CfP. Performing Translation: Translatorship in the 21st Century

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A reminder that there is still time to send your proposals for our conference Performing Translation: Translatorship in the 21st Century, which will take place in UCC in June 2019. The CfP is available below:   Performing Translation: Translatorship in the 21st Century Project DaRT – Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) University College Cork, Ireland 21-22nd June …

Book Publication. Stone Girl, by Mary Noonan

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Congratulations to our wonderful colleague Mary Noonan from the French Department at UCC on the publication of her latest poetry book, Stone Girl.   The poems in Stone Girl, Mary Noonan’s second collection, are beguiled by the fascination of stone, especially stone statues of women – the statue of the Virgin carried through the streets of Seville to the bullring …

JULY 19, 2018. Teaching Translation

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Workshop by Anabel Galán-Mañas On the 19th July 2018, Project DaRT and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork was lucky enough to welcome Dr. Anabel Galán-Mañas from the Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació i d’Estudis de l’Àsia Oriental at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Whilst undertaking a research stay in Cork, Dr Galán-Mañas was kind …

APRIL 9-13, 2018. Translation Week

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Project DaRT and University College Cork present a complete week of events for anybody with an interest in the theory and practice of translation. Join us for a number of workshops, taster lessons, and research seminars featuring scholars and practitioners with experience in a wide range of areas within the discipline. ALL WELCOME!   Monday, 9th April CAREERS WITH LANGUAGES …

APRIL 10, 2018. Translation Matters: Public Translation Studies & Workplace Research

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Thanks to the support of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, we are delighted to be receiving Prof. Kaisa Koskinen from University of Tampere on Tuesday 10th April 2018 for one of the key events of Translation Week. Workshop – 12 pm: Public …

MARCH 23, 2018. Rafts of Translations: Digital Horizons

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Seminar by Prof Tom Cheesman Dr Tom Cheesman, from Swansea University, will be with us on Friday the 23rd of March to give a workshop of the use of digital and corpus tools to analyse multi-retranslations and a seminar about his work in the area, which includes Vision Variation Visualisation, a multilingual crowdsourcing of Shakespeare’s Othello.  For those who would like …

JANUARY 26, 2018. What Makes a Translation Difficult?

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Workshop by Sophie Hughes 26 January 2018. ORB 1.32 Literary translator Sophie Hughes will be in UCC next Friday, the 26th of January, to give a 2-hour translation workshop (11-1 in ORB 1.32). Departing from the idea that theory is meaningless without the practice that engenders it and that, at the same time, practice can be influenced and benefit from …