CETRA FALL Lecture 2020 by Peter Flynn: ‘”I’ll have pint with you, sir” – language practices and translation in an Irish pub in Ghent.’

Wednesday 9 December, 18:30

Peter Flynn recently retired as a lecturer in Translation Studies and English at KU Leuven, Campus Antwerp, where he’d worked since September 2006, and is now a research fellow at UFS, Bloemfontein. He has (co-)organized translation conferences and events on a yearly basis since 2007. His main areas of interest are ethnographies of translation practices, empirical and functionalist approaches to translation studies, linguistic ethnography, (Irish) literature, and sociolinguistics.

In case of code yellow or orange, the venue will be: KU Leuven Campus Carolus (Antwerp), Grote Aula 0.05. In case of code red, this lecture will be given online.

Entrance is free, but you are kindly asked to register before 30 November 2020 by following this link. You can register as long as the maximum capacity of the room has not been reached (in case the lecture will be given on campus).