Program schedule

Shaping the Future of Translation and Interpreting Studies in a Context of Technological, Cultural and Social Changes

14 – 16 June 2024 @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

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14 June, 2024 (Fri)

Time	Event
14:30-20:00	Registration Venue:Outside N001

15 June, 2024 (Sat)

Time	Event
08:30	Registration Venue:Outside N001
09:00-09:20	Opening Remarks Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 MC: Dr. Sai-cheong SIU; Dr. Lingjie JI Opening remarks by Dr. Cindy NGAI (Associate Head of Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Welcoming remarks by Dr. Janice Jun PAN (President of Hong Kong Translation Society)
09:20-09:45	Hong Kong Translation Society Honorary Fellowship Conferment Ceremony 2023 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Prof. Leo Tak-hung CHAN (Citation by Dr. Elsie Kit-ying CHAN) Prof. Douglas ROBINSON (Citation by Dr. Janice Jun PAN) Prof. Yuan-fang TUNG (Citation by Dr. SIU Sai-cheong) Prof. Kefei WANG (Citation by Dr. Dechao LI) Vote of thanks by Prof. Douglas ROBINSON
09:45-10:25	Translation Master Lecture 1 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Moderator: Dr. Sai-cheong SIU Translation and Reception Studies Speaker: Prof. Leo Tak-hung CHAN (Guangxi University)
10:25-10:45	Tea Break
10:45-11:25	Translation Master Lecture 2 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Moderator: Dr. Lingjie JI My Three Decades with Machine Translation Speaker: Prof. Douglas ROBINSON (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
11:25-12:05	Translation Master Lecture 3 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Moderator: Dr. Sai-cheong SIU Regarding the Impact of Modern Technology on Translation Speaker: Prof. Yuan-fang TUNG (Tunghai University)
12:05-12:45	Translation Master Lecture 4 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Moderator: Dr. Lingjie JI The Double Mediation Effect of Translation 談翻譯的雙重中介作用 Speaker: Prof. Kefei WANG (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
12:50-13:50	Lunch break Venue:Outside N001
14:00-15:40	Panel 1 - Translation and Literature I 翻譯與文學 I Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Panel chair: Dr. Teresa WANG Discussant: Dr. Huawen LIU; Dr. Wenjing LI The Pivotal Role of Translators’ Research in Literary Translation: A Case Study of Jeffrey Kinkley Minhui XU Minor Literature as a Vital Component of World Literature: Lu Xun’s Translation of Bulgarian Literature via German Sources Xiaolu MA Images of Tibetan Identity Emerging from the Selection of Contemporary Tibetan Literature for English Translation by the Anglophone World Meihua SONG Female Ornamentation and Power in Jin Ping Mei: Translating Women’s Hair Ornament Diji in Classical Chinese Literature Meilong LIU; Jackie Xiu YAN Effects of Translation Practice are Modulated by Translation Direction: A Translation Unit Perspective Jinfang SHI; Dechao LI; Jing LV Panel 2 - Translation and Technology 翻譯與科技 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N102 Panel chair: Dr. Lídia ZHOU Discussant: Dr. Tingting Maggie HUI; Dr. Yu WENG What Can We Offer in the Digital Age? Analyzing Translation Trainees’ Needs for an IntroductoryTranslation Technology Course Jia ZHANG; Hong QIAN; Rong HUANG ChatGPT Open AI and Human Interaction: A Contrastive Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of Syntactic Complexity features in human and Machine Translations Muhammad AFZAAL; Shanshan XIAO Implications of Generative AI on the Translation Industry: Challenges and New Horizons George Chi Yu CHAN Research on Development of Translation Curriculum Theory in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Technology Yun YANG; Hongying ZHENG; Xiaorong MA; Bowen ZHOU Exploring the Potential of GPT Technologies as Transcreation Assistants for Video Game Localization: Possible Use Cases for Irrealia Recreation, Translation and Adaptation Luis Damián MORENO GARCÍA
15:40-16:00	Q & A
16:00-16:20	Tea break
16:20-17:00	Invited Speech 1 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Kanglong LIU Translation “Universals” in the Age of AI? An Exploration of research Emergent Research agendas for Corpus-Based Translation Studies Speaker: Prof. Haidee KOTZE (Utrecht University)
17:00-17:40	Invited Speech 2 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Elsie CHAN The Seemless Integration of Translation, Cultural and Technology Literacies in Higher Education Speaker: Prof. Sara LAVIOSA (University of Bari 'Aldo Moro')
18:00	Conference Dinner Venue:Ju Yin House Seafood Restaurant (聚賢樓), 4/F, Communal Building, PolyU

