Hyperlocal to Global: Cultural Hybridity and Translation (February 2025)
The conference will provide an invaluable opportunity for scholars, researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts to contribute to explore and exchange ideas on how AI influences the blending of the local with the global and how cultural hybridity (glocal) is represented and transmitted across various media through AI-generated translation. It will focus on the tensions, opportunities, and implications of these processes in the context of the digital era, examining the role of AI in shaping/reshaping narratives, media, languages, and cultural goods.
Key Note Speaker:
Professor Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dr. Dorothy Kenny is full professor of translation studies at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and German from DCU and a Master of Science in Machine Translation and a PhD in Language Engineering, both from the University of Manchester, UK. Her current research interests include corpus-based analyses of translation and translator style, the relationship between artificial intelligence and literary translation, and approaches to the teaching of translation technology. Her most recent book is the open-access edited volume Machine Translation for Everyone: Empowering Users in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Language Science Press, 2022). She is co-editor (with Joss Moorkens) of the journal Translation Spaces and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
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