DOTTSS | Doctoral and Teacher-Training Translation Studies Summer School is a joint initiative of 5 different universities: University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Turku (Finland), University of Tampere (Finland), University of Granada (Spain) and Boğaziçi University (Türkiye). The annually organised summer schools have been running in Slovenia, Spain and Finland alternatively since 2012. This year, the summer school was held at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, with Professor Jorge Diaz Cintas of the University College London invited as the guest professor. In 2023, the summer school was hosted by Tampere University: DOTTSS Summer School 2023 | June 12-22, 2023 | Tampere Universities
The DOTTSS activities focus on most current approaches to translation theory, different methodological approaches in translation studies, and teacher-training in the field of translator training. The school includes a series of lectures by the guest professor, tutorials for the doctoral students and young researchers, and a graduate conference. There is also a possibility of academic publication based on the participation in the summer school activities.
As part of the DOTTS programme, Prof Mikhail Mikhailov gave a talk on “Parallel corpora of political texts: the case of Lenin (ru-en, ru-fi and ru-es)”. Prof Kaisa Koskinen presented talks on three topics: “Paraprofessional translation: what is it and why study it?”; “Translatoriality and translationality: reconceptualising translation”; and “Using and reusing Concepts”.
Photos: Courtesy Prof Mikhail Mikhailov
