HBKU’s international conference discusses pandemic's impact on translation, interpretation

Doha: Reflecting on COVID-19’s impact within the broader framework of an evolving professional landscape, the Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII), part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), held its 11th International Translation Conference online recently. 

Dr. Amal Al Malki, Founding Dean of CHSS, HBKU, introduced this year’s theme, “COVID-19 and Current Changes in Translation and Interpreting Studies”, linking to the ramp-up of digitized workplaces, artificial intelligence-based machine translation, collaborative translation platforms and blended learning since the pandemic outbreak.  Keynote speeches by leading scholars delved into human-machine relationships in translation; how translation has become a way to (re)connect during uncertain times; and the role and training of professional translators post-pandemic.