Translation Seminar Series

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

Dr. Siu will offer insights into how financial translators can capitalize on state-of-the-art language applications in the era of generative AI.

Professor Hsieh will examine interpreters’ functions and ethical dilemmas in managing cross-cultural care, using data collected from provider-patient interactions and in-depth interviews.

In this presentation, the speaker will share with us the initial findings from his latest research project which investigates a new way of working with machine translation output, designed to help mitigate the “fluency trap”.

In this presentation, the speaker will draw on concepts in agency theory to understand better the factors that influence the ways in which translation services are procured and provided, and address the impact of extant and emergent developments specific to the translation industry.

Professor Oksana Dzera & Dr Taras Shmiher of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv will each give a talk: "Ukrainian Bible Translation: The Case of Resistance and Exile" (by Professor Oksana Dzera) and "Liturgical Translation as a Domain of Translation Studies" (by Dr Taras Shmiher).

Mr James Shea and Dr Dorothy Tse, the co-translators of the book Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong, will read and discuss selected poems of the Hong Kong poet, consider his use of wordplay, and explore the challenges and pleasures of rendering his poems in English.

In this presentation, the speaker will explore the nature of ELF and the potential pitfalls it harbours for interpreters. She will present insights from research looking into ELF in relation to interpreting and translation (ITELF) and discuss preliminary results from the CLINT (Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation) project that uses multiple methods to answer questions relating to whether or not ELF input actually impacts interpreters' processing and performance.

In this presentation, the speaker will introduce an approach called machine translation in language teaching (MTILT), which evolved from translation in language teaching (TILT). The MTILT approach draws on the idea of professional translator training and applies it to foreign language teaching.

This talk is a general introduction to Fathoming Translation as Discursive Experience: Theorization and application (Zhu 2021, Routledge).