You read her guest post last month. Now read what Michelle Hof, aka InterpDiaries thought of the first ever Edinburgh International Research Summer School.
Category: Events and News
IPCITI Update
If you are disappointed that the submission date for abstracts to the IPCITI conference has now passed, we have good news for you: registration is open and will remain open until one month before the start of the conference. With a lineup of guest speakers including: Claudia Angelleli, Delia Chiaro, Elena Davitti and LINCS’ own […]
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 […]
An Unheard of Adventure
As readers of this blog may be aware, LINCS has established interests not only in translation and interpreting, but also in intercultural studies. Of growing significance in this respect is research about cultural heritage. The heritage of speakers of English, French, Arabic and so on is well understood – though many questions inevitably remain to […]
Spitting the Dummy at Government Inaction
Records of British Sign Language may date back to the 16th century, but it took until 18th March 2003 for formal governmental recognition to be secured for the language anywhere in the UK. Ten years later, many Deaf (and hearing) people – including Heriot-Watt’s staff and students with an interest in this community – are […]
BAAL Conference – Update
We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for the BAAL conference has been extended to the 22nd March.
Men, Music and Masculinity
Staff Seminar, 6 February 2013 led by Dr Chris Tinker, Reader in French, Studies in European & International Cultures & Societies (SEICS) Research Group ‘Midlife Pop Masculinities in the Here and Now’ In a recent staff seminar Chris Tinker – whose research focuses on popular music and media in France and Britain – examined recent […]
Changes to LifeinLINCS
From next week, you will see some exciting changes to LifeinLINCS. The most obvious is the addition of a new editor Zhao Xiao, posting under the name Yifuren. Xiao is one of a couple of new editors we are hoping to add. The second change is that, in addition to discussing Translation and Interpreting, the […]
IPCITI Comes to Heriot-Watt
Last week we announced that the BAAL conference is shortly coming to Heriot-Watt. This week we are pleased to announce that the International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) will be taking place here on 14-16th November too. The IPCITI Conference is the result of a long-term collaboration between Dublin City University, Heriot-Watt University, […]