Translating Refugees: Conducting Empirical Research on the Intersection of Language and Social Justice

Online Translation Seminar

“Translating Refugees: Conducting Empirical Research on the Intersection of Language and Social Justice”

Speaker: Dr Katrijn Maryns (Ghent University, Belgium)
Moderator: Professor Min-hua Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Organizer: Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University

The speaker will reveal, on the basis of authentic data examples from asylum interviews and legal judgments, how the co-construction of meaning, evidence and identities may amplify the asylum applicant’s vulnerability of voice.

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