Translation Studies is a growing discipline at the University of Glasgow which runs the MSc Translation Studies programmes in Glasgow and Nankai

Glasgow University
Joined July 2012
We're hiring! A permanent part-time lectureship in Translation Studies. Please, forward this opportunity to any colleagues who you think may wish to apply. @GoldsmithsEng jobs.ac.uk/job/CUS796/lectur…
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Hey fellow Glaswegians, So we have a favour to ask.... Everyday, multiple times a day we are told "I had no idea you existed" So could you all please share the hell out of us to let your people know we actually exist. It would really help us! Thanks in Advance.
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10 academic writing skills I wish I had learned as a PhD student (with updated links) A thread ⬇️ 🧵 for PhD students and junior scholars:
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[CFP] Towards equality, diversity and sustainability in streaming: Korean media in the UK and British media in Korea sisubakercentre.org/2022/09/…
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Book now! Free lunchtime talk (online) 20 October, 1-2pm (BST). Prof Akiko Sakamoto (Kansai University) will discuss #MachineTranslation post-editing "How is technology shaping translators' work behaviour and motivation?" For booking, please contact: [email protected]
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CFP for what looks like an awesome conference on streaming Korean culture in the UK and vice versa, organised by Jonathan Evans and Jinsil Choi: streamingkoreauk.gla.ac.uk/i… @ESIST_official @estrans
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🗣️Call for book reviewers🗣️ SwR is looking for writers to review books. Things we dig: indie presses, Latin American lit in translation, weird genre lit, books about movies, books about music, comics, and other cool shit that’s left of the dial.
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There is still time to apply for the @WritersCentre Emerging Translator Mentorships! We have 13 languages on offer this year -- check them out in this thread 👇🏽 #xl8
Apply now! NCW Emerging #Translator Mentorships aims to develop new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English #translation. Deadline: 31 August 2022 nationalcentreforwriting.org…
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Next is "Positioning Lydia Davis," by Jonathan Evans at @GUTranslation. Evans considers the variable—& malleable—genres Davis works in & across, showing how slippery it can be to wedge her output and style(s) into pre-existing literary genealogies. post45.org/?p=17899
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Our fantastic Scopus metrics for 2021: CiteScore up to 3.4 from 2.5 (2020) and SJR up to 1.170 from 1.112 (2020)! JoSTrans is a Q1 journal, ranking #66 out of 968 Language and Linguistics journals in Humanities & #75/1032 L&L journals in Social Sciences. #OpenAccess
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Happy Commemoration Day - the 🌞 is out. ⁦@UofGlasgow⁩ was founded today in 1451. More here about this special UofG day - universitystory.gla.ac.uk/co…
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🚨We are shocked to hear that @RoehamptonUni is proposing to halve the Translation Studies department which has been at the forefront of teaching and research in the fields of translation, audiovisual translation and media accessibility for the past 20 years #RoeStopTheCuts🚨
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Issue 19 (2021) of Revista Tradumàtica is available online! Dossier 'Studying Human-Computer Interaction in Translation and Interpreting: Software and Applications' Guest editors M. Koponen (@mtkoponen), L. Nunes Vieira (@lnunesvieira) & N. Spinolo. tuit.cat/ugm9s TOC 👇
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FUSP – Nida Centre for Advanced Research on Translation Summer School 2022 23 May – 3 June 2022 Exploring translational modes: practices, objects, life forms Application deadline: 31 January 2022 fusp.it/summer-school_74.htm…
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We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation is 'An Inventory of Losses' by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by @jackietransl8 and published by @maclehosepress. Congratulations!
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Our next seminar will be given by Professor Brian James Baer, Kent State University: "Queer(ing) Translation: Rationales, Theoretical Frames, and Methodological Approaches" Novermber 24, 2021 4.00-5.00 pm (UK Time) Entry is free and no booking is required.
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Machine translation and #automation, in general, is one of the most vibrant topics in #translation and #interpreting. As an academic, #MT is part of my #tech classes because students will need to understand how and when to use it, and what its limitations are. 1/
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[Final Call] The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar sisubakercentre.org/2021/10/…
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Out in February, an exciting addition to our Handbook series , congratulations to the editors and all the authors @RoutledgeLing
Now entering final stages of production - @RoutledgeLing Handbook of #Translation & Methodology with chapters by our profs @Philotrad (on conceptual research) & @bowkerl (on CAT). Due out in Feb 2022: routledge.com/The-Routledge-…
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Interesting thread if you want to get into video-game localization #TranslatorsOfIndia #translation #xl8 #localization
1/🎮 So, @Nicolas_Caink asked me a million dollar question: "How one can break into game #localization? I figured I'd share my thoughts in this thread. Click below to read my ramblings and don't forget to Retweet and Like if you enjoyed them. #l10n #gamedev #IndieGameDev
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