LSADTS Seminar 2022
Language Service, Audio Description and Translation Studies: Research and Pedagogy

• Language service
• Audio description research and pedagogy
• Media accessibility research and pedagogy
• Audiovisual translation research and pedagogy
• Cross-fertilization between audiovisual translation and interpreting studies
• Innovations in translation and interpreting pedagogy
• Evolving profiles of translators and interpreters
• Literature in translation

Opening session

• Kit Chun Yu delivers opening speech
• Jackie Xiu Yan introduces the presenters

Session 1: Language service

Liu Heping (Beijing Language and Culture University)

• - Translation and language service: Similarities, differences and challenges

Chair:
Li Bin

Chai Mingjiong (Shanghai International Studies University)

• - 语言服務業發展與人才短缺——從《2022中國翻譯行業發展報告》看專業現狀

Chair:
Li Bin

Session 2: Evolving profiles of translators and interpreters

Wang Binhua (University of Leeds)

• - Towards an ‘outward turn’ in interpreting studies: Conceptualising interpreting as a sociopolitical and historical shaping force and a source of inter/trans-disciplinary conviviality

Chair:
Caesar Lun

Zhu Chunshen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

• - Towards a positive profile of translation studies and a proactive profile of the translator

Chair:
Caesar Lun

Session 3: Innovations in translation and interpreting pedagogy: Research and practice

Zhong Weihe (City University of Macau & China Translators Association)

• - On interpreting aptitude testing based on holistic validity—An empirical study on MTI interpreting entrance reexamination

Chair:
Peppina Lee

Zhao Xingmin (Languages Service, UN Office at Geneva)

• - The changing profile of a UN translator and what this could mean for future education and training of translators

Chair:
Peppina Lee

Session 4: Innovations in translation and interpreting pedagogy: Translation pedagogy

Li Defeng (University of Macau)

• - Teaching translation in blackbox theatre

Chair:
Jackie Yan

Brian Baer (Kent State University)

• - Emerging trends in translation pedagogy: Opportunities and challenges

Chair:
Jackie Yan

Session 5: Innovations in translation and interpreting pedagogy: AI and teacher training

Wang Lidi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

• - New challenges for translator training in the age of AI and machine translation

Chair:
Cecilia Chan

Kang Zhifeng (Fudan University)

• - The construction of a Practice-Teaching-Research (PTR) model for the accomplishments of college interpreting teachers in China

Chair:
Cecilia Chan

Lu Zhi (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

• - An eye-tracking study of literary post-editing with neural machine translation

Chair:
Huang Hsu Wen

Session 6: Audio description/audiovisual translation research and pedagogy

Han Jing (Western Sydney University)

• - Achieving communication in audiovisual translation

Chair:
Kenneth Au

Anna Jankowska (University of Antwerp)

• - Describing describers: Audio description process research and its implications for teaching

Chair:
Kenneth Au

Anna Matamala (The Autonomous University of Barcelona)

• - Training in media accessibility

Chair:
Kenneth Au

Session 7: Literature in translation

Wang Dongfeng (Sun Yat-sen University)

• - 詩學功能與詩學翻譯

Chair:
Li Bo

Perng Ching-Hsi (National Taiwan University & Fu Jen Catholic University)

• - 小處著眼談文學翻譯

Chair:
Li Bo

Li Dechao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

• - Translating hybrid texts in Hong Kong: A case study of the English translation of Chan Koon Chung’s fiction Jindu cha canting

Chair:
Richard Sheung

Kong Haili (Swarthmore College)

• - Spread Chinese culture through words and images: Translating Ba Jin and Duanmu Hongliang

Chair:
Richard Sheung

Session 8: Audio description/audiovisual translation research and pedagogy

Xiao Weiqing (Shanghai International Studies University)

• - Developing an AD module in a traditional AVT course: A practice report from Shanghai

Chair:
Li Bin

Jackie Xiu Yan (City University of Hong Kong)

• - Evaluation of audio description learning: A user-centred approach

Chair:
Li Bin

Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University)

• - Towards the audio description competence model in academic training of audio describers

Chair:
Jackie Yan

Closing Session