The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) is going to organize the 2nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2021/2022) on 14 Mar 2022. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor XU Jun deliver a lecture on the topic “The Responsibility and Mission of Translation Scholars in the New Era (新時期翻譯學人的責任與使命).” Professor Xu Jun is currently a senior professor of humanities, supervises doctoral students, and is director of the Chinese Translation Academy at Zhejiang University. He was convener of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Review Committee of the Sixth and Seventh Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, deputy director of the First to Third National Steering Committee for Master’s Degree Training in Translation, executive vice president of the Translators Association of China, and judge of the Five Continents Literature Prize of the International Organization of Francophonie. He is also a member of the editorial board of nearly 20 academic journals at home and abroad, including Meta, Babel, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Chinese Translators Journal and Foreign Languages. He has written and translated widely. His Studies in Fu Lei’s Translation was awarded the First Prize of the Ministry of Education’s Eighth Prize for Outstanding Academic Research in Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), and his Introduction to Translation was awarded the First Prize of the First National Textbook Construction Award for Excellence in Textbooks (Higher Education Category).

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Professor XU Jun

Date: 14 Mar 2022 (Monday)

Time: 15:30 – 17:00

Venue:

• Online： Zoom (Zoom link: https://umac.zoom.us/j/94559287936)
• On-site：Watching the talk on Zoom at E21A- 3118 (Mandarin only)

Language: Mandarin (Simultaneous interpretation into English will be provided on Zoom.)

Topic: The Responsibility and Mission of Translation Scholars in the New Era

Abstract: In the new historical era, translation studies in China has grown robustly and rapidly, and has made great contributions to expanding the full scope of foreign language and literature studies and promoting the construction of the discipline. Based on the development of translation studies in China and my extensive personal experience, this paper offers some perspectives on how translation scholars can fulfill their responsibilities and missions in three areas, namely student training, academic research and social services.

The lecture will be conducted in Mandarin with simultaneous interpretation into English on Zoom.

Please register for the forum by 11 Mar 2022 (Fri) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8H5wmZZQqU4qQmi.

For more information, kindly refer to the below poster.