For the majority of language professionals, the thought of giving three or more years of their life over to sitting in an office, reading papers, writing notes and preparing papers sounds like a punishment. Who in their right mind would leave behind (or at least reduce) their professional workload in favour of spending hours on […]
Month: May 2013
Scotland's Living Heritage
Next week, Prof Máiréad Nic Craith will give her inaugural lecture on world heritage in Scotland. She will look at the importance of historic and listed buildings in Britain and will point to Scotland’ s success in getting world heritage status for five designated sites. Máiréad will focus on the idea of “dúchas” which places […]
Equality for Deaf People
The next EdSign lecture will take place at Heriot-Watt University on 22nd May: ‘Equality for Deaf People’ by Colin Allen, President of the World Federation of the Deaf Wednesday 22nd May 7pm – 8.30pm Where: (PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE, THE EVENT WILL NOW BE IN) Mary Burton Building, Room MBG20, at Heriot-Watt University Directions […]
IPCITI 2013: Speaker Lineup, part I
A few weeks ago, we announced that IPCITI 2013, the International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting would take place here, at Heriot-Watt in November. Now, we are pleased to announce the speakers, starting this week. IPCITI has a tradition of offering workshops as part of the conference program. This year, Professor Jemina Napier, who […]