Keynote Speaker

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“Digital Humanitarianism: AI, Translation, and Intercultural Mediation in the ‘Global South,’"Academic Symposium on Translation and International Communication in the New Era, Xi'an University of Petroleum, 19-20 December 2025.

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"AI and Equitable Inclusion Keynote,” FIT World Congress, Geneva, 4-6 September 2025.

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“T&I in Crises”, SoLLaT Postgraduate Conference 2024, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 29 November 2024.

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"Interpreting at the Border,"  Language of the Third Millennium XII Kraków, Poland, 23 March 2022.

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"Macedonian Children's Literature: Text and Context,"  5th Festival of Children's Literature: The Other Story, Skopje, 4 September 2020

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Masterclass

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“Publishing in peer-reviewed journals as an early career researchers”, IPCITI Workshop, University of Manchester, 6 December 2024.

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Seminar Series

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“Digital Environmental Activism: Youth-Led Translation Networks and AI translation,” MA program in Researching Translation and Interpreting, Universitat Jaume I, 13 December 2024.​

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“Interpreting Crises," Faculty and Community Seminar on Interpreting Studies and Practice,  University of Massachusetts Amherst, 30 November 2023.

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“Images of the Western Balkans in English Translation for Children,” Translation Seminar Series, Hong Kong Baptist University, 21 April 2016.​​

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Invited Speaker

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“Innocence Interrupted: Children Bearing Witness to War,” Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, 9 October 2025,

 

"Telling and Interpreting a War," Panel discussion, Festival della Traduzione di Forlí, 19 October 2023.

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Tangibility of Translation, Panel discussion, University of Galway, 30 September 2022.

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"Break Out",  Poetry Reading and Discussion, IPNHK, Hong Kong, 12 June 2021.

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“Upon Arrival: Otherness, Belonging and Hospitality”, One City One Book Hong Kong, 25 March 2019.

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“Community Service: Work in the Humanities, for Humanity”, Cha Reading Series, 6 December 2018. 

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“Teaching Translation in Hong Kong”, Hong Kong Week, Hong Kong Baptist University, 30 April 2018.

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“Literature for Children Teaching Inclusion and Diversity”, International Festival of Children’s Literature, Skopje, 15-17 September 2017.

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“Interpreters in Conflict and Crises”, Macedonian Translators Association, 25 July 2017.

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“Identity Formation, Dissolution, and Reorganization in Multiethnic Societies: Toward the Establishment of a Vojvodina Area Studies”, JCAS Workshop, Tokyo Office of Hokkaido University, 2 February 2014.

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“Translation of Small Languages in the Global Market”, at UNESCO Symposium on Translation and Intercultural Mediation, Paris, France, 22-23 February 2010.

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Book Talks

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Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Crisis; Christophe Declercq (editor, moderator), Koen Kerrenans (editor, moderator), Louisa Semlyen (Routledge, speaker), Ineke Crezee (AUT, speaker), and Marija Todorova (HKBU, speaker), Teams Event online, 19 June 2024.

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Interpreter Training in Conflict and Post-conflict Scenarios; Marija Todorova (Speaker), Lucia Ruiz Rosendo (Speaker), Jun PAN (Moderator) & Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (Speaker), Hong Kong Baptist University Library, 26 Apr 2023.

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The translation of violence in children’s literature: images from the Western Balkans, Marija Todorova (Speaker), Mark Shuttleworth (Speaker), Robert John Neather (Speaker) & Brian Baer (Speaker), Hong Kong Baptist University Library, 27 May 2022.

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Interpreting Conflict: a Comparative Framework, Marija Todorova (Speaker) & Lucia Ruiz Rosendo (Speaker), Hong Kong Baptist University Library, 29 Oct 2021.

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Made into Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary, Marija Todorova (Speaker), Stuart Christie (Speaker), Wing Kin Vinton Poon (Speaker), John Wakefield (Speaker), Tammy Ho Lai-Ming (Moderator) & Kum Hoon Ng (Speaker), Hong Kong Baptist University Library, 2 May 2018

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Moving Homeland: Reimagining Hong Kong while Translating Macedonian Poetry, Marija Todorova (Speaker), Zoran Poposki (Speaker), Heidi Huang (Moderator), Kowloon City Book Fair, 17 December 2017.