Renée Desjardins

Renée Desjardins (pronouns: she/her) is an associate professor at the Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg [Treaty 1], Canada. She is the author of Translation and Social Media: In Theory, in Training, and in Professional Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the co-editor of When Translation Goes Digital: Case Studies and Critical Reflections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

She has been researching and writing about translation and social media for over fifteen years and has published on the subject in a number of other outlets, including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics, and in a special issue of Translation Studies on “Social Translation”. Her most recent work, which has been funded institutionally and nationally, examines translation in the creator, influencer, and gig economies. She currently holds two national research grants from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada: an Insight grant for a project titled: TikTokers, Instagrammers, Podcasters, Livestreamers – and Translators: Translation in the Creator Economy, and a Connection grant as a team member for the LINET, a francophone research group focused on translator education, translation pedagogy, and new technology.

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The conference is a partial output of the following grants:

VEGA 2/0092/23 Translation and Translating as a Part of the Slovak Cultural Space History and Present. Transformations of Form, Status and Functions: Texts, Personages, Institutions.

VEGA 1/0214/24 Obraz prekladateľov a tlmočníkov v spoločnosti/The image of translators and interpreters in society.

APVV-23-0539 Príprava prekladateľov a tlmočníkov na budúcnosť: Zriadenie znalostnej platformy pre poskytovateľov jazykových služieb na Slovensku/Future-Proofing Translators and Interpreters: Establishing a Knowledge Platform for Language Professionals in Slovakia.

VEGA 1/0113/23 Špecifiká lokalizácie softvérových produktov v jazykovom páre slovenčina – angličtina/Localization of Software Products Specifics in the Slovak – English Language Pair.

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