Translation Seminar Series

This seminar discusses how subtitles—a common form of audiovisual translation—provide unique insights into multimodal language processing. Integrating visual, auditory, and textual information while watching subtitled videos is cognitively demanding, which requires coordination of different cognitive systems. Drawing on eye-tracking research, the talk presents empirical evidence on how viewers process subtitles, adapt their reading strategies to increasing demands, and how these behaviours differ between adults and children. The session highlights how research on subtitle reading can help us better understand the cognitive mechanisms involved in language processing in digital and multimodal contexts.

In this seminar, Dr. Omid Tofighian explores collaborative translation and creative resistance with displaced and incarcerated people, analyzing literary, political, and philosophical dimensions to challenge border regimes and illuminate new forms of public philosophy.

In this seminar, Dr. Moorkens will introduce his proposal for a Triple Bottom Line for Translation Automation and Sustainability.

In this seminar, Prof. Neather tries to address museological research from the translation studies perspective by exploring how scientific narratives of extinction and climate change are translated in the museum context.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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?”.