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

Date: May 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

Presenters:
Claudia Angelelli & Khadidja Merakchi – Heriot-Watt University

Exploring ethics and bias in sign language interpreting

Date: May 22, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

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

Date: April 28, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

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

Date: April 27, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

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)

Date: March 16, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

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)

Date: March 4, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

Participants:
Academics & PhD students from Heriot-Watt University & University of Aberdeen, external practitioners

Translating and Transcreating Picturebooks: Negotiating the Verbal and the Visual

Date: March 2, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

Presenter:
Anne Ketola, Tampere University

Researching interactional variation across settings:  impact on interpreter’s role

Date: February 25, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

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

Date: February 23, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

Presenters:
Anna Fineman, Vocal Eyes
Ellen Adams, King’s College London

Approaching Public Policy in Translation Studies

Date: February 9, 2021
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Zoom
Open webinar panel

Presenter:
Dr Gabriel González Núñez’, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)