(14 to 16 July 2023) Congratulations to Dr Eloisa Monteoliva and the academic team (Kate Ferguson, Juliette Rutherford, Tania Aitken, Sarah Goulding) for the huge success of the first online version of the English Retour Interpreting Summer School (14 to 16 July 2023). The course was attended by 12 professional interpreters with the following […]
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Roundtable on literary translation
This event was held on Friday 9th June, and streamed online via Zoom. It was interpreted live by M.A. and MSc students, with the spoken interpreters working either remotely or on-site in the LINCS interpreting labs. There were 61 registrations for the event, with a mixture of university students and school pupils, and 150 views […]
Transformations in European Societies
By Chiara Cocco and Leri Price In May 2023, members of the IRC visited Berlin to take part in the Transformations in European Societies (TiES) doctoral programme. TiES connects doctoral students and academic staff from selected universities in Scotland, Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Israel, and Denmark through a biannual programme of seminars and presentations. […]
LINCS students go to Brussels!
On the 6th and 7th of June, 11 of our M.A. and MSc students who specialise in conference interpreting were welcomed at the EU Commission by EU interpreters from the Directorate General for Interpretation. This 2-day visit, which LINCS was able to secure thanks to its status as DGI-SCIC university partner, was hosted by Joanne […]
Summer School registrations closing soon – membership discounts
The LINCS Summer school courses are a fantastic opportunity to enhance your interpreting and translation skills, but registrations are closing soon (30 April 2023). Our courses include one 3-day and one 5-day course in interpreting, as well as a 4-day Translation Summer School. For the translation summer school, you can register for the full package […]
BSL Science Signs Workshop at Gallaudet University
Gary Quinn, from the BSL section of LINCS, was invited to give a presentation about BSL Science Signs at the STEM Sign Language Lexicon Founders and Leaders Workshop at Gallaudet University in Washington on 2nd March. This photo of Gary is courtesy of Dr. Erin Moriarty-Harrelson (one of the Mobile Deaf team). The man next to Gary is […]
The annual Multilingual Debate is back on campus!
LINCS hosted its annual multilingual debate on Wednesday 29 March. It was wonderful to be back on campus after an interruption of 3 years, to relaunch this special occasion on site. This annual event has been running for more than twenty years now, and although it was disrupted by the pandemic and had to be held […]
Sign Neologisms workshop in Athens
In February 2023, Gary Quinn, from the BSL section of LINCS, attended the Sign Neologisms workshop in Athens, Greece, to present an e-poster about the BSL Glossary Project on workflow and ethics. This workshop focussed on how signs develop for new terms in European countries. It brought together many different specialists working on lexical gaps […]
Roundtable on starting work in the audiovisual translation industry
Hybrid event: 30 March 2023 at 02.30 BST Are you interested in a language career, but don’t have a foreign language up your sleeve? Are you a talented bilingual or multilingual, but not sure what to do with those amazing talents? Are you a cinephile who dreams of rubbing shoulders with films directors and script […]
Silent Harm Project Launch – Domestic Abuse Questionnaire
By Jemina Napier & Lucy Clark This blogpost is a translation from a vlogpost generated in British Sign Language (BSL): https://youtu.be/b0PgPzxVjvI In this v/blogpost Jemina Napier and Lucy Clark from the SIGNS@HWU team in the Centre of Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt University discuss an exciting new project. You may have […]