MA Translation at Portsmouth

😍 Our University has received the highest rating of Gold in a national assessment of teaching excellence! 😍 The #TeachingExcellenceFramework is a national assessment of teaching, giving students an independent indication of quality: bit.ly/3tcJZOJ via @Portsmouthuni

"The learning of languages is a far-sighted and wise investment", Ambassador Miguel Berger writes in the latest edition of the @FCDOGovUK Inside Out magazine.

The winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023 is @itsdeenasaur, ‘Your Wish Is My Command’, a graphic novel self-translated from Arabic and published by @GrantaBooks. Congratulations!

I am no expert in Parisian French so may also miss something but Simon Kuper @KuperSimon did a decent job at exemplifying the evolving nature of language. “…it’s the ever-renewing cosmopolitan language of a cosmopolitan city that never wants to freeze into a museum”.

"Interpreters are wizards – at times they seem to have read my mind. AI could never compete." theguardian.com/commentisfree/… via @guardian

The 11th EST conference on translation and interpreting will be held in Leeds in June 2025. The call for panels is now open for submissions (deadline 2 Feb 2024) ahc.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/down… Initial information on the conference itself is available here - ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/even…

There are many self-help books on how to get a child to sleep, offering contradictory advice. @DrLexieScherer, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies in our School, argues that parents should be reassured that one size doesn't fit all. theconversation.com/books-on-toddl… via @ConversationUK

'How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity': an article by @jodieEdu, Senior Lecturer in Education in our School srheblog.com/2023/10/16/how… via @SRHE73

"Regardless of linguistic background or experience, if you get a group of people translating in a room together, it generates so much positive energy, and generates such interesting conversations about language." - Charlotte Ryland buff.ly/48g64M7

Interested in taking an MA in Translation Studies at our TEF Gold-rated university? You can attend a virtual Postgraduate Open Event at 4-6pm on Thursday 19 October. To sign up, click here: port.ac.uk/postgraduate-o…

CfP: "History-Translation-Politics". 2nd History and Translation Network Conference, 11-14 September 2024 in Graz, Austria. Find out more: historyandtranslation.net/htn-2024-graz-… #translationstudies #translationswissenschaft #itat #graz

My new paper is out - an empirical study on translation reception. benjamins.com/catalog/btl.16…

New publication out✨ 📖Audio Description for the Arts: A Linguistic Perspective By Elisa Perego (2023) routledge.com/Audio-Descript…

This Friday! Meeting ID: 864 3921 2021 Passcode: 619248
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Almost there! For the past two years I have been working on several books. And as I'm writing these lines, I am adding the finishing touches to the first to be published.

Translators can also now apply to join the assessor pool for @englishpen's grants for literature in translation: #PENTranslates and #PENPresents. Find out more and apply now: englishpen.org/translation/tr…

Join us this Saturday for our second Open Day of this academic year. Hear from our lecturers, students and enjoy a tour of our campus!🎓💜 Register with this link: go.port.ac.uk/cgfqj2 #PortsmouthUni #UoP #OpenDay #UoPOpenDay

Always a must-read: the autumn 2023 recommendations from New Books in German! Delighted to see @MaikeWetzel's moving Schwebende Brücken as one of the picks @schoeffling Sample translation by me available on here: new-books-in-german.com/recommendation…

Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by Early Career Scholar now accepting applications for 2023/24 round deadline 31 Oct sisubakercentre.org/2023/07/30/cal… @BakerSisu @IATISorg @rys_soc @vrafael82 @bowkerl @Neil_Sadler @PiotrBlum @ctismanchester @modnalro68

Great events at Park Building yesterday! 1st event: Post-Experience Reflective Event: Study Abroad & Placement students reflect on their time away from Uni. 2nd event: Student Support Fair: Meet with Student Engagement, Student Union, Careers, My Port, and Placement teams!✨

‘Translation is an act of radical change.’ The Indian-American author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri on her special affinity with Rome, why she doesn’t give her characters names, and her passion for Ovid. theguardian.com/books/2023/sep… via @GuardianBooks @GenevaAbdul