Agenda11:30 Registration (for poster presenters)12:00 Opening Remarks: Prof Bailey, Dean of DHSS12:10 Sharing: Student Representative12:15  Sharing: Student Representative12:20 Award Ceremony13:00 Poster Presentation

Abstract:Translation and interpreting are two different yet closely related activities. Likewise, the relationship between Translation Studies (TS) and Interpreting Studies (IS) is often debated. In this talk, the guest will compare the differences and similarities between the practice of translation and interpreting and discuss the research topics and methods of pedagogical research in TS and ...

DHSS Lecture Series: Postdigital Wanghong(网红): Conceptual Turn(s)

Translating with Infinite Possibilitie

Abstract: The lecture will begin with a legend of the 6th-century Irish saint Kevin and go on to discuss the nature and requirement of literary studies. Date: 14 April 2021 (Wed) Time: 1 pm – 3 pm Venue: T5-104

Dear all, Welcome to the third lunch-time research sharing session this Friday noon from 12:00-13:00 at T2-301. This time we are very happy to welcome Dr. Jessica Medhurst from Beijing Normal University (Beijing) to share her recent research. Her topic of sharing is:Freedom, Restriction and Forgetting: The Chinese Girl Child in Anglophone Children’s Literature (1901-1907) Attached please fin...

AbstractAmid persisting poverty, widening inequality and increasing environmental deterioration, societies across the globe have begun to reflect on – and question - the modern, dominant notion of development, still largely based on the tenets of the (first) Enlightenment. A new, compassionate, holistic form of development inspired by a “Second Enlightenment”, which draws on principles of co...