Keynote Speakers

Minako O’Hagan

Minako O’Hagan, PhD, has worked at the University of Auckland School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics in New Zealand since 2016, having taught at Dublin City University between 2002 and 2016. She has broad research interests in the nexus of technology and translation to explore the impact of technologization on the practice and research of T&I. To date she has graduated twelve PhD students researching related topics. Her publications include The Coming Industry of Teletranslation (O’Hagan 1996), Translation-Mediated Communication in a Digital World (O’Hagan and Ashworth 2002), Game Localization (O’Hagan and Mangiron 2013) and the edited volume the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology (O’Hagan 2020). She is Editor for the John Benjamins’ journal Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization.

 

 

 

Luc van Doorslaer

Luc van Doorslaer is Full Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia), the former President of CETRA (2014-18), the Center for Translation Studies at KU Leuven (Belgium), and Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Since 2016, he is Vice President of EST, the European Society for Translation Studies. He is journal editor of ‘Translation in Society’ (John Benjamins) and book series editor of ‘Translation, Interpreting & Transfer’ (Leuven University Press). He has published widely in the field of translation studies, mainly on his research interests journalism and translation, sociology of translation, imagology and translation, and the institutionalization of translation studies. His most recent book is entitled The Situatedness of Translation Studies. Temporal and Geographical Dynamics of Theorization (Brill, 2021).

CV and publications
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-0663

 

 

 

Adrian Probst

Adrian Probst is an English/French to German translator and language specialist. He offers specialized language services for the sports business. Moreover, he hosts a YouTube channel called Freelanceverse (29k subscribers) where he shares one video a week about the industry, languages, freelancing and various other topics.