Hoa Sen university representative attended NIDA school of translation studies
Dr. Pham Quoc Loc, Director of the General Education Program at Hoa Sen University, was invited to attend and give a lecture at the Nida School of Translation Studies held at Istituto San Pellegrino, Misano, Italy, from May 19 to June 2, 2012. As a faculty member of the school, Dr. Pham presented his most recent study entitled “Deconstructing Translational Dichotomies: Vietnam in-between Globalization and Localization”. In his lecture, Dr. Pham traced the history of translation in Vietnam back to the traditional practice of diễn nôm and argued that originality and faithfulness as understood in Vietnam today are a recent...