All CTISS events are currently only offered online through Zoom. BSL or International Sign interpreting or captions are available if needed.
Upcoming events
Ethnography of communication: a continuum?
17 May 2022 16:00-17:00
Prof. Claudia V. Angelelli & Dr. Annelies Kusters, Heriot Watt University
Mediation techniques: comparing professional & non-professional interpreters
3 May 2022 16:00-17:00
Prof. Jemina Napier, Heriot Watt University
Project EBIC: Empowering Brazil impoverished communities through critical thinking: the role of language mediation
13 April 2022 16:00-18:00
Prof. Claudia V. Angelelli, Heriot Watt University
Prof. Maico Roris, Dr. Geisa Mulla & Dayane Costa (Ph.D. Candidate), Universidade Federal de Goiás
Elena Langdon & Daniel Maciel, Acolá Language Services
Translation of geographic fictions and construction of place imagination
29 March 2022 16:00-17:00
Dr. Min-Hsiu Liao WIP
Translating Perspectives in Holocaust Memorial Museums in Poland: Experiences, Hypotheses, Challenges
10 March 2022 11:00-12:00
Dr. Dorota Goluch, Cardiff University
Dr. Agnieszka Podpora, Independent Researcher
Training the Art Translator
8 March 2022 16:00-17:00
Prof. Dr. Monika Krein-Kühle, TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne
Researching the impact of translation in memorial museums and engaging with museum visitors: methodological issues
3 March 2022 11:00-12:00
Dr Kyung Hye Kim, Shanghai International Studies University
Initiating and Boosting Stakeholder Engagement around Translation: A look at the Heritage and Museum Sector
1 March 2022 16:00-17:00
Dr. Sharon Deane-Cox & Dr Pauline Côme, University of Strathclyde
Past events
Integrating self-assessment activities in online and blended-learning environments
Presenters:
Claudia Angelelli & Khadidja Merakchi – Heriot-Watt University
Exploring ethics and bias in sign language interpreting
Presenters:
Jeff Brattan-Wilson, ASLI
Ben Fletcher, deaf professional
Jacqui Beckford, IOCN
Jo Drugan, University of East Anglia
Chance Walton-Ashmore, VLP
Robert G. Lee, UCLan
Exploring BSL on TV
Jordan Fenlon & Annelies Kusters – Heriot-Watt University
Christopher Stone, University of Wolverhampton & guest panelists
Translation and Narrative Theory: from the Arab Spring to the Deserts of Qatar
Presenters:
Sofian Abdeldayem, Heriot-Watt University
Sue-Ann Harding, Queens University Belfast
Joint IRC-CTISS hosted SGSAH Cultural and Museum Studies Discipline+ Catalyst event: Ethnographic Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities (part 2)
Participants:
Academics & PhD students from Heriot-Watt University & University of Aberdeen, external practitioners
Joint IRC-CTISS hosted SGSAH Cultural and Museum Studies Discipline+ Catalyst event: Ethnographic Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities (part 1)
Participants:
Academics & PhD students from Heriot-Watt University & University of Aberdeen, external practitioners
Translating and Transcreating Picturebooks: Negotiating the Verbal and the Visual
Presenter:
Anne Ketola, Tampere University
Researching interactional variation across settings: impact on interpreter’s role
Presenters:
Eloisa Monteoliva, Heriot-Watt University
Natalia Rodriguez, Heriot-Watt University
Jonathan Ross, Bogazichi University
Joint CTISS-IRC hosted event Translating Scotland’s Heritage Research Network Public Event: Accessing Heritage
Presenters:
Anna Fineman, Vocal Eyes
Ellen Adams, King’s College London
Approaching Public Policy in Translation Studies
Presenter:
Dr Gabriel González Núñez’, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)