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Saturday, 06 October 2012 16:34
12th Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference
Written by Magdalena Dombek
Registration is now open for the twelfth annual Portsmouth translation conference. Theme: 'Those who can, teach: Translation, Interpreting and Training' Date: Saturday 10 November 2012Venue: Park Building, University of Portsmouth Keynote speakers: Dorothy Kelly (University of Granada) Daniel Toudic (University of Rennes 2) These are challenging times for translator and interpreter training. The past 40 years have seen big changes in translator training with a shift towards greater professionalization, an explosion in the number of courses, and also a shift towards lifelong learning and continuing professional development. Translator training has also moved, in part, out of the seminar room into…
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7th EST CONGRESS – GERMERSHEIM 2013 29 – 31 August 2013 Translation Studies: Centres and Peripheries Call for Papers: Panel 8: Interpreting and conflict mediation ( Aline Remael, Mary Carroll) The session is intended as an interdisciplinary discourse on interpreting and (conflict) mediation, an area in which a clear definition of roles and responsibilities of mediators and interpreters is essential. With national legislation in place in many countries as well as the EU actively promoting various forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) including Mediation (see e.g. EU Mediation Directive of 2008), the number of cross-border mediations involving more than one…
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Saturday, 22 September 2012 15:53
CROSSLING symposium: Language Contacts at the Crossroads of Disciplines
Written by Magdalena Dombek
Call for Papers CROSSLING Symposium: Language Contacts at the Crossroads of Disciplines University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, February 28–March 1, 2013 The goal of this symposium is to bring together scholars working on language contact, cross-linguistic influence or contact-induced change and variation within different disciplines. The symposium aims to promote cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological discussion in the study of language contact and strives for genuine discussion and cross-pollination between various disciplines and research traditions, their theories, methods, and data, and between researchers of different languages. We welcome contributions focusing on language contact, SLA, translation studies and other possible areas of…
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:04
Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference in Translation Studies - Glendon College, York University
Written by Magdalena Dombek
Call for Papers "Beyond Mediation? Exploring Translation and Interpretation in the Current Globalized Landscape" The graduate students of the School of Translation at Glendon College, York University, are pleased to announce the fourth annual graduate student conference in Translation Studies, to be held at Glendon College, Toronto on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Website: http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/transconference2013
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7th EST CONGRESS, 29 to the 31 August 2013, University of Mainz in Germersheim, Germany Panel organizers: Claudio Fantinuoli and Federico Zanettin While corpus-based research critically depends on the availability of suitable tools and resources, there is still a lack of user-friendly tools allowing researchers in the soft sciences to create and analyze corpora according to the standards of the discipline. This panel aims to provide a framework for discussing corpus data, tools and approaches which may allow translation scholars to collaborate among them and with the NLP community, in order to improve the quality of resources and make them…
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Saturday, 08 September 2012 08:46
The First National Conference on Intedisciplinary Translation Studies
Written by Mona Baker
30-31 January 2013 Imam Reza International University of Mashhad, Iran
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Friday, 07 September 2012 15:53
3rd International Translation Studies Conference "Translation: New Destinations"
Written by Magdalena Dombek
3rd International Translation Studies Conference « Translation: New Destinations » Istanbul, 08-10 May 2013 Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Science and Letters Department of French Translation and Interpreting Call for Papers: On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Department of French Translation and Interpreting is organizing an international translation studies conference in order to provide a framework for discussing new destinations in translation studies. Translation, an impetus for human evolution, is one of the most important subject matters in academic research in line with innovations of our era. Going beyond imposing limits, translation studies is enriched by…
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12th Portsmouth Translation Conference Keynote speakers: Prof. Dorothy Kelly (University of Granada) Daniel Toudic (University Rennes II) Conference Theme: ‘Those Who Can, Teach’: Translation