by Jonathan Downie Academics are as much followers of fashion as any lover of Dior or Calvin Klein. Sure, it might not be the latest fragrances or the newest haute couture but research tends to be concentrated around a few themes. In Interpreting Studies, the 70s and 80s were the age of cognitive research, mostly […]
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The Manchester terror drill – and why we must stop linking Arabic with fanatics
This article was first published in ‘The Conversation’ https://theconversation.com/uk by Máiréad Nic Craith Greater Manchester Police staged a mock attack featuring a suicide bomber late on the night of Monday May 9. It began at the Trafford Centre shopping complex when a man in black walked into the centre of the main foyer and shouted “Allahu Akbar” […]
RADAR Workshop: From Hate Speech to Hate Communication
“From hate speech to hate communication: How racism is produced and reflected through communicative practices” Free training workshop 16th and 17th June 2016 George Davies Lecture Theatre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism (Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271) is an EU-funded programme that brings together nine partners from six countries. […]
Critical Link 8 keynote speakers and pre-conference events
This year’s Critical Link 8 Conference, which will be hosted in LINCS by CTISS, is going to be big. We are delighted to announce the Keynote Speakers: The Rt Hon Lord Carloway, Lord President and Lord Justice General, the most senior judge in Scotland and Head of the Scottish Judiciary Professor Laura Gavioli, Professor of English Language and Translation […]
EIRSS 2016 programme updated!
This year’s Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School (EIRSS) is taking place on 04 – 08 July 2016, right after Critical Link 8. We are delighted to have Daniel Gile as our guest speaker again this year. Professor Gile was also our guest speaker in the inaugural EIRSS in 2013. The EIRSS is designed to offer intensive research […]
Justisigns Translation workshop
By Jemina Napier Click here to see a version of this blogpost in BSL. As part of the Justisigns project, which is funded through the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme, a masterclass was run in November 2015 jointly between the Heriot-Watt University BSL/Justisigns team and Police Scotland and included CID/police interview […]
Translating Cultures Peru / Traduciendo Culturas Perù
by Raquel De Pedro Ricoy “Unequal exchanges: The role of Peruvian indigenous translators and interpreters in resource-exploitation consultation processes” Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. 14:15-17:15, 12 April 2016 The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot- Watt University will host a symposium on the role of Peruvian indigenous translators and interpreters in consultations […]
Translating the Deaf Self: An update
By Jemina Napier Click here to see a BSL version of the blog Members of Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies Scotland (Jemina Napier and Robert Skinner) are working in collaboration with researchers from the Social Research with Deaf People (SORD) group at the University of Manchester (Alys Young and Rosemary Oram) […]
New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st Century” – Heriot-Watt University, 26th & 27th May 2016
Congratulations to Nicola Bermingham (Heriot-Watt University, Dept. LINCS) and Gwennan Higham (Cardiff University) for their success in the BAAL/Cambridge University Press 2015-2016 seminar competition. The seminar, entitled “New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st Century”, will be held in Heriot-Watt University on 26th and 27th May 2016. This event will […]