Opening Plenary - a podcast by Free Word

This plenary panel will examine the UK’s changing demographics, and what they might tell us about who translators are and where we might find them. How has the make-up of our cities changed?
Will translators of the future be drawn mostly from second-generation urban immigrants rather than(as in the past) primarily anglophones with modern languages degrees? Will Brexit make things worse, or better? How well is the diversity of our contemporary culture currently reflected in the translation profession, and what can we do to improve the breadth of that representation?

With Sarah Ardizzone, Vanni Bianconi, Adrian Blackledge and Francisca McNeill, chaired by Erica Jarnes, managing director of the Poetry Translation Centre.

With support from the AHRC “Translating Cultures” theme

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