1 – 10 March 2022 A short webinar series This online event, made up of 4 related webinars held over 2 weeks, is co-hosted by the Training Committee, International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and The Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS), at Heriot-Watt University. Museum translation, an encompassing term […]
Tag: heritage
59°N – IRC PhD Student based in Orkney
by Cait McCullagh Have you ever had the opportunity to peer at some of the many online depictions of Ptolemy’s 2nd Century AD Geography? You’ll have had to turn your head to one side in order to take in the northern-most extent of Scotland, including the Northern Isles; bent over and squeezed to fit into the realm of what was then […]
Active learning at a World Heritage Site
by Cristina Clopot At the end of November, LINCS students on the Global Heritage course, which is part of the MSc in Cultural Resource Management, went on a visit to the Edinburgh World Heritage Centre. What better way to compliment academic learning than by a discussion with experienced professionals? Luckily enough we live and work […]
Sign Language in Action
by Jemina Napier Click here to see this blog in International Sign, British Sign Language or Irish Sign Language Sign Language in Action is a new book just published by Palgrave as part of the Research & Practice in Applied Linguistics series. The book is co-authored by Jemina Napier and Lorraine Leeson, who both have […]
Intangible Heritage: Why should we care?
Prof Mairead Nic Craith on why we should care about ICH @ TEDx Heriot-Watt
Translating Cultures and the Mediation of Indigenous Rights in Peru
While we were all busy teaching, marking papers, setting exams, attending conferences and writing papers, Dr Raquel de Pedro Ricoy spent part of the first semester in the jungle. Literally. Raquel is working on an AHRC-funded project entitled “Translating Cultures and the Mediation of Indigenous Rights in Peru” with Prof. Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle University) and […]
Heritage research and practice
Last week saw the launch of A Companion to Heritage Studies, a major reference work for Heritage research and practice, co-edited by Prof Máiréad Nic Craith and Prof Ulli Kockel from the IRC as well as Prof William Logan of Deakin University, Melbourne. A Companion to Heritage Studies is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art interdisciplinary reference work for the study of cultural heritage, published […]
17th September 2015: A momentous day for the BSL Community
by Graham Turner On a most extraordinary afternoon last week (17th September 2015, a date to be remembered), it seemed that half of Heriot-Watt’s Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies re-located to the Scottish Parliament for a few hours. Why? It was the Stage 3 (final) reading in the chamber of the British Sign Language […]
Passing as deaf or hearing: choosing cross-cultural identities
by Noel O’Connell On 15th June 2015, media reports raised questions about Rachel Dolezal’s background. A scholar of race and African-American culture and daughter of white parents, Dolezal had identified as Black. Stories of black people “passing” as white or white people as black have been a fascination for researchers and historians for many years. Racial […]
Roots and Routes of Germans in Contemporary Britain
by Ullrich Kockel In socio-cultural research, there has been a long-running argument pitching “roots” against “routes” as the source of identity. At a time when identities appear to become ever more detached from territorial connections, it makes sense to define cultural belonging in terms of the intensity of communication within one’s social field, even though […]