MARCH 23, 2018. Rafts of Translations: Digital Horizons

Laura Linares EVENTS, TRANSLATION

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 …

FEBRUARY 2, 2018. CASiLaC/SLLC Book Launch

Laura Linares EVENTS

You are all warmly invited to our annual CASiLaC/School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures collective book launch. After last year’s very successful launch(es) it was decided to make it an annual event, and this year we will be celebrating many of the publications from the School from over the last year. DATE: Friday February 2 TIME: 5.00pm VENUE: Staff Common …

JANUARY 26, 2018. What Makes a Translation Difficult?

Laura Linares EVENTS, TRANSLATION

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 …

JANUARY 23|FEBRUARY 20, 2018. Dante Public Lecture Series

Laura Linares EVENTS

The Department of Italian and CASiLaC are pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri • Tues January 23 – Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork) – “Dante’s Envy: Poetry and Punishment in the Court of Vice” • Tues January 30 – Dr Claudia Rossignoli (University of St Andrews) – “Hopes …