Together with the Confucius Institute, DeCL will be hosting the 'Lancaster Translation and Intercultural Communication' Conference on Friday July 1st. Our academic partners are Xidian University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies School of English Education (SEE).

The online conference provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, experts and students to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the field of interpreting and translation. The conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research findings in all aspects of languages and translation research.

The Lancaster Translation and Intercultural Communication Conference will be from 7.00am BST (2.00pm CST) to 10am BST (5pm CST) on Friday 1 July.

Opening remarks: Dr Derek Hird, Head of Department of Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University

Welcome: Dr Erika Fulop, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Lancaster University

Speaker 1: Prof. Jinghui Wang, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Tsinghua University

Speaker 2: Prof. Heping Wu, Dean of College of International Cultural Exchange，Northwest Normal University

Speaker 3: Dr. Amily Guenier, Deputy Director of Confucius Institute, Lancaster University

Speaker 4: Prof. Xiaofei Wei, Doctoral Supervisor, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Speaker 5: Prof. Pan Zhen, School of Foreign Studies, Jiangsu Normal University

2nd panel- Report Presentation Of Early Career Researcher

Closing remark: Romain Bardot, Director of MA translation

The conference is online and free to attend, but you will need to register in advance via Eventbrite: Lancaster Translation and Intercultural Communication Conference Tickets, Fri 1 Jul 2022 at 07:00 | Eventbrite .

A special issue for the The International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) will also be created from the original and high-quality studies submitted to the 'Translation and Intercultural Communication Conference'. The objective of this special issue is to share innovative ideas, e-platform teaching skills, and interactive practices in teaching and learning translation and intercultural communication.