As part of the two-week CETRA Research Summer School in Translation Studies, the 2023 CETRA Chair Professor, Professor Hanna Risku, delivered five CETRA Chair Lectures:
- Socio-cognitive translation studies and the situatedness of translation | Monday, 28 August, 10:30 am (Brussels time) | Click here for the closed-captioned recording
- Distributed translatorship: A comparison of individualized, situated and extended agency | Tuesday, 29 August, 10:30 am (Brussels time) | Click here for the closed-captioned recording
- Field research in translation studies: The challenging journey of doing research at the workplace | Thursday, 31 August, 9:00 am (Brussels time) | Click here for the close-captioned recording.
- Rethinking translation expertise: Lived practice and social construction | Monday, 4 September, 10:15 am (Brussels time) | Click here for the recording. (Note that the closed-captions for this recording are in the process of being post-edited and may contain errors.)
- Practitioner and employer views on translation expertise: Insights from ongoing empirical research | Wednesday, 6 September, 9:00 am (Brussels time) | Click here for the recording. (Note that the closed-captions for this recording are in the process of being post-edited and may contain errors.)
Hanna Risku is professor for translation studies and head of the Research Group Socio-Cognitive Translation Studies (socotrans) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research areas include translation and situated cognition, ethnography, translation workplace and network research, and translation expertise. Prior to her work in Vienna, she was professor for translation studies at the University of Graz, professor for applied cognitive science and technical communication, head of the Department for Knowledge and Communication Management and vice rector at the Danube University Krems, guest professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and lecturer at different universities in Austria, Finland and Sweden.
Professor Risku served as co-editor of Fachsprache – International Journal of Specialized Communication and as president of the European umbrella organisation for technical communication – TCeurope. In 2010, she was awarded the TCeurope Award for Services to Technical Communication in Europe. She has been invited to the Finnish Academy of Sciences (2016). She is member of EST, of tekom, and of the international network Translation, Research, Empiricism, Cognition (TREC). For further info, see ORCID and a list of publications.
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