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IATIS Membership Committee
Remit The main tasks of the Membership Committee are: the efficient handling of new applications for membership, both individual and group the efficient handling of renewals of existing memberships the setting up of membership fees that are accessible to researchers all over the world the expansion of the membership base: individual, group, in under-represented countries, with associations in neighboring disciplines, etc. the creation of a list of scholars and institutions working in the fields of translation studies, intercultural studies (and other neighboring disciplines, such as comparative literature, anthropology, ethnography, etc.) in the members' countries the implementation of a program for expanding the membership base, including sending membership leaflets to conferences, advertising in scholarly journals, on discussion lists, mailing lists, etc. the assessment and enhancing of membership benefits, in consultation with the Executive Council. The Committee reports to the IATIS Treasurer and to the Executive Council.
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MAEVE OLOHAN, Chair of Membership Committee

University of Manchester
UK
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Maeve Olohan is Director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is author of Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies (Routledge 2004) and editor of Intercultural Faultlines. Research Models in Translation Studies 1: Textual and Cognitive Aspects (St. Jerome 2000). Her current research interests lie in the areas of scientific translation and corpus-based translation studies. Further details can be found on her University of Manchester webpage.

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ELENA DI GIOVANNI, Membership Committee Member

University of Macerata
Italy

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Elena Di Giovanni is a Lecturer in Translation at the University of Macerata, where she teaches specialized translation as well as audiovisual translation. She is a member of the teaching staff of the University of Bologna at Forlì (Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators), for an MA programme in Screen Translation. Her research areas include audiovisual translation (both dubbing and subtitling), translation for children and the role of language and translation in intercultural communication. She has published extensively on audiovisual translation and is the editor of Translation, Cultures and the Media, special issue of EJES (European Journal of English Studies, Routledge). She is working with Rosa Maria Bollettieri on an Italian anthology of culture-oriented translation studies (Oltre l'Occidente. Traduzione e Alterità Culturale) to be published in September 2008 by Bompiani.

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ŞEHNAZ TAHİR-GÜRÇAĞLAR, Membership Committee Member

Bogazici University
Turkey

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Tahir-Gürçağlar has a PhD in Translation Studies and has been teaching translation and interpreting at Bogazici University since 1996. She is also a conference interpreter. She translated a number of works in social sciences, finance and literature most of which are published in book form. She has published articles on translation and culture, translation history and interpreting in Turkish and international publications.

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KIM WALMACH, Membership Committee Member

Universidad of South Africa
South Africa

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Dr Kim Wallmach teaches translation and interpreting at the Department of Linguistics, University of South Africa and is joint director of the BA degree programme in court interpreting (established in 2000). She also works as a freelance project manager for simultaneous and consecutive interpreting and translation in the eleven official languages of South Africa. Her current research interests include interpreting/translation and nation-building, translation/ interpreting and ideology, interpreting in legal and health contexts and corpus-based interpreting studies. She holds an MA and PhD in translation from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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IATIS Membership Committee

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