| Mar 2019 | International Forum on Translation, Cognition and Audio Description (IFTCAD) & the 5th CATIC Conference |
| The Centre, co-organized the International Forum on Translation, Cognition and Audio Description (IFTCAD) & the 5th CATIC Conference with the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong and the China Association for Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CATIC) during the period 15-18 March 2019. This event (held in City University of Hong Kong and was convened by Dr Jackie Yan (core member of HCLS)), provided opportunities for interdisciplinary exchanges on studies related to Translation and Interpretation, Cognition and Audio Transcription. The Conference, featuring keynote speeches, panel presentations, roundtable discussion and panel chairs’ reports, was a great success. | |
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For details, please refer to the conference website:
http://lt.cityu.edu.hk/portal_root/subsites/conferences/2019/iftcad/ |
| Apr 2018 | Grand Final of the Seventh Cross-Strait Interpreting Contest |
| The Centre co-organized the Grand Final of the Seventh Cross-Strait Interpreting Contest with the Department of Linguistics and Translation of City University of Hong Kong and Xiamen University on 28 April 2018. This event (held in Hong Kong for the first time) attracted young interpreters, who were winners from Regional Interpreting Contests in various provinces in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, UK, and the U.S. to compete in the international arena. Top professionals, researchers and academics in the field of translation and interpretation were invited to be adjudicators in this Grand Final. Furthermore, this activity won support from the local communities of the visually impaired people. The Chair of this event, Dr. Jackie Yan had dedicated efforts to raising social awareness of the need of the visually-impaired community. Visually-impaired audience had been invited to join the event with the help of The Hong Kong Society of the Blind. | |
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Please refer to website below for details.
http://lt.cityu.edu.hk/NewsCentre/f_usr/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1907&FORUM_ID=8&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=The+Seventh+Cross-Strait+Interpreting+Contest+Aoyea+Cup%3A+Grand+Final&Forum_Title=+ |
| Nov 2017 | 22nd Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis from 3-5 November 2017 |
| The Centre, in collaboration with the South China Agricultural University (SCAU), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), held the 22nd Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis from 3-5 November 2017 at South China Agricultural University (Guangzhou, China). This 22nd Symposium was to honour Professor Robin P. Fawcett, in recognition of his contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in general and, in particular, to the development of the Cardiff Grammar and the Cardiff Model of Language and its Use (with Gordon Tucker and others, including several Chinese scholars). | |
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Please refer to website below for details.
http://www.scau.edu.cn/2017/1031/c1324a63328/page.htm |
