• Panel 1: translating/interpreting for/in grassroots movements and ngos
  Chair: Şebnem Susam-Sarajeva, University of Edinburgh
  Call for papers available here.
   

• Panel 2: training for the market or educating for society?
  Chair: John Kearns, Dublin City University
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 3: beyond the post-conundrum: intercultural communication in an asymmetrical world
  Chair: Michael Chapman, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 4: translating children’s literature: intervention or imposition?
  Chair: Judith Inggs, Translation & Interpreting Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 5: investigating translation competence from an empirical-experimental perspective
  Chair: Fabio Alves, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 6: the global initiative for local computing
  Chair: Reinhard Schäler, University of Limerick
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 7: material practices of translation
  Chairs: Isabel Hofmeyr and Libby Meintjes, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 8: the bible and its translations: colonial encounters with the indigenous
  Chairs: Jaqueline du Toit and Jacobus A Naudé, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 9: translating attitudes and feelings: degrees of intervention
  Chair: Victòria Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 10: intervention in audiovisual/multimedia translation
  Chairs: Luise von Flotow (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Luis Pérez-González, (University of Manchester, UK)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 11: the intercultural workplace
  Chair: Aileen Pearson-Evans (Dublin City University, Ireland)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 12: cultural mediation in the japanese context
  Chairs Hiroko Cockerill (School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 13: beyond intervention: universals in translation processes
  Chair: Juliane House (University of Hamburg, Germany)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 14: ways of intervention – the question of censorship
  Chair: Elisabeth Gibbels (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 15: transforming higher education: the role of translation and interpreting
  Chair: Mbulungeni Madiba (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 16: when the source text intervenes.  linguistic innovation and its translation
  Chairs: Kathryn Woodham (University of Nottingham, UK) and Chantal Wright (University of East Anglia, UK)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 17: agents and agency of translation
  Chair: John Milton (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 18: community interpreting. research and applications
  Chairs: Mette Rudvin (University of University of Bologna, Italy), Helen Slatyer (Macquarie University, Australia) and Carmen Valero Garcés (University of Alcalá, Spain)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 19: interpreting the 'rights of others': translation, migration and globalisation
  Chairs: Jan Blommaert (Ghent University, Belgium) and Moira Inghilleri (Goldsmiths College,University of London, UK)
  Call for papers available here.

   

• Panel 20: sexualities in translation
  Chair: Christopher Larkosh (University of Connecticut, USA)
  Call for papers available here.

LAST  IATIS CONFERENCE
Cape Town 2006

In July 2006, IATIS held its 2nd Conference at The University of the Western Cape, in Cape Town (South Africa). The Theme of the conference was Intervention in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Encounters.

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To see the photographs taken during the event, click here.

Read the conference closing address available here.
 

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