FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Towards a paradigm shift in interpreter education of the AI era: Going beyond training of interpreting skills’
2023-06-07 @ 2:30 pm ~ 5:00 pm
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department of English Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof. Wang Binhua
Towards a paradigm shift in interpreter education of the AI era: Going beyond training of interpreting skills
Wednesday 7 June 2023, 14:30
Venue: E21-1053
All are Welcome
Abstract:
Recent development of AI-powered technologies relevant to interpreting has triggered the debate over whether human interpreters will be replaced by the machine. This talk discusses two core questions facing the interpreting profession and interpreter education in the AI era: 1) Which components of human interpreting can(not) be done by the machine? 2) What changes need to be made for interpreter education to adapt to the new development in technology and in the profession?
Biography:
Binhua Wang is Chair/Professor of interpreting and translation studies at University of Leeds in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIoL). His research interests include interpreting and translation studies and intercultural communication studies, in which he has published many articles in refereed CSSCI/SSCI/A&HCI journals and in edited volumes published by Routledge, John Benjamins, Springer, Brill and Palgrave. His recent publications have appeared in Babel, Perspectives, Translation Review, Translation Spaces, Language and Intercultural Communication, Chinese Translators Journal and in Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting and Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis. He has authored the monographs Theorising Interpreting Studies (2019) and A Descriptive Study of Norms in Interpreting (2013), and edited with Jeremy Munday Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Routledge). He serves as co-editor of Interpreting and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal, chief editor of Int’l Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting and on the editorial boards of Babel, ITT, Forum, Foreign Language Teaching & Research (外語教學與研究), Chinese Translators Journal (中國翻譯) and Translation Quarterly (翻譯季刊).