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Type of Event: Conference
Date: 2011-04-13
Venue: University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Event theme(s): The Training and Research Group on Public Service Translation and Interpreting (FITISPos) at the University of Alcalá (UAH) (Madrid, Spain) are pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Public Service Translation and Interpreting to be hosted at the UAH, on the 13th and 15th of April 2011. This conference is intended to offer PSI&T researchers, practitioners, trainers, academics, public service authorities and people generally interested in intercultural communication and particularly in translation and interpreting a forum for dialogue in this new society which is being shaped at a global level, and exchange of views, projects and experiences like the previous ones held in 2002, 2005 and 2008. Being the main theme of the Conference: Future in the Present: Public Service Interpreting and Translation in the World Wide Web (PSIT in WWW) we encourage all those who are interested in it to send proposals on the following topics: 1. ICTs and Interpreting and Translation 2. Remote Interpreting 3. Intercultural Communication and technologies: progress and application 4. The interpreter "at distance" 5. Applications of new technologies in translation and/or interpreting 7. Training of translators and interpreters based on new technologies 8. Research and practice of interdisciplinary solutions to improve translator's training using new technologies. 9. Advances in finding common solutions between public and educational institutions

Description: The Conference will include plenary lectures, papers, seminars, posters and round tables. Participants delivering papers will have a maximum of 30 min (the discussion/questions time included). The official languages will be Spanish and English. All those who are interested in participating are kindly asked to send a 200-word abstract before November 30, 2010 by e-mail (with the abstract included in the main body of the message and attached to the e-mail) to: traduccion.online@uah.es and aula.traduccion@uah.es . The abstract must be sent together with the registration sheet, which can be downloaded at:
http://www2.uah.es/traduccion.

The decision of the Scientific Committee will be send by December 10, 2010, together with information on registration procedure, accommodation and publication guidelines. Proposers whose papers are accepted will have to submit the whole paper text (both on CD and printed out) by 20 January 2011, otherwise they could not be included in the CD proceedings. Looking forward to seeing you in Alcalá!

Keynote Speakers:
Deadline for submission of proposals: 2010-11-30
Registration deadline:
Contact details: For more information, please contact Carmen Valero-Garcés, Director of the Master in Intercultural Communication, Public Service Interpreting and Translation and FITISPos Co-ordinator, University of Alcalá, http://www2.uah.es/traduccion; http://www.fitispos.com.es
Email: carmen.valero@uah.es

Event website: http://www2.uah.es/traduccion; http://www.fitispos.com.es