Event Details

Online talk

This presentation aims to introduce digital humanities as a field of growing relevance for translation students. While digital humanities have often developed under an implicit monolingual and Anglocentric bias, translation has always been a foundational yet underestimated dimension of digital scholarship more broadly. By placing translation back at the centre of computational work with culture, we can better understand how languages, datasets, tools and algorithms shape what becomes visible, analysable, repressed or excluded in the digital study of texts.

Through examples from my own research in multilingual DH and cultural analytics, the talk will explore how translation functions both as a technical practice and as a critical and political form of mediation in digital environments. I will illustrate how corpora, metadata, machine translation systems and large-scale cultural datasets reproduce linguistic asymmetries, while also offering new opportunities for creative and socially engaged translation work. To conclude, I will highlight how translation scholars can play a key role in building a more linguistically diverse and ethically reflexive digital humanities, particularly in the context of current debates around AI and cultural sustainability.