Join the Scottish Society at their online event about interdisciplinary research pro jects involving science fiction and different kind s of translation. The Multilingual Science Fiction Translation Project\, based at the St Andrews Cen tre for Exoplanet Science\, employed multilingual students and those studying in the School of Moder n Languages as translators. They took examples of imaginary exoplanets from science fiction publishe d in Bulgarian\, Catalan\, German\, Hindi\, Japane se\, Malay\, Russian and Slovak and translated ext racts into English\; translated a passage from Nne di Okorafor’sÌýµþ¾±²Ô³Ù¾±Ìýseries into multiple la nguages\; and worked with exoplanet scientists to ‘translate’ specialist knowledge about real exopla nets as annotations to the fictional extracts. In another project\, we use scenarios from science fi ction as a reservoir of ideas about possible futur es in space. For centuries\, science fiction has p redicted the consequences— from physical to moral\ , individual to societal — of real and imagined sc ientific advances. We will discuss how translation s from science fiction can inform ethical thinking and ensure diverse voices are heard by researcher s who are making human futures in space a reality.
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\n \nDr Emily Finer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andre ws and Co-Director of the interdisciplinary St And rews Centre for Exoplanet Science. She researches transnational and multilingual interactions betwee n English\, Polish\, Ukrainian\, Yiddish and Russi an language cultures\, and the relationship betwee n science fiction and science.
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\n \n DESCRIPTION:Join the Scottish Society at their online event ab out interdisciplinary research projects involving science fiction and different kinds of translation . The Multilingual Science Fiction Translation Pro ject\, based at the St Andrews Centre for Exoplane t Science\, employed multilingual students and tho se studying in the School of Modern Languages as t ranslators. They took examples of imaginary exopla nets from science fiction published in Bulgarian\, Catalan\, German\, Hindi\, Japanese\, Malay\, Rus sian and Slovak and translated extracts into Engli sh\; translated a passage from Nnedi Okorafor’sÌýBi ntiÌýseries into multiple languages\; and worked wi th exoplanet scientists to ‘translate’ specialist knowledge about real exoplanets as annotations to the fictional extracts. In another project\, we us e scenarios from science fiction as a reservoir of ideas about possible futures in space. For centur ies\, science fiction has predicted the consequenc es— from physical to moral\, individual to societa l — of real and imagined scientific advances. We w ill discuss how translations from science fiction can inform ethical thinking and ensure diverse voi ces are heard by researchers who are making human futures in space a reality.\n \n \n \n Speaker Bio :\n \n \n \n Dr Emily Finer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University o f St Andrews and Co-Director of the interdisciplin ary St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science. She r esearches transnational and multilingual interacti ons between English\, Polish\, Ukrainian\, Yiddish and Russian language cultures\, and the relations hip between science fiction and science.\n \n \n \ n Ìý\n \n \n \n Timings:\n \n \n \n 10:00am – 10:05 am Introduction\n \n \n \n 10:05am – 10:50am Talk\ n \n \n \n 10:50am – 11:00am Q&A\n \n \n \n Ìý\n \n \n \n BOOK ONLINE\n CATEGORIES:Scottish Society event CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/London:20251129T100000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251129T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251129T110000 LOCATION:Online event (Zoom)\n URL:/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=351 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR