The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies is pleased to invite you to “The State of Translation in the Philippines: Achievements and Ways Forward,” a roundtable discussion happening on 23 August 2019 (Friday), 1:00–4:00 PM, at the UP CIDS Conference Hall, LGF Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman.

Topics

The event will be a free-flowing discussion amongst the speakers and audience about the following topics:

• The state of translation studies and translation as a professional field in the country
• Opportunities and challenges for translators in the digital age
• Identifying key works and media for translation into Philippine languages
• Cooperation between different academic departments for projects in translation
• Distribution of books and economics of translation
• National policies affecting translation studies and translators

Speakers

The roundtable will feature the following speakers:

• Professor Wystan de la Peña (Department of European Languages, UP Diliman)
• Jillian Melchor (Department of European Languages, UP Diliman)
• Karina Bolasco (Ateneo de Manila University Press)
• Dr. Romulo Baquiran, Jr. (Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, UP Diliman)
• Dr. Michael Coroza (Kagawaran ng Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University)
• Dr. Mary-Ann Bacolod (Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman)
• Kristian Cordero (Ateneo de Naga University)

Registration

The event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration via [email protected] is highly encouraged. You may also contact the same email address for more information about the event.