Lectures and Research Seminars

Online Lecture Series 2021-22

We are holding two themed series of online lectures this year. Please follow the links for more information and to register. Our online lectures are open to the public and everyone is most welcome to attend.

Translation and Health

• Monday 1 November 2021, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Abena Asomaning Antwi (University of Professional Studies, Accra), ‘Lost in healthcare: Access, translation and utilization for People Living with Disabilities (PWDs) in Ghana’
• Monday 10 January 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Vicent Montalt (Universitat Jaume I), ‘Researching informed consent (IC) – a translational perspective’
• Monday 7 February 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (University of Edinburgh), ‘Translation and interpreting in maternal healthcare contexts: Ethical and feminist issues’
• Monday 14 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 GMT, Prof Pierrette Bouillon (Université de Genève), ‘Babeldr, un outil de traduction fiable du dialogue médical’
• Monday 9 May 2022, 16:00-17:00 BST, Prof Eivind Engebretsen (University of Oslo) and Prof Mona Baker (University of Oslo/ University of Manchester), ‘The Oslo Medical Corpus: An interdisciplinary agenda for rethinking key concepts in (global) health’

Translation, Memory, Migration (UCL / SOAS Global Translation Lectures)

• Monday 22 November 2021, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter (UCL), ‘Thou Shalt Not Translate: The 1901 Athens Gospel Riots’
• Monday 6 December 2021, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Mario Panico (University of Bologna), ‘Recollecting memories ‘of others’: Postmemory and the textual translation of trauma’
• Monday 31 January 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Carola Heinrich (Comenius University, Bratislava), ‘A tear and a smile. Translating Post-Soviet Memory in Cuba and Romania’
• Monday 28 Feburary 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Siobhan Brownlie (Le Mans Université), Concepts of Translation in Memory Studies
• Monday 21 March 2022, 18:00-19:00 GMT, Dr Anneleen Spiessens (Ghent University), ‘News translation, memory and ideology: the case of Russia during the Crimean crisis’
• Monday 23 May 2022, 10:00-11:00 BST, Prof Susannah Radstone (University of Melbourne), ‘Unpacking: Old things in new places’
• Monday 13 June 2022, 18:00-19:00 BST, Dr Alessandra Rizzo (Università degli Studi di Palermo), ‘Creative and political (sub)titling as activism: migratory perspectives in the visual arts’

For details of further lectures in this series being hosted by SOAS, please see https://www.soas.ac.uk/cts/events/

Recordings of many of the UCL 2020-21 lectures are available on UCL Mediacentral (search for ‘Translation’)