Provisional programme of the 2019 CETRA Research Summer School in Translation Studies

In close collaboration with our teaching staff members, we’re now fine-tuning the programme of our next Research Summer School in Translation Studies (see our call for participants).

This is how the provisional version looks like:

Monday 19 August

• 12.30-2.30 pm: Registration
• 2.30 – 4 pm: Briefing for all participants
• 5 pm: Academic opening session
  • Introductory lecture by CETRA Chair Professor, Jemina Napier: Interpreting Studies as linguistic ethnography: New theories, new methods. [click on the link to read the abstract]
• 6.30 pm: Reception

Tuesday 20 August

• 9.30 am: Seminar by Daniel Gile: Why should researchers from spoken language translation and interpreting be interested in signed language interpreting and signed language interpreting research? Chair: Lieven D’hulst
• 11 am: Coffee break
• 11.30 am: Lecture by CETRA Chair Professor, Jemina Napier: Sign Language Interpreting Studies as a Transformative, Transformed and Transformational Field: Implications for Interpreting Studies. [click on the link to read the abstract]Chair: Heidi Salaets
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-6 pm: Tutorials and library work

Wednesday 21 August

• 9.30 am: Seminar by Franz Pöchhacker: Methodological approaches in translation and interpreting research. Chair: Demi Krystallidou
• 11 am: Coffee break
• 11.30 am-1 pm: Tutorials and library work
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-3.30 pm: Seminar by Sara Ramos Pinto: Back to basics. Rethinking TS concepts through an AVT lense. Chair: Isabelle Delaere
• 4-6 pm: Tutorials and library work

Thursday 22 August

• 9 am-11.30 am: Tutorials and library work
• 11.30 am: Lecture by CETRA Chair Professor, Jemina Napier: Examining the multimodal research trend in dialogue interpreting research. [click on the link to read the abstract] Chair: Pieter Boulogne
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-5 pm: Parallel workshops according to topic or methodology, by Pieter Boulogne, Leo Tak-hung Chan, Isabelle Delaere, Lieven D’hulst, Daniel Gile, Haidee Kruger, Demi Krystallidou, Franz Pöchhacker, Sara Ramos Pinto, Heidi Salaets and Luc van Doorslaer – exact topics to be determined later.
• 7 pm: Dinner in Antwerp restaurant

Friday 23 August

• 9.30-11.30 am: Library work and tutorials
• 11.30 am: Seminar by Leo Tak-hung Chan: Free Translation, Adaptation and Imitation. Chair: Pieter Boulogne
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-3.30 pm: Seminar by Haidee Kruger: Converging what and how to find out why: Methods in empirical translation studies. Chair: Elke Brems
• 3.30-5.30 pm Library work and tutorials

Monday 26 August

• 9.30 am: Seminar by Christina Schäffner: Institutional translation: practices, norms, and agency. Chair: Reine Meylaerts
• 11 am: Coffee break
• 11.30 am: Lecture by CETRA Chair Professor, Jemina Napier: Participatory research methods in interpreting studies. [click on the link to read the abstract] Chair: Dirk Delabastita
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-4 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Pieter Boulogne
  • 4-6 pm: Library work and tutorials

Tuesday 27 August

• 9.30 am: Seminar by Aline Remael: Translation and media accessibility. [click on the link to read the abstract] Chair: Pieter Boulogne
• 11 am: Coffee break
• 11.30 am – 1 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Luc van Doorslaer
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-3.30 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Heidi Salaets
• 4-6 pm: Library work and tutorials

Wednesday 28 August

• 9.30 am: Library work and tutorials
• 11 am: Coffee break
• 11.30 am: Lecture by CETRA Chair Professor, Jemina Napier: Exploring mixed-methods research design in interpreting studies. [click on the link to read the abstract] Chair: Luc van Doorslaer
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-3.30 and 4-5.30 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Isabelle Delaere

Thursday 29 August

• 9.30 am: Seminar by Dilek Dizdar: Translatorial action and functionalism in the 21st century. Chair: Elke Brems
• 11 am: Coffee break
• 11.30 am – 1 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Demi Krystallidou
• 1-2 pm: Lunch
• 2-3.30 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Dirk Delabastita
• 4-6 pm: Library work and tutorials
• 7 pm: Dinner in Antwerp restaurant

Friday 30 August

• 9-10:30: Library work and tutorials
• 10.30-12: Seminar by Dirk Delabastita: Publishing in Translation Studies. Chair: to be determined
• 12-1 pm: Lunch
• 1-4 pm: Student presentations. Chair: Pieter Boulogne
• 4 pm: Closing drink

We look forward to receiving your application!