2017 Conferences on Researching Translation & Interpreting

Interdisciplinary models for researching translation and interpreting in new settings, such as digital platforms, social media, asylum hearings, refugee camps;

The adaptation of theoretical insights and models from sociology, cultural theory, media studies, linguistics and other disciplines to address research questions in translation studies;

Models of collaboration across the human and natural sciences and the potential contribution of translation studies in this context;

The use of translation as a critical category to interrogate the tenets and long held assumptions of another discipline;

The application of specific methods of research, such as ethnography or genetic criticism, in the study of translation and interpreting;

Interdisciplinary models for theorizing and researching communities of translators and interpreters;

Interdisciplinary models for theorizing and researching cognitive aspects of translation and interpreting;

The ethics of interdisciplinary research.