The Languages of Covid-19: Implications for Global Healthcare
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Conference Programme:
Monday 21 June
10.00am Welcome:Steven Wilsonand Piotr Blumczynski (organisers)
10.15am Panel 1. Recalibrations of Language during Covid-19
(Chair: Claudia Angelelli)
Catherine Boyle and Renata Brandão (King’s College London), Worldmaking in the Time of Covid-19. The Challenge of the Local and the Global
Anna Rasokat (University of Cologne), Controversies about an Adequate Language with which to Represent Covid-19 – Deliberate Language Change and the Role of Humanities Experts in Germany
Patrizia Piredda (University of Oxford), War-Metaphors During the Covid-Pandemic. Persuasion and Manipulation
Beatrice Sica(University College London), Covid-19, Language(s), and the Resignification of Space
12.15pm Lunch
1.15pmPanel 2. Media Discourses of Covid-19
(Chair: Piotr Blumczynski)
Andrea Liebschner (Ural Federal University, Russia), The Language of Covid-19 in the Russian Online Media of the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia
Jack McMartin, Elisa Nelissen, Michaël Opgenhaffen, and Luc van Doorslaer (KU Leuven), The International Circulation of Science News in the Covid-19 era: Translation and Remediation Practices in Three Flemish Newsrooms
Anthony Pym and Bei Hu(University of Melbourne), Community Trust in Translated Behaviour-Change Communication: Ethics between Academics and the Press
2.45pm Break
3.15pm Roundtable: Transnational Cultural Responses to Covid-19
(Invited Convenor and Moderator: Marta Arnaldi)
Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford), COVID-19: A Translational Imagination
Timo Obergöker (University of Chester), ‘Covid-pop’ and Multilingualism
Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University, Houston, Texas), The Visual Language of Covid-19
Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast), Franco-Belgian Covid Graphic Medicine
4.45pm Break
5.15pm Keynote: Prof. Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) Translating Cultures, Translating Covid
(Chair: Steven Wilson)
6.30pm End of Day 1
Tuesday 22 June
9.30amPanel 3. Translation and Communication in a Public Health Crisis
(Chair: Piotr Blumczynski)
Demi Krystallidou and Sabine Braun (University of Surrey), Risk Communication during COVID-19 in Linguistically Diverse Communities: Challenges and Ways Forward
Sue-Ann Harding (Queen’s University Belfast), “Stay on Country, Care for Family”: Translating Public Health Messages in Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities during the Covid-19 Global Pandemic
M. Rosario Martín Ruano (University of Salamanca), Understanding COVID through Translation: The Challenges for Intelligibility of/amid a Global Pandemic
11.00am Break
11.30amPanel 4. (Overcoming) Language Barriers
(Chair: Lorraine Leeson)
Gerardo García Chinchay (Universidad César Vallejo, Peru)
) and Claudia Sánchez Tafur (Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, Peru), The Implementation of the Peruvian Indigenous Languages Interpreting and Translation Centre as a Compliance of Linguistic Rights Strategy in the Peruvian Healthcare System during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Robert Adam and Jemina Napier (Herriot-Watt University), (Lack of) Access to Government Covid-19 Public Health Information in BSL: What was the Prophylactic Effect on the British Deaf Community?
Karolien Gebruers, Lien Vermeire and Jaron Garitte (KU Leuven), “Finally It Was Time to Provide a Deaf Interpreter”. A Multiparty Perspective on the Provision of Signed Language Interpreters at the COVID-19 Press Briefings in Belgium
1.00pm Lunch
1.45pm Panel 5. The Rhetoric of Disease
(Chair: Steven Wilson)
Loic Bourdeau (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) and V. Hunter Capps (SUNY Buffalo, New York), SARS-CoV-2 and Discursive Inoculation: Lessons from HIV/AIDS
Wanrug Suwanwattana (Thammasat University, Thailand), Between Global and National(ism): Covid-19 in Thai Public Health Discourse
Marlon James Sales (University of Michigan), A Lockdown by Any Other Name…: Populist Rhetoric as a Translation Strategy in Duterte’s Philippines
3.15pm Break
3.30pm Panel 6. Linguistic Prophylaxis
(Chair: Sue-Ann Harding)
Emilie Garrigou-Kempton (Pomona College, Claremont, California), Into the Tower of Babel: Learning from the Challenges of Multilingualism during a Pandemic
Ruqaya Sabeeh Al-Taie (University of Basra, Iraq), The Role of Prophylactic Language Used by Cartoonists in Enhancing the Understanding of Covid-19
Li Li (University of East Anglia), The Languages of Covid-19 and Maternity: A Complex and Shared Responsibility
5.00pm Break
5.30pmConcluding Roundtable
(Moderator: Piotr Blumczynski)
Reflections from Claudia V. Angelelli, Marta Arnaldi, Charles Forsdick and Lorraine Leeson, followed by general discussion.
6.30pm End of Conference
This project is funded by The British Academy
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