IATIS Nominations Committee

Remit

The main task of the IATIS Nominations Committee is to facilitate the process of selecting or electing suitable candidates for various posts in the organization in accordance with the principles of the IATIS constitution.

Specifically, the Nominations committee will:

Set guidelines for the election or selection procedure
Develop a set of conditions to be fulfilled by candidates
Set the election/selection schedule
Receive the nomination of candidates for election at various positions in the IATIS structures
Examine the candidatures and propose the relevant names for election/selection
Oversee the election/selection of such candidates either electronically or otherwise
Ensure fairness, transparency and non discrimination in the election/selection process

The Committee reports to the IATIS Treasurer and to the Executive Council.

Composition

	Dominique Ngoy Mwepu, Chair of Nominations Committee University of Cape Town South Africa []
	Dominique Ngoy Mwepu was born in Kamina (DR Congo). He obtained a PhD from the University of Cape Town for a thesis entitled: ‘Translation and interpreting as instruments of language planning in South Africa: focus on court interpreting.’ He is currently conducting research on comparative interpreting as part of his AW Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship project in the School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town (UCT). He is co-author with D. Young et al. (2005) of Understanding concepts in mathematics and science. A multilingual teaching resource book. Cape Town: MaskewMiller Longman He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association (SAALA) and book review editor of the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Journal. He is also a funding member of the Multilingualism Action Group, an advocacy group focusing on the promotion of marginalized language communities and harmonious coexistence of all the language groups in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. :::Back to Top:::
	ELżBIETA TABAKOWSKA, Nominations Committee Member Jagielloniaan University Poland []
	Elżbieta Joanna Muskat-Tabakowska holds an MA in English Studies awarded by the Institute of English, Jagiellonian University (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Linguistics, also from Jagiellonian University. She is currently a full professor in the Institute of English at Jagiellonian University and has served as junior assistant, assistant, assistant lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and associate professor. She teaches various courses in cognitive linguistics with particular emphasis on its application in the field of translation studies. Indeed, in her capacity as visiting professor she has taught such courses throughout Europe at universities such as University of Helsinki, University of Copenhagen, University of Aarhus, The Aarhus School of Business, Copenhagen Finnish Academy of Sciences, University of Kiel, Warwick University, University of Göttingen and Universität Gesamthochschule in Duisburg, Klementa Ochridskij University in Sofia, Jozsef Attila Univeristy (Szeged), University of Warsaw, Pedagogical Academy in Kraków. :::Back to Top:::
	KUMIKO TORIKAI, Nominations Committee Member Rikkyo University, Tokyo Japan []
	Kumiko Torikai is Professor of Interpreting/Translation Studies at Rikkyo University Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, of which she was the founding dean. She is also visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo. She is author of Tsuyakusha toh Sengo Nichibei Gaikoh (Misuzu-shobo, 2007; Japanese publication of her PhD thesis: "Diplomatic Interpreters in Post-WWII Japan: Voices of the Invisible Presence in Foreign Relations") and Rekisih wo Kaeta Goyaku (Mistranslation that Changed History, Shincho-sha, 2004). Her articles include ”The Challenge of Language and Communication in Twenty-first Century Japan” (Japanese Studies, Vol.２５, No.3, December 2005, Routledge) and “Interpreter Training and Foreign Language Teaching in Japan” (Tsuyaku Riron Kenkyuu (Interpreting Studies), Vol.18:AILA Tokyo Special Issue,1999). She is President of the Japan Association for Interpretation Studies (JAIS), Executive Council member of Japan Society for Intercultural Studies and Japan Society for Translators, as well as President of the Japan Congress/Convention Bureau. :::Back to Top:::
	PATRICIA WILLSON, Nominations Committee Member Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas Buenos Aires, Argentina []
	Patricia Willson was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958. From 1999 until 2003 she was a Research Fellow of Fundación Antorchas. Her main research field is literary translation in Argentina (XXth century) and her doctoral research has focused on translation during the publishing boom in Argentina in the 1940s and the 1950s. She is currently a Professor of Literary Translation (French-Spanish) and Theory of Translation at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández", Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is also a Lecturer in XXth Century Argentine Literature at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Patricia Willson has translated into Spanish, among other authors, Ferdinand de Saussure, Paul Ricoeur, Luce Irigaray, Slavoj Zizek, and is currently translating Roland Barthes. :::Back to Top:::