16 June, 2024 (Sun)

Time	Event
09:00-09:40	Featured Speech 1 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Bo LI Challenges Posed by Technology in Translation Quality Assessment for Training Translators: A Comparison of Translations by Chat GPT and DeepL Speaker: Dr. Dechao LI (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
09:40-10:20	Featured Speech 2 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Bo LI Unleashing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Translation: From General Applications to Purpose-built Innovations Speaker: Dr. Sai-cheong SIU (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
10:20-10:40	Tea Break
10:40-12:20	Panel 3 - Translation and Culture I 翻譯與文化 I Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Panel chair: Dr. Guixia XIE Discussant: Dr. Shuangzi PANG; Dr. Chonglong GU Power Dynamics in Collaborative Translation: Translation of “COVID-19” by Wikipedia Translator-Editors Bei HU Translation in Multilingual Cities: Urban Features of Macao’s Coloane in the Lens of Translational Spaces Ge SONG Reframing the Pandemic for Policy Legitimation: Metaphors in News Translation Before and After China’s 2022 Drastic Covid Policy Shift Yufeng LIU Study on the Change of Translator’s Cognitive Style from the Perspective of Cognitive Stylistics: Case Study of Nicky Harman’s Chinese-English Translations of Explicit Metaphors in White Horse and The Chili Bean Paste Clan Ruoyu DAI; Yueyue WANG Panel 4 - Interpreting Studies 口譯研究 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N102 Panel chair: Dr. Minhui XUE Discussant: Dr. Rongjie YUAN; Dr. Han XU A Study on the Cognitive Coordination Mechanism of Multimodal Business Interpreting Zhifeng WANG Interpreter buoyancy: An Exploratory Study Lisha GUO A Peek into the Kaleidoscope of Interpreting Learners Honghua WANG; Shelby Kar Yan CHAN Investigating the Effects of Prolonged Interpreting Turns and Interpreting Expertise on Cognitive Overload in Simultaneous Interpreting with Text Xiaoyu ZHAO More Spoken or More Translated? Exploring the Known Unknowns of Simultaneous Interpreting from a Multidimensional Perspective Cui XU
12:20-12:40	Q & A
12:45-13:50	Lunch break Venue:Outside N001
14:00-15:40	Panel 5 - Audiovisual Translation & Translation Technology 視聽翻譯及翻譯科技 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Panel chair: Dr. Teresa WANG Discussant: Dr. Muhammad AFZAAL; Dr. Zhiwei WU Danmu-assisted Learning through Back Translation: Reception of the English-Dubbed Journey to the West (Season II) Xuemei CHEN Let's Make the "Raw Meat Well-Cooked": A Study of Bilibili's Unsubtitled English Videos with Chinese Danmu from the Perspective of Cultural Transposition and Multimodal Translation Lei SHA Unraveling National Identity through Audiovisual Translation: A Multimodal Corpus Analysis in the “No Poverty Land” Documentary Series Sihui HE Triangulating Needs and Outcome Analyses for Teaching Translation Technology at Undergraduate Level: a User-Centred Action Research Tenglong WAN Panel 6 - Translation and Literature (II) 翻譯與文學 II Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N102 Panel chair: Dr. Xiaolu MA Discussant: Dr. Bei HU; Dr. Dechao L Reframing Other into Self: A Case Study of Everyman’s Literature Yunrou LIU Foreign Translators, Diplomatic Imagination and the East Asia Path of Chinese Revolutionary Literature Zhen XU “To Go ‘Into’ My Dialect”: Jane Lai’s Cantonese Translation of King Lear and its Performance in Hong Kong Guixia XIE Study on English Version of The Art of War Translated by Samuel B.Griffith from the Perspective of Philological Hermeneutics Anwen YANG; Gaozhongyu LIU A Study on the Canadian Sinologists the Walls’s Reconstruction of Classical Chinese Myths: With the Translation and Compilation of Classical Chinese Myths as a Case Study Lin WANG
15:40-16:00	Q & A
16:00-16:20	Tea break
16:20-17:00	Invited Speech 3 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Bo LI Translation technologies: Striking a balance Speaker: Prof. Lynn BOWKER (University of Ottawa)
17:00-17:40	Invited Speech 4 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Honghua WANG The Future of Translation and Translation Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Speaker: Prof. Jeremy MUNDAY (The University of Leeds)
17:50	End

