Events

Thu, 12.05.2022, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT "Speaking and being" with Kübra Gümüsay

Join us in person or online via livestream for the launch of the English translation of Kübra Gümüşay's bestselling book: Speaking and Being, translated by Gesche Ipsen and published by Profile Books.

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Earlier events

© Goethe-Institut. Illustration: EL BOUM

Hackathon in October 2021
Artificially Correct Hackathon

How does bias get into translation and what can we do about it? To find answers and solutions to this question, we invited activists, translators, software developers and everyone who is interested in the topic to join our online hackathon at the beginning of October 2021. Have a read about the results or watch video interviews with two winner groups.
© Khairani Barokka and Amy Zayed

Joint discussion with macht.sprache
macht.sprache. & Artificially Correct: Diskussion mit Amy Zayed und Khairani Barokka

Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 7 pm (CEST), online

Discrimination works in and through language, and to tackle the many problems this presents, it is necessary to develop a sensitivity for how it happens. Drawing on the expertise of the invited speakers, this event will focus on terminology around different axes of power, e.g. (dis)ability and race in different geographic and professional contexts.
© Goethe-Institut. Illustration: EL BOUM

International Translation Day 2021 Debatte
Translation as Activism: the political responsibility of the translator in the 21st century

To mark this year's ITD the Goethe-Institut London looked at the political responsibilities of the translator in our turbulent times. How can translators take an activist role, and is it their responsibility to do so? [Recording]
Workshop in cooperation with macht.sprache
Translating sensitive terms

The aim of the workshop is to discuss translations of biased terms from German into other languages and to find solutions for bias-conscious use of language and translation in the different languages of the participants.
© Goethe-Institut. Illustration: EL BOUM

Workshop for Students
Translating Gender - Gender Übersetzen

Join Katy Derbyshire and Pete Freeth for a workshop considering the challenges of gender when translating from German. The workshop will be run in English but will focus on German-language examples.

Thu, 12.05.2022, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT "Speaking and being" with Kübra Gümüsay

Earlier events

Artificially Correct Hackathon

macht.sprache. & Artificially Correct: Diskussion mit Amy Zayed und Khairani Barokka

Translation as Activism: the political responsibility of the translator in the 21st century

Translating sensitive terms

Translating Gender - Gender Übersetzen