Keynote lectures and guest seminars/workshops
Dec. 2015. ´Between paradigms: a critical approach to the study of academic translation’: guest lecture at Symposium on Circulation of academic thought: Rethinking methods in the study of scientific translation. University of Graz,
Nov. 2015. ‘The influence of English upon Portuguese academic discourse’: guest lecture at Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG),
June 2015. ‘The semiperiphery of academic writing’: keynote lecture at Annual Conference of AELFE (European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes), Bucharest University of Economic Studies.
April 2015: ‘Resisting epistemicide in academic translation’: guest seminar, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting Studies, School of Modern Languages, Queens University, Belfast.
Sept. 2014. 'Deconstructing English Academic Discourse'. Keynote lecture at 6th Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English, Masaryk University, Brno
May 2014. 'Academic Writing and Translation'. Guest speaker at Estudos de Tradução à Conversa' (ETC), University of Lisbon
Sept. 2013: 'Resistant translation in the Global Knowledge Exchange: can it combat epistemicide? Keynote lecture at international conference Rethinking Domination and Hegemony in Translation, Bangor
Nov. 2012: 'Epistemicide in academia: beyond discourse' . Keynote lecature at conference on English as Lingua Franca for Scientific Communication, University of Zaragoza.
Oct. 2012: 'Translating Portuguese scholarly discourse: is epistemicide inevitable?' Guest seminar and translation workshop at Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Cork
Jan. 2012: 'Epistemicide in modern academia: the political and cultural consequences of English as a lingua franca'. Keynote lecture at the 5th Symposium on English for Specific Purposes, University of Stockholm.
May 2011: 'Footprints in the text: assessing the impact of translation upon Portuguese historiographic discourse'. Guest lecture/workshop at University of Oporto
Feb. 2011: 'T-Rex in action: assessing the impact of translation upon non-English academic discourses'. Guest seminar at Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester
May 2010: 'Discourses of knowledge: cultural disjunctions and their implications for the language industries'. Keynote lecture at conference Le multiculturalisme et le role des langues spécialisées, Lisbon
April 2009: 'The Language of Dance'. Guest lecture at the 9th English Studies Conference on Visual and Performance Culture, Braga
Nov. 2007: 'Breaking the ice: getting started in the translation profession'. Guest lecture at the Department of Language and Cultures, University of Aveiro