19 June, 2023 (Mon)

Time	Event
09:00-09:40	Featured Speech 3 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Honghua WANG Parallel Corpus in Translation Training: Insights from Implementing a Large-Scale Parallel Corpus Speaker: Dr. Kanglong LIU (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
09:40-10:20	Featured Speech 4 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Honghua WANG Interpreting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Insights from “big” interpreting data Speaker: Dr. Janice Jun PAN (Hong Kong Baptist University)
10:20-11:00	Featured Speech 5 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Honghua WANG Using AI for English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpreting of Political Speeches Speaker: Dr. Andrew K.F. CHEUNG (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
11:00-11:20	Tea Break
11:20-13:00	Panel 7 - Translation Pedagogy and Quality Assessment 翻譯教學法及翻譯質量評估 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N002 Panel chair: Dr. Meihua SONG Discussant: Dr. Kanglong LIU; Dr. Sai-cheong SIU Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Trainee Interpreters' Skills through Collaboration with Professional Practitioners in Specialised Settings Tingting Maggie HUI Material Development for Beginner Student Interpreters: How Does Text Structure Contribute to the Difficulty of Consecutive Interpreting? Rongjie YUAN An Explorative Study on Errors in Students’ Writing and Translation Xia CHEN; Jackie Xiu YAN Translation Quality Assessment Model of National Railway Technical Standards Ruoyu DAI; Xinjie ZHANG Predicting Legal Translation Quality Using Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics: A multi-disciplinary perspective Xiaolei LU; Peixin ZHANG Panel 8 - Corpus-Based Translation Studies 語料庫翻譯研究 Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N102 Panel chair: Dr. Jinfang SHI Discussant: Dr. Lei SHA; Dr. Andrew K.F. CHEUNG Investigating the Changes in the Use of Private Verbs in Different Types of Translated Chinese Texts: A Diachronic and Synchronic Study Shuangzi PANG Professional or Not Professional: A Corpus-Based Study of Modal Verbs in Online Medical Conference simultaneous interpreting Danni LI A Corpus-Assisted Investigation of Conjunctive-Based Explicitation in Student Trainees’ Consecutive Interpreting 15 Performance between English and Chinese in Interpreting Competition Qingyu ZHANG; Tenglong WAN A Corpus-Based Approach to the Characterisation in the Translation of Cantonese Opera: A Case Study of The Flower Princess Shuting WANG; Jackie Xiu YAN Learning How to Cope with Numbers in SI: A Learners’ CorpusBased Study Julaiti KAIFUSAI; Yujie HUANG Panel 9 - Translation and Culture (II) 翻譯與文化 II Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N003 Panel chair: Dr. Zhen XU Discussant: Dr. Bei HU; Dr. Bo LI The Cultural Translation Research in China and the English World (1991-2021): A Bibliometric Review Gaopan GUO Translating the Body to Defuse the “Crises of Language" Zhenni LI; Huawen LIU The Chinese Tradition and Chinese Value in Wing-tsit Chan’s Shuang HE; Qin HUANG
13:00-13:20	Q & A
13:20	Closing Remarks Zoom link: [Click here] Venue:N001 Moderator: Dr. Honghua WANG Closing remarks by Dr. Dechao LI (Committee Chair, THTT2023)

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