The Co-Directors of the Nida School of Translation Studies - Stefano Arduini and Philip H. Towner - announce the 2013 Translation Studies Research Symposium.

    Symposium Theme: Cultural Translation
    Presenters: Robert JC Young and Bella Brodzki
    Respondents: Christi Merrill and Suzanne Jill Levine
    Date and Time: Friday September 20, 2013, 10:00am – 4:00pm
    Place: The College Board, 45 Columbus Avenue at 61st Street, New York, NY

    Registration Fee: $75.00 USD

Presenters:

    Robert JC Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University.
    Bella Brodzki is Alice Stone Ilchman Chair of Comparative and International Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
    Christi A Merrill is an associate professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory at the University of Michigan.
    Suzanne Jill Levine is currently Director of Translation Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The third five-day Summer School of the Useyour project will take place 22-26 July 2013. As before, it is for native Anglophones from anywhere in the world. From 2013 we offer an expanded choice of classes which can be taken singly or combined in a choice of two: translation into English from Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish or Swedish, and Editing from non-Anglophone texts, which is now available as a full course as well as an additional element for all students. All these courses are taught by professionals in the field – their details can be found on this website. All classes consist of a two-hour morning and a two-hour afternoon session.

Another innovation in 2013 is the expansion of the French and German workshops into two groups covering different kinds of texts: one will focus on literary translation and the other on academic translation; if you are a single-French or single-German student, you may opt to take one of these as your ‘Language 1’ and the other as your ‘Language 2’. As last year, there will also be guest lectures, competitions, bursaries (closing date 26 April), social and networking events and the option of student-hall accommodation.

The Summer School will be held in Birkbeck's main building in Torrington Square.

This forum focuses on the fundamentals in legal translation, both theoretically and practically: 
本論壇集中研討法律翻譯理論與實踐中的基本問題： 

Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Legal Translation法律翻譯的跨學科合作 
Theories on Legal translation法律翻譯理論研究 
Instruction of Legal Translation法律翻譯教學 
Corpus Construction for Legal Translation法律翻譯語料庫建設 
Translating Chinese Laws中國法律文本外譯 
Disciplinary Construction of Legal Translation法律翻譯學科建設

在現代時間感的淘洗沖刷之下，歷史的粉塵敲鑿飛落，沉積出一片臺灣文學、文化得以定根茁壯的肥沃斯土。隨著時間的流動與空間的變化，臺灣土地深厚的記憶岩層，亦在連續、重複的斷裂與擠壓之下，留下了細緻瑰麗的質地與紋路，成為臺灣學研究共同的追逐與探索。因此，本次國際學術研討會以「時空流轉：文學景觀、文化翻譯與語言接觸」為題，希望藉由梳理臺灣對周遭世界的全面感知，觀察臺灣文學、文化和語言時而產生戲劇性的逆轉與變化，並邀請人文領域研究者進行學術交流，探討臺灣時空流轉下的文學景觀、文化翻譯與語言接觸等議題。希冀透過跨領域的對話，在往而不復的時空當中，一同探索、並詮釋臺灣過去、今日甚或未來，諸多變與不變的樣貌及與世界交流的軌跡。 

The UK TRANSLATION RESEARCH SUMMER SCHOOL (TRSS) offers intensive research training in translation and intercultural studies for prospective as well as existing researchers in the field. It is a joint initiative of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London (UCL), and the Translation Studies Graduate Programme at the University of Edinburgh. This year’s session will be held at University College London (UCL) from Monday 17 to Friday 28 June 2013.

For students who are sponsored by an institution the 2013 Summer School fee is £975, while for self-funded students the fee is £680. Please note that there are two application deadlines: 25 January 2013 and 15 April 2013. TRSS (UK) is also offering financial assistance to enable students to attend. The deadline for receipt of funding applications is 20 February 2013.

For more information on the programme, eligibility, application procedure and funding, please visit www.researchschool.org or email trss2013@gmail.com.

Nida School 2012 Research Symposium Videos
Available online: http://nsts.fusp.it/about-nsts/videos/research-symposium-2012

The 2012  main presenters were Professors Lawrence Venuti (Temple) and Anne E. B. Coldiron (Florida State). Michael Forster (Chicago) and Mary Helen McMurran (Western Ontario) were respondents. The 2012 theme was, “The Intersection between Translation, History, and Methodology.”

