A Lancaster University School of Global Affairs researcher is all set to give the keynote paper at an international conference exploring the way in which imagination weaves itself into interpretation and textual fabric of translation.

Dr Delphine Grass will deliver a paper entitled 'A Particular Kind of Relation: Translation, Praxis and the Social Imagination’ at the third Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies Conference to be held in June at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal.

This year's Spring school, with the title 'Translation and the Imagination', will look at age-old forms and new challenges posed by intermedial and transmedial texts, and computer-assisted translation. It will also look into the part imagination plays in translation and how this is affected by the emergence of AI translation.

Alongside its new MA Global Leadership programme, the School of Global Affairs also offers an established MA Translation Studies degree which allows students to develop their linguistic and technical skills to move into a wide range of careers in translation.