The Indispensability of Intercultural Competence in the Professional Translator

Speaker:

Martin Ward (PhD, Hiroshima) FHEA PGCAP is an Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese Translation at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published several China-related translations from Chinese and Japanese into English of historical documents, Chinese political discourse (such as Chapters 7 & 8 of J. Bian, The Communist Party of China: A Concise History: ACA Publishing Ltd, 2021), and literature, and also conducts research into the translation of the Kempeitai documents, Chinese political discourse, translation pedagogy and international telecollaboration. He is currently a Fellow of the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence, researching barriers to COIL-type interventions, and also employs international telecollaboration in his translation pedagogy. He is also the founder of the East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance (EATPA) network, which brings together educators teaching East Asian language translation at HE level across the globe to share best practice and advance pedagogic methodologies.