Dr. Curran will discuss how platformization and its underlying logic have facilitated the rise of a new category of language instructor who combines language and culture instruction with entertaining content and a distinctive self-brand: the platform language teacherpreneur (PLT)
Conference Interpreting at International Organisations
Dr. Lucía Ruiz Rosendo will describe the characteristics of interpreting in international organisations, through a summary of the research carried out thus far, and drawing on her own experience as a researcher, conference interpreter trainer and interpreter at international organisations.
Tom, Dick and Harry as Well as Fido and Puss in Boots are Translators: The Implications of Biosemiotics for Translation Studies
While investigating the Peircean definition of meaning as ‘the translation of a sign into another system of signs’, in particular the ways in which this kind of thinking has evolved in the modern field of biosemiotics, the speaker attempts to address the asymmetry both in the relationships between human and non-human animals and in the attention that translation studies pays to this power dynamic.
Unfulfilled Hong Kong Dreams: The Works of Two Intercultural Dramatists – Augustine Mok and Danny Yung
The speaker will discuss the respective visions for Hong Kong that the two dramatists - Augustine Mok and Danny Yung - have worked towards since the 1980s and the factors that have prevented their fulfilment in the 21st century.
Community Interpreting in Australia: Policies, Structures, Training, Certification, Industry and Client Needs, and the Profiles of Contemporary Community Interpreters
As Australia is now seen as a country that has extensive infrastructure for community interpreting, the speaker seeks to provide answers to two questions: “How did community interpreting become so extensive in Australia?” and “What do we know about those who provide and who use community interpreting services?”.
一位《壇經》《道德經》漢藏翻譯者的經驗分享
講者為三藏教授師佛學博士堪布，將與參加者分享翻譯《六祖壇經》和《道德經》過程中的個人點滴和心路歷程。
My Appointment with Onegin: Charles Johnston, Douglas Hofstadter and Stanley Mitchell
Dr. Ponomareva will focus on evaluating the presence of the translator in his or her work by looking at various book covers and the paratext of three translations of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1830s) into English. It will be shown that these translators had appointed themselves to offer their Onegin(s) to English-speaking audiences as, with various degrees of self-confidence, they were sure that they were famous enough to advertise their translations and to attract their prospective readers, sometimes even more then Pushkin himself.
Artificial Communication: AI and Interpreting
Professor Setton will explore some of the challenges to human-compatible machine interpreting (MI), as acknowledged by its designers, through a view of linguistic communication from a different, more humanities-oriented branch of cognitive science, rooted in the observation of ordinary language: i.e., pragmatics, and in particular, relevance theory.
Annotations Still Matter: The National Bible Society of Scotland’s Annotated Proverbs in the Mandarin Union Version (1933)
Dr. Mak will explain why the National Bible Society of Scotland (NBSS), one of the major Bible publishers and distributors in late Qing and Republican China, published its annotated edition of Proverbs in the Mandarin Union Version in the early 1930s, more than three decades after the NBSS became the first Bible society to publish annotated Chinese Gospels and Acts in the 1890s
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Translation
Dr. Siu will offer insights into how financial translators can capitalize on state-of-the-art language applications in the era of generative AI.