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The School of Global Affairs is delighted to host this special seminar by Dr Damien Hansen from the Université libre de Bruxelles. He will be presenting some of the uses, contexts and case studies around the deployment of translation technology in creative translation. All welcome to join online.

Through the constant themes of using personal translator corpora and reappropriating technology for individual and creative uses, the talk will cover and illustrate actual applications and experimental customization of computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation systems, using both the literary field and video game works as concrete examples. To wrap up this conversation and open the discussion, Dr Damien Hansen will also highlight the transversal concerns and risks associated with technology in these fields, which can be easily applied to the more recent yet very predictable rush towards AI.

Dr. Damien Hansen is an assistant professor of translation and AI at the ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles), in Belgium. He holds a PhD in translation studies from the University of Liège, Belgium, and a PhD in computer science from the Grenoble Alpes University, France, which he obtained after working on the use and reappropriation of translation technologies in creative domains. Since then, this interest has shifted more exclusively towards the ergonomic, cognitive and socio-economic factors already involved in this line of research. As a member of the Liège Game Lab, his work also explores the notions of language and literacy through video games.