ATU professors teach workshops at LSI's ninth summer school

Report by the Directorate for International Academic Cooperation –

(source: lsi.ir)

The ninth summer school of the Linguistic Society of Iran (LSI) was held 7-8 September 2022 in Zand Higher Education Institute. During this summer school, Professor Farzaneh Farahzad, Full Professor of Translation Studies; Dr Golnaz Modaressi Ghavam, Associate Professor of Linguistics, and Dr Zahra Atefmehr, a PhD graduate in Translation Studies from ATU administered workshops.

On the first day of the event, Dr Golnaz Modarresi Ghavam taught a workshop on the "Prosodic Features of Human Speech" and elaborated on the major role played by prosodic features in human communications and the transfer of feelings. 

On the second day also, Dr Farzaneh Farahzah, Full Professor of Translation Studies at ATU, and Ms Zahra Atefmehr, a PhD graduate in Translation Studies, taught a workshop on "Microhistory Writing in Translation Studies" and discussed the topic as a new micro-historical trend in Translation Studies research. They addressed the "inherent flaws in the conventional and social histories of translation" and highlighted the importance of microhistory in filling the knowledge gap in this area.

It is worth adding that Farahzad and Atefmehr have previously published an article with the same title in Taylor and Francis' The Translator. The article is available on this page.

Other workshops and speeches delivered at the summer school included "Forensic Phonetics" by Dr Mandana Nourbakhsh; "Operationalization of the Meaning and Meaning-Therapy Trends: A Discoursal Approach to Lifestyle" by Dr Hamidreza Sha'iri; "Analyzing the Differential Components of Myth and Legend in Popular Culture" by Dr Siamak Sahebi; and "A Cognitive Approach to Studying Literature" by Dr Azita Afrashi.