart will discuss the historical context of translation in literature and religion, examines the role of translation and cultural encounter between English and other languages.

**Resources & References** (changes may be made to the contents by the workshop leader) Talk: Overview of Digital Research Methods in the Arts and Humanities This talk will explore how digital research methods can be adopted in translation studies research and teaching in order to collect, prepare, analyze, visualize and present research data. It will […]

Professor Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo will present an overview of the main methodological issues in the study of translated digital texts and potential avenues for research.

Professor Bart Defrancq will argue that corpus-based interpreting studies should resist the appeal of theoretical frameworks that have inspired many translation scholars working on translation corpora, i.e. the universals of translation framework. Rather, a rich corpus of interpreting, even of limited size, can reveal many interesting facts about interpreting that experimental setups could never lay bare.

Dr Adolfo M. García will survey the tenets of relevant neuroscientific techniques, review the evidence they have afforded regarding IR, and outline key questions for further research, with the focus on behavioral and neuropsychological methods, positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and electroencephalography (EEG). In doing so, he aims to foster a more active involvement of cognitive translatologists in brain-based research.

The lecture is about conceptual foundations and distinctions, influential ideas about interpreting, models of interpreting and paradigms in Interpreting Studies.

Although imagology, the field studying national and cultural images, for decades has focused on literary discourse, recently there is a tendency to include forms of recontextualization in non-fiction. In modern media societies, journalistic discourse is highly influential in producing and distributing national and cultural stereotyping.

Dialogue Title: 語言鑑證 vs 鑑證語言

The idea of prefiguration originally derived from anarchist discourse; it involves experimenting with currently available means in such a way that they come to mirror or actualize the political ideals that inform a movement, thus collapsing the traditional distinction between means and ends.

Research in neuroscience is changing the way human mental and physical faculties are understood. Most disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are being shifted by the findings of the new science of mind. This presentation is a preliminary exploration of some of the implications of research in neuroscience for translation studies. Under standings of both the processes and products of translation are opened up by what has already been discovered.

Research in neuroscience is changing the way human mental and physical faculties are understood. Most disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are being shifted by the findings of the new science of mind. This presentation is a preliminary exploration of some of the implications of research in neuroscience for translation studies.

This lecture explores the paradox that poetry, which has often been dismissed by translation studies scholars as untranslatable has in practice been endlessly translated, often well translated over time, and figures prominently in any account of World Literature.

Co-organizers in the UK: The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London (UCL), and the Translation Studies Graduate Programme at the University of Edinburgh

Co-organizers in the UK: The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London (UCL), and the Translation Studies Graduate Programme at the University of Edinburgh

Rhetoric includes poetics, the production of texts, as well as aesthetics, the analysis and appreciation of texts. But rhetorics vary from one culture to another. Each culture has its own hermeneutic circle for interpreting its own cultural references, but one culture’s hermeneutics may not be commensurable with another culture’s literary traditions or imaginaire.

Co-organizers in the UK: The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London (UCL), and the Translation Studies Graduate Programme at the University of Edinburgh

The interpreter’s role generally assumes three dimensions: the interpreter’s own attitudes towards his/her role, the institutional requirements specified in the codes of conduct for professional interpreting, and the expectations and attitudes that interpreting service users have of the interpreter.

Having graduated from a postgraduate course at the English Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1965, Shi Yanhua began to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Between 1971 and 1975, she stationed at the UN headquarters to interpret and translate for China’s permanent representative and deputy permanent representative.

Ambassador Wu is currently Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Member and Vice President of the European Academy of Sciences, Member of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Professor of China Foreign Affairs University, and Honorary President of the International Bureau of Exhibitions (BIE).

Co-organizers in the UK: The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London (UCL), and the Translation Studies Graduate Programme at the University of Edinburgh

In November 1998, the Centre organised a Postgraduate Students Conference on “Translation, Culture and Ideology”. First of its kind in the translation academic field in Hong Kong, the conference provided local postgraduate students with valuable exposure and an opportunity not only to exchange their views but also to benefit from the comments of local teaching staff who attended the conference.

(jointly organized with the Faculty of Arts, HKBU)

(jointly organized with the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong)