‘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 Guardian Books Geneva Abdul

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 Schöffling & Co. 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… SISU Baker Centre IATIS Rafael Schögler Vicente Rafael Lynne Bowker Neil Sadler Piotr Blumczyński CTIS Manchester Marc Orlando

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

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

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!✨

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.

"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

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
nus-sg.zoom.us/j/86439212021?…

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…

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…

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

I am no expert in Parisian French so may also miss something but Simon Kuper Simon Kuper 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”.

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…

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

There are many self-help books on how to get a child to sleep, offering contradictory advice. Lexie Scherer, 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 The Conversation

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 Granta Books. Congratulations!

"The learning of languages is a far-sighted and wise investment", Ambassador Miguel Berger writes in the latest edition of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Inside Out magazine.