by Paola Ruffo The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt hosted the 13th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI), 9-10 November 2017 IPCITI is an annual postgraduate conference organised by students for students and it marks the consolidation of the collaboration between Dublin City University, Manchester University, the University of […]
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MacFarlane Prize 2017 for Dr Emma Hill !
LINCS and IRC graduate Dr Emma Hill has won the prestigious 2017 MacFarlane Prize for the most outstanding contribution to the research of the University. Emma (pictured here with her supervisors, Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith and Dr Katerina Strani), is the first ever recipient of the prize from any department in the School of Social Sciences. […]
LINCS interpreters at the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
by Josemari Conde and Ramon Inglada As the curtain falls on the 2017 Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF), it is time to look back at 10 days of great films, fine Spanish food and interesting Q&A sessions with actors, directors and producers. It is also a good time to celebrate yet another successful collaboration between […]
LINCS collaboration with the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
by José María Conde and Ramón Inglada The 2017 Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF) starts on Thursday October 5th and will run in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling until October 31st. This is the 4th edition of the festival and LINCS is collaborating with the ESFF once more, this time as a ‘Major Sponsor’: http://www.edinburghspanishfilmfestival.com/sponsors/ This […]
Celebrate International Translation Day 2017 with us
International Translation Day is celebrated every year on the 30th of September, the day of the feast of St Jerome, who was a Bible translator and is considered today as the patron saint of translators. LINCS is celebrating this important day with an event focused on 21st century translators and translation research. There will be talks […]
Congress of the International Federation of Translators & Interpreters, Brisbane, Australia, August 2017
by Jemina Napier <Click here to see the blog post in International Sign> Recently I went to Australia as I had been invited as a keynote speaker at the International Federation of Translators & Interpreters (FIT) world congress in Brisbane. This was a historic moment at the FIT congress, as it was the first time […]
Moving Languages Newsletter – Summer 2017
by Katerina Strani This newsletter is also available in Finnish, Italian and Swedish. Moving Languages is an Erasmus+ international project with partners in 6 EU countries. In this project, we are developing a mobile application for refugees, migrants and other language learners who have just arrived in their new country in Europe and want to learn […]
LINCS hosts mega-conference on Innovations in Deaf Studies
by Annelies Kusters In late 2016, I got the idea to organise a small (!) book launch when I realised that I could gather at least five of the authors of “Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars” together at the same time and place. At that time, I could never have […]
DGI SCIC virtual classes starting in LINCS !
by Fanny Chouc LINCS held its first virtual conference interpreting class in cooperation with SCIC today, with a select group of talented MA and MSc students. Thanks to the support of our AV team, we were able to set up the system used by SCIC to provide pedagogical assistance in interpreting training institutions across Europe. […]
BSL-team goes USA
by Emmy Kauling, Jemina Napier, Svenja Wurm, Heather Mole and Rob Skinner For a BSL version of this post, please click here Last month, the Heriot-Watt BSL-team was well represented at the 2017 Interpretation and Translation Research Symposium at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in the States: Prof Jemina Napier, Dr Svenja Wurm, and three […]