The 63th PhD Academic Salon of Translation Studies, 29 Sep.

Last updated:2015-09-18

Topic: Translation and Journal Publication
Speaker: Prof. Sun Yifeng
Chair: Wang Xiulu

Time: 16:30-18:00, Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Venue: Room 210, School of Foreign Languages Building, South Campus

Organizer:
Translation Studies Institute, Sun Yat-sen University
School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University

Abstract
The discipline of translation studies is experiencing rapid expansion, and this is accompanied by the proliferation of related journals. The evolving academic landscape is characterized by increasing interaction among editors, authors, and readers to facilitate knowledge sharing on a global scale. Translation studies is inherently interdisciplinary，and many unresolved or less than satisfactorily resolved research areas present major challenges to its further development. This talk will take account of the overriding need to probe the interactive relationship between the production of journals and the development of translation studies by providing an overall contextual framework for evaluating the field. It will also discuss some facets of journal publishing in relation to ways in which translation scholars can create publishable research.

SUN Yifeng is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Translation Studies at Lingnan University. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, and Adjunct Chair Professor at Jinan University, where he serves as Honorary Director of the Institute for Intercultural and Translation Studies, as well as Affiliate Professor at Southwest University and some other institutions. He was educated or conducted research at the Universities of Nanjing, Cardiff, Westminster, Cambridge, Leiden and Oxford. He is former Vice President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, and is an executive council member of the Translators Association of China, a member of the Translation and Culture Committee of the International Federation of Translators, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK.
He is author of several books including Translating Foreign Otherness (in preparation), Cultural Translation (2015), Cultural Exile and Homeward Journey (2005), Perspective, Interpretation and Culture: Literary Translation and Translation Theory (2004; 2nd edition, 2006) and Fragmentation and Dramatic Moments (2002), editor of Translation and Academic Journals: The Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Publishing (2015), co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese on “Cultural Transformation in the 1950s: From Mainland China to Hong Kong” (2013), and Translation, Globalisation and Localisation (2008), as well as co-translator of King of the Wizards (1998) and some other collections of translation in English. In addition, he serves on the academic committee of a major national project entitled Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture to oversee and facilitate the dissemination of Chinese cultural tradition and heritage to the rest of the world.


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