Translation Studies Research Seminar Series: Minlin Yu In brief Date - 2 December 2026Venue - Room G.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Minlin Yu (University of Glasgow)Chair - Professor Charlotte Bosseaux (Translation Studies)Title - Bias Without Bodies: A Situated Critique of Generative AI Translation About the speakerDr Minlin Yu is a Lecturer in Translation Studies with Chinese Mandarin at the University of Glasgow. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Glasgow; her PhD project examined the translation/construction of gender roles and identities across a century of Chinese cultural history. Fascinated by questions spanning gender, culture, translation, and technology, Minlin situates her research across these disciplinary and interdisciplinary domains. Her current research interests address gender and cultural biases in large language models (LLMs) used as machine translation (MT) systems.How to attendThis event is open to all and free to attend. No registration is required - just come along!About the seminar seriesEach semester, we welcome a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their work in translation.Our seminar series is run collaboratively by staff and postgraduate students, enabling our early career researchers to build networks and experience.Entry is free and no booking is required. Everyone is welcome.Are you interested in Translation Studies at Edinburgh?Providing excellent teaching and supervision, our postgraduate MSc and PhD programmes are among the UK's most comprehensive and flexible. Our expertise covers a wide range of research areas and many languages, of which you can choose to work with two. Find out more about postgraduate programmes in Translation Studies Tags Translation Studies Dec 02 2026 16.10 - 18.00 Translation Studies Research Seminar Series: Minlin Yu An in-person seminar by Dr Minlin Yu (University of Glasgow), titled 'Bias Without Bodies: A Situated Critique of Generative AI Translation'. Room G.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square This article was published on Monday 29 September 2025
Translation Studies Research Seminar Series: Minlin Yu In brief Date - 2 December 2026Venue - Room G.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Minlin Yu (University of Glasgow)Chair - Professor Charlotte Bosseaux (Translation Studies)Title - Bias Without Bodies: A Situated Critique of Generative AI Translation About the speakerDr Minlin Yu is a Lecturer in Translation Studies with Chinese Mandarin at the University of Glasgow. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Glasgow; her PhD project examined the translation/construction of gender roles and identities across a century of Chinese cultural history. Fascinated by questions spanning gender, culture, translation, and technology, Minlin situates her research across these disciplinary and interdisciplinary domains. Her current research interests address gender and cultural biases in large language models (LLMs) used as machine translation (MT) systems.How to attendThis event is open to all and free to attend. No registration is required - just come along!About the seminar seriesEach semester, we welcome a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their work in translation.Our seminar series is run collaboratively by staff and postgraduate students, enabling our early career researchers to build networks and experience.Entry is free and no booking is required. Everyone is welcome.Are you interested in Translation Studies at Edinburgh?Providing excellent teaching and supervision, our postgraduate MSc and PhD programmes are among the UK's most comprehensive and flexible. Our expertise covers a wide range of research areas and many languages, of which you can choose to work with two. Find out more about postgraduate programmes in Translation Studies Tags Translation Studies Dec 02 2026 16.10 - 18.00 Translation Studies Research Seminar Series: Minlin Yu An in-person seminar by Dr Minlin Yu (University of Glasgow), titled 'Bias Without Bodies: A Situated Critique of Generative AI Translation'. Room G.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square This article was published on Monday 29 September 2025
Dec 02 2026 16.10 - 18.00 Translation Studies Research Seminar Series: Minlin Yu An in-person seminar by Dr Minlin Yu (University of Glasgow), titled 'Bias Without Bodies: A Situated Critique of Generative AI Translation'.
