In recent decades, the theory and practice of translation has become an increasingly prominent area of academic discussion and debate. Offering important opportunities for interdisciplinary research, this flourishing field inevitably promotes interactions across and within a wide range of different discourses. However, the University of Cambridge currently has no institutional infrastructure devoted to such work, and those interested in translation tend to be confined to informal fragmentary clusters that rarely converge. The Cambridge Conversations in Translation (CCiT) research group...
Olga Castro (Aston)
Moderator: Monica Boria
Gender-based metaphors and analogies have often been deployed to describe the act of translation: the notion of a translated text as a beautiful but unfaithful woman (Gilles Ménage, 1654) and the translator as a violator or usurper of the author’s...
Published 05/23/18
Caroline Summers (Leeds)
Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle)
Jen Calleja (Translator)
Moderator: Monica Boria
Gender-based metaphors and analogies have often been deployed to describe the act of translation: the notion of a translated text as a beautiful but unfaithful woman (Gilles Ménage,...
Published 05/23/18
Jeremy Munday (Leeds)
Delia Chiaro (Bologna)
Moderator: Marcus Tomalin (Cambridge)
Diversity, in its diverse forms, has come to characterise those modern nation-states that advocate the socio-political advantages of cultural and ethnic pluralism – and sociolinguistic diversity in particular...
Published 02/23/18