Dr Yunfei Bai reconstructs a series of interreligious conversations that took place in 1945 at Mount Gongga between two Western journalists, George Henry Johnston (1912–1970) and James Cobb Burke (1915–1964), and various members of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist community based at Mount Gongga. This encounter during the republican period may serve as a historical precedent for rethinking the protracted contacts between Tibetan Buddhism and other epistemological traditions in the present day.
Interpreters’ Joint Responsibility in Crimes
Professor Kayoko Takeda will will discuss the issues of individual interpreters’ legal responsibility and ethical choices in unlawful or potentially unlawful acts. based on her research and new book "Interpreters and War Crimes" (Routledge).
Brothers from Another Mother? Examining the Relationship between Signed Language and Spoken Language Interpreting
Professor Brenda Nicodemus will explore the similarities and differences between spoken and signed language interpreting by discussing our respective histories, educational backgrounds, credentialing, and research.
Cross-genre Translation of Scientific Texts for Young People
Professor Alice Deignan will describe a project that used corpus linguistic techniques to examine texts on the topic of climate change from expert genres, such as policy reports and academic articles, and materials for school students.
Translator Ethics: From Cooperation to Risk and Trust
This talk will seek to connect a restated ethics of cooperation with more recent models of risk management, trust, and behavior change, mostly with examples from COVID-19 communications.
The Global Shift to Virtual Multilingual Meetings and Remote Simultaneous Interpretation: A Seminal Event for the Interpreting Profession or a Flash in the Pan?
No one could have foreseen the far-reaching and devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on international gatherings and the interpreting profession in early 2020. Suddenly, multilingual online meetings were the only way for international organizations to continue their work, and RSI became the principal source of work for thousands of interpreters.
Professor Olsen will introduce to you In this online seminar the recent history and development of remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI) and more.
The Behavioral Economics of Translating World Literature: Translators as Econs, Humans, and Queers
This talk applies the model of "Behavioral economics" to the translational decision-making that converts national literatures into world literature—but in expanded form, with “Humans” split into Masculine Humans, Feminine Humans, and Queers.
冷戰下的翻譯：香港與台灣
冷戰期間，香港和台灣都在美國的保護傘之下，位於圍堵共產中國的前緣。然而，事實上兩地都頗為依賴中國的翻譯。一方面，兩地譯者絕大多數為出生於中國的流亡知識份子，彼此關係密切，另一方面則是大量使用中國譯者的譯作。
Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom: Judicial Interpreting in Hong Kong
This presentation explores a unique courtroom in the common-law jurisdiction. This uniqueness is particularly characterised by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society and the presence of court participants who are proficient in both languages.
Tracking the Framing of Political Figures across the Multilingual Wikipedia
A number of approaches can be used to detect the presence of translation in Wikipedia: identifying the rare cases where its presence is documented, comparing extracts from different parallel articles or digging back into the articles’ history to discover the origin of translated text fragments.