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.

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.

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 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.