December 2019 took Æ Academic to the University of Wrocław, Poland, where we shared our experiences on preparing audio descriptions of fine arts masterpieces for the blind audience in the US.
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Between Text and Culture
November marks the launch of our new series, a series that reaches beyond language. The first volume is devoted to a panorama of Polish studies on translation theory, history, and applications that have been gathered, for the first time, all under one sail, Between the Text and Culture: On Translation Issues.
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It is our immense pleasure to officially introduce our new cooperation with outstanding institutions of education and culture in Poland. The spiritus movens of the whole enterprise is …
Read moreAuthors in spare time
Our historical linguists are very busy taking some well-deserved rest after a long academic year and right before the next one starts, much as it already looms around the corner…
Read moreAudio description of Bruegel
Read on about a complex and picturesque painting which uses aerial perspective to cram into a single work tons of narratives – to include a plowman with a purse and dagger, wearing clothes that clearly would never be worn by a field worker; an inattentive shepherd with …
Read moreAudio description of Caravaggio
Read on about a masterful use of light and the viewer’s basic human nature to draw them into the painting, and maybe even the subject’s state of mind. As a person with …
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