We are thrilled to announce that the recordings of the 2024 CETRA Chair Professor Lectures, delivered by Lynne Bowker (Université Laval), are now available on CETRA’s YouTube channel.
Professor Bowker delivered five lectures as part of the 2024 CETRA Research Summer School in Translation Studies, held in Antwerp from 19-30 August:
- Privilege and marginalization in translation technologies research
- Translation technologies and ethics
- Translation technologies and research methods
- Translation technologies and multilingual scholarly communication
- Translation technologies, society, and science communication
Whether you’re a scholar, practitioner, or student of translation, these lectures offer valuable perspectives on how technology is shaping the future of translation and communication – and the roles translation studies scholars can and should play in ensuring that this future is ethical, equitable and accessible.
Check out CETRA’s YouTube channel for Lynne Bowker’s lectures as well as others by past Chair Professors.
Lynne Bowker is Canada Research Chair in Translation, Technologies, and Society at the Université Laval in Quebec. Her principal research areas include translation technologies, language for special purposes, and scholarly and science communication. Prior to her professorship in Ottawa, she was a lecturer at Dublin City University in Ireland. In addition, she has held visiting positions as a guest professor or researcher at several institutions including the University of Verona, Tampere University, and the Adam Mickiewicz University.
In 2020, Professor Bowker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Arts and Humanities) in recognition of her contribution to research in translation and translation technologies. She is a member of groups such as the Canadian Association for Translation Studies, the COST Action Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME) and the Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique (OBVIA), as well as a certified (French-English) translator with the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario. Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her recent publications include Machine Translation and Global Research (Emerald, 2019), and De-Mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-Translators (Routledge, 2023). For further information on her research activities and publications, see ORCID.
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