A conference bringing together all participants will be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) in London on 21-22 June 2021. The Keynote Speaker will be Professor Charles Forsdick.
With special presentations:
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
This British Academy-funded project examines the role that modern languages and translation studies can play in revealing new ways of thinking about and communicating Covid-19. Focusing on the language used in multilingual healthcare settings, international public health campaigns and by patients across the globe, the project analyses what new facets or understandings of the disease might be revealed by a linguistic and cultural encounter with non-anglophone languages and societies. The project is formed of three connecting strands.