We’ll be speaking about the Ponying the Slovos conference, and our plans for the future tomorrow at Coventry University at 12.25pm in the Engineering building, EC1-03.

You’ll need to register to attend at https://cuacdev.wordpress.com/portfolio/cucbf/, or follow the hashtag at #CUcbf.

Once the presentation is over, it should be available on the Coventry University website in the future, and we’re hoping to make an announcement about the project’s future shortly.

Please get in touch with us at jim.clarke@coventry.ac.uk if you want to know more.

We just spent ten minutes getting interviewed in Klingon, Elvish and Nadsat on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire by afternoon show presenter Brody Swain. Lots of fun.

OK, the iPlayer link is now up. The slot begins at 2.11 and continues for about 11 minutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p03l4xrd

We are really excited to announce that we have not one but two amazing keynote speakers at the Ponying the Slovos conference next month.

Professor Andrew Biswell of Manchester Metropolitan University, a world authority on Anthony Burgess who authored A Clockwork Orange, will deliver a keynote lecture situating Nadsat in the context of Burgess’s oeuvre.

Additionally, Dr Marion Winters, who is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and German at Heriot-Watt University, will deliver a keynote lecture on corpus-based translation studies, focusing on parallel corpora  and translator style and creativity.

If you’d like to hear these eminent scholars, as well as a full day of fascinating papers from researchers from three continents, covering a fascinating range of topics relating to translation and invented languages, register (for free!) today to attend the symposium at http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ponyingtheslovos2016