Past events
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CTIS Research Seminars: "'Regimes of Shibboleth Consciousness: Justice making, Language and ‘Muslims’" (Dr Kamran Khan)
14:00 - 15:30 7 November 2024
Tim McNamara coined the phrase ‘Regimes of Shibboleth Consciousness’ in relation the ‘undecideability’ of the individual in the face of judgement. He drew Jacques Derrida’s work on the shibboleth which refers to a particular identification of an ‘enemy’ through a linguistic judgement and a perceived connection to a social group. Derrida...
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CTIS Research Seminar: "A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Person-Centred Approach in End-of-Life Care Policies in England and Japan" (Dr Chao Fang)
14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2024
Increasing evidence suggests that a person-centred approach (PCA) improves care outcomes and alleviates pressure on public health systems. However, policy gaps prevent its effective translation into practical, ethical, and moral guidance for end-of-life care (EOLC). In this talk, I aim to explore the meaning and implications of person-centredness...
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CTIS Research Seminar - Exploring Communicative Practice and ‘Groupness’ in a Virtual Intercultural Intervention (Dr Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Newcastle University)
14:00 - 15:30 6 February 2025
Dr Milene will deliver an online talk, which is organised in a hybrid format. Please register for online participation here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuCtrjIrH9OekN7fkoGmxRdY2Rn78Yc4. Abstract: Intercultural communication often takes place in fleeting contexts in which speakers have limited common ground (Clark, 1996). This lack of...
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CTIS Research Seminar -Teaching Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Education: Reflections on Developing an Integrated Approach (Dr Rebecca Tipton, University of Manchester)
14:00 - 15:30 27 February 2025
Although the topic of ethics has received considerable attention from academics working in Translation and Interpreting Studies, questions about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of teaching ethics have received only limited critical attention in the field. This presentation, based on my recent publication, The Routledge Guide to Teaching Ethics...
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CTIS Research Seminar - How can We Interact Better with GenAI in the Posthuman Era? A Call for the Development of Critical Interactional Competence in Intercultural Professional Communication
14:00 - 15:30 13 March 2025
Against the proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) products such as ChatGPT and Gemini, and their increasing use in professional communication training, researchers, including applied linguists, have cautioned that these products (re)produce cultural stereotypes due to the data biases in the Large Language Models (LLM) on which...
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CTIS Research Seminar -Who Counts as an Author? What Is a Text? Reshaping Literary Displacement through Collaboration
14:00 - 15:30 3 April 2025
This presentation explores how collaborative ways of making literature redefine literary texts as social processes, open up individual and canonical ideas of authorship and create more immediate and relational modes of literary valuation and circulation. Focusing on contexts of migration and displacement and using the Shatila Stories project (2018)...
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CTIS Research Seminar - Is Everything Well? Assessing Translator Wellbeing via Self-reported Narratives of Belonging, Esteem and Self-actualisation
14:00 - 15:30 23 October 2025
Most freelance translators get satisfaction from their work. In a survey conducted as part of the BA-funded “Chasing Status” project (2023-24), for instance, 69% of UK freelance translators said they found their job fulfilling (Penet et al. forthcoming). Undoubtedly, the fact that freelance translators continue to find their work fulfilling...
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