GRADUATE

4 - 6 ​APRIL ​2025

@transhumksu

@transhumksu

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

SATURDAY, APRIL 5

(Morning)

SATURDAY, APRIL 5

(Afternoon)

SUNDAY, APRIL 6

DR. RICHARD WATTS (U WASHINGTON)

This lecture endeavors to consider simultaneously two important approaches in contemporary ​humanities scholarship that are typically engaged with separately: translation/multilingualism ​studies and the environmental humanities. As David Gramling has pointed out in his work on the so-​called Linguacene, Anthropocene discourse on the environment is fiercely monolingual, and this ​lecture aims both to explain why that is the case and to explore cultural texts in which ​representations of translation and multilingualism, especially in contexts of war and migration, ​share space with representations of environmental degradation. How, in brief, do the ways we think ​about translation and multilingualism change in a time of a rapidly degrading climate?

Source: Collage featuring photo of Dr. Watts

AVT & Multilingual Stories

APRIL 5 8:30 AM - SATTERFIELD HALL 112

This workshop on audiovisual translation focuses on ​developments in the subtitles to feature films, ​television/streaming series, documentaries, video ​shorts, and other a/v media that tell multilingual ​stories. Some practical and technical aspects of ​subtitling will be discussed, but the workshop will ​foreground the ethical and aesthetic dilemmas that ​the contemporary multilingual-media landscape ​provokes for translators and subtitlers.

DR. RICHARD WATTS (U WASHINGTON)

Becoming Visible: A Q&A on ​Translators on Translation

APRIL 5 1:30 PM - SATTERFIELD HALL 112

This session presents Translators on Translation: ​Profiles of the Art (Routledge, 2025), a new book of ​microhistories of twenty late-twentieth-century ​translators, including translational biographical ​research on such figures as Langston Hughes, William ​Carlos Williams, and Vladimir Nabokov. Recovery of ​their philosophies of translation, avant-textes, and ​reflective meditations frame a discussion of ​translation biography as literary preservation. Some ​possible rhizomes to follow: Translators’ multi-role, ​‘nested identities’ (Kaindl 2024) and decision-making, ​‘doing theory’ (even while resisting it), and ​translation’s ongoing shift from mimesis to ​hermeneutic transformation.

Source: Photo of Dr. Washbourne from National Endowment for the Arts

DR. RICHARD KELLY WASHBOURNE

(KSU)

IN CONVERSATION WITH

ALBERTO MORÁN & JAVIER DE LA MORENA

HUMANIZING T&I TECHNOLOGY

APRIL 5 5:00 PM - SATTERFIELD HALL 112

Drawing on sociological approaches to TI research, ​this workshop queries how to adopt a human-​centered approach to researching translation and ​interpreting technologies. These approaches ​recognize the situated nature of using these tools ​and facilitate scholarship that keeps humans in the ​loop.

DR. CHRISTOPHER D. MELLINGER

(UNC CHARLOTTE)

Source: college featuring photo of Dr. Mellinger

INTRO TO ACADEMIC PUBLISHING

APRIL 6 10:30AM - SATTERFIELD HALL 112

This workshop offers a general introduction to academic ​publishing in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Aimed at advanced doctoral students and early career scholars, ​the workshop provides an overview of the major publishing ​venues in the field, expectations for manuscripts (i.e., what makes ​a manuscript publishable), as well as the technicalities of ​manuscript submission, review and revision.

The workshop presents a unique opportunity for attendees to ​pose questions directly to the editor of an academic journal and ​a scholarly book series.

DR. BRIAN JAMES BAER

(KSU)

Source: college featuring photo of Dr. Baer

FRIDAY REGISTRATION, KEY NOTE LECTURE, AND RECEPTION

WILL TAKE PLACE IN MOULTON HALL - BALLROOM - 101

Address: 800 Hilltop Dr, Kent, OH 44240

THE REST OF THE CONFERENCE

WILL TAKE PLACE IN SATTERFIELD HALL 112 AND 121

Address: 850 University Esplanade, Kent, Ohio 44242

SATURDAY OPTIONAL DINNER

WILL TAKE PLACE IN LAZIZA

Address: 195 E Erie St, Kent, OH 44240

Menu

Parking is free on the weekends, starting on Friday at 6pm and until ​Sunday morning.

The closest parking lot to Satterfield Hall is LOT-R7.

For Friday, you can park in any of the visitor parking lots on campus.

Check the Visitor Parking Guide for information about prices.

You can also check the Visitor Parking Map to browse the different ​parking locations.

Laziza does not offer a free parking lot, but you can park for free in ​the free parking areas that Kent has in downtown. Most of them ​are less than 5 minutes away (walking distance) from the ​restaurant.

To check the free parking locations here.

• KENT STATE UNIVERSITY HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER
• To book the room at a discounted price, dd the promotional code KSUKTS when ​proceeding with the reservation on kentstatehotel.com In the booking box, hit the ​arrow down to change Promo code to Group code, then put the code in and hit ​apply. The room can also be booked by calling the front desk at (+1) 330-346-0100.
  

Other options (not at a walking distance)

1. Holiday Inn Express and Suites (Brimfield)
   
2. Hampton Inn (Brimfield)
3. Super 8 by Windham (Brimfield)

• Akron-Canton Airport (CAK)
  
• Driving time: 30 minutes
  
• Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE)
  
• Driving time: 50 minutes
  
• Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)
  
• Driving time: 90 minutes
  

For more information about the conference, ​please visit our Conference Program

: KTSgradconference@gmail.com

Image Sources: Photograph “Gregory Rabassa”, Phil Cantor, 1985

Photograph “Rose Quong”, RAHS

Illustration of James Covey from James Warner Barber’s A ​history of the Amistad captives (1840)