The 2013 Research Symposium is scheduled for Friday, September 20 in NYC. Professor Robert J.C. Young has accepted an invitation to be one of the presenters. More information to follow.

For more information, please contact James Maxey at james.maxey@fusp.it

James Maxey, Dean of Faculty, Nida School of Translation Studies, San Pellegrino University Foundation, Misano Adriatico, Italy
nsts.fusp.it

As Holmes states in his seminal paper “The Name and Nature of Translation Studies”, our discipline establishes institutions and discourses around which groups of researchers gather, exchange ideas and develop new theories and models. The growing number of training and research institutions for translation studies and of journals and book series focusing on translation research, the expanding territory of expert forums and blogs on the worldwide web as well as the numerous conference announcements from all over the world are clear indications of an ever increasing interest in the discipline. Whereas initially research, teaching and theory were mainly based in European contexts, promoted under European influence and shaped according to European theoretical perspectives and translation politics, nowadays approaches to translation from different geographies all over the world have been gaining more and more ground. Besides its own ‘internal’ impetus, translation studies has also been receiving growing attention from scholars in other disciplines. The Germersheim EST conference is designedto provide a framework for discussing centre-periphery relations within the discipline from a multifaceted angle: centre-periphery relations concerning the objects of research, the discourses of Translation Studies, and the links between Translation Studies and other disciplines.

This conference plans to study the role played by translation in the modernization of East Asian countries in the 19th and early 20th century, a project at the Research Centre for Translation (RCT), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supported by the University's Focused Investment Scheme and the RCT Research Programme Fund. 

In the 19th and early 20th century, East Asia underwent a process of modernization to cope with the serious challenges brought by the Western powers. While different countries and places might have taken different courses, the process of modernization was characterized by elements ranging from military, political, economic, technological and medical reforms to changes in the legal, administrative, diplomatic as well as education, literary and media systems. There was a long-term socio-political and cultural impact that shaped the “modern” East Asia of the 20th–21st century. 

While modernization was in no way simply equivalent to westernization, many in the 19th and early 20th century did see the West as the model for modernization. Modernization in East Asia was thus more often than not taken as a process of learning from or even imitating the West. In this process, translation played a crucial role, when efforts were made to import Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices. Although numerous studies have been made of the modernization of East Asia, the lack of study of the role of translation in this process has been a major weakness in our understanding of the topic. 

Important dates:

Abstracts submission deadline:	31 Oct 2012
Notification of Acceptance:	1 Dec 2012
Registration deadline:	31 Mar 2013
Conference date:	29–31 May 2013

Languages of Presentation: 
Chinese (Putonghua) and English.

Official Website:
For application forms and information on transport, accommodation, etc., please go to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/ts/modern.

本研討會由香港中文大學中國文化研究所翻譯研究中心主辦，為香港中文大學“重點資助卓越領域計劃”及翻譯研究中心“研究項目經費”資助，旨在探討19至20世紀初翻譯與東亞各國現代化的關係。

為應對西方勢力入侵所帶來的嚴峻挑戰，東亞各國在19至20世紀初開展一系列現代化改革。各國改革方式及內容上雖略有差異，但涵蓋範圍包括軍事、政治、經濟、科技、醫療、法律、行政、外交、教育、文學以至傳媒等方面，對這些國家及地區帶來深遠影響，直接塑造了20至21世紀的“現代”東亞。

現代化不等同於西化，但無可否認，19世紀的西方在當時確被視為“現代”的象徵，東亞各國在不同程度上透過學習甚至仿效西方來進行現代化改革。在引入與傳遞西方思想、理論、概念與實踐經驗的過程中，翻譯扮演了至關重要的角色。然而，儘管有關東亞各國現代化的研究已頗具成果，當中卻鮮有探討翻譯的作用及功能，局限了對該研究領域的理解。

重要日期： 

摘要提交截止日期：	2012年10月31日
研討會論文接受通告：	2012年12月1日
登記截止日期：	2013年3月31日
研討會日期：	2013年5月29–31日

演講語言：
普通話及英語。 

費用：
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官方網站：會議詳情、個人與小組報名表、交通、住宿及其他訊息可於http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/ts/modern查詢。