Registrations are now open for APTIS25 “Better Together”: How Can Industry and Academia Collaborate to Empower Future Language Professionals? For information on how to book your place and the programme, please visit: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aptis25ucl/ We look forward to seeing lots of you there!

@centras-ucl.bsky.social is delighted to welcome Prof. Eva Ng, University of Hong Kong, for her talk entitled "Interpreting for jurors: Safeguarding or compromising defendants’ right to a fair trial?" 🗓 7.07.2025 🕘 13:00 (UK time) 🔗 Free bur Registration needed: form.jotform.com/251524594109...

APTIS25 Online Conference at the UCL Centre for Translation Studies (3–4 November 2025) “Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future language professionals?” Call for Contributions is now open until 16 June. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aptis25ucl @centras-ucl.bsky.social

Today, @centras-ucl.bsky.social students studying Translation for the Cultural and Heritage Sectors with Prof. Geraldine Brodie were the guests of the #BritishMuseum.

💡 Localisation is more than just translation, it’s about cultural adaptation. UCL @centras-ucl.bsky.social is helping client @netflix.com enhance its global content offering through bespoke training programme in dubbing, translation and adaptation. 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...

CenTraS’ first online Lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Dr Rasheed Abdul Hadi. Entitled ‘A wartime interpreter’, book the event online: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... 24 February 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm.

Dr Hayley Dawson (letstalkhumanskills.com/about) delivered a workshop at CenTraS, yesterday.🏛️ "Build your human skills, futureproof your career" allowed students and tutors to reflect on our personal, technological, and financial power. Insightful, inspiring, & highly interactive! Recommended!

First BlueSky Thread of 2025: Before Christmas, our Honorary Research Fellow @chrisdec71.bsky.social appeared on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...), discussing a remarkable police register from the First World War. The register contains details of 1,000 Belgian refugees.

Media Accessibility Winter School at Sapienza (17-21 February 2025). Classes will be delivered in English and Italian. Last day to register is tomorrow! seai.web.uniroma1.it/it/media-acc...

Thank you, Mark S Harrison and Desiré Da Ros (Netflix), for joining our CMII0097 Subtitling lecturers and students at CenTraS-UCL to discuss media localisation in Netflix. It is always a pleasure to have you with us at CenTraS!

Save the dates: 4-6 November 2026, Languages and the Media Conference. @centras-ucl.bsky.social 's Prof. Jorge Díaz Cintas will coordinate the event to be hosted at @uclofficial.bsky.social. #UCLBicentenary

Our first post on BluSky celebrates Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Rocío Baños, Soledad Zarate of CenTraS-UCL and Visiting Professor Frederic Chaume Varela, who developed dubbing training for Netflix. More information about this exciting collaboration here: www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...