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Facing the Future – Translation and Technology, Glendon College, York University (Toronto) – March 14, 2020

FACING THE FUTURE – TRANSLATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Glendon College, York University (Toronto) – March 14, 2020 

Keynote speaker: Sharon O’Brien, Dublin City University

Into the second decade of the 21st century, technology continues to play an increasing role in translation processes and translator environments. What is translatable or not translatable through the mediation of machines is a central question as we head into the era of neural translation and AI. At the same time other questions emerge: are the existing models of collaborative translation, crowdsourcing, machine translated corpora, and cloud-based CAT tools leading us towards a new era of multi-modal plurality or to a fragmented dystopia where quality becomes a casualty? Is the interaction of human and machine in present and future translation ecologies a harbinger of an enlightened posthumanism or a problematic process that favours disembodied networks, algorithmic decision-making, and unsustainable growth in a time of runaway climate change and environmental degradation? This year’s graduate student conference will address what Minako O’Hagan (2019) describes as a kind of quantum entanglement, the link between human and machine, a crucial issue for our century.

Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2020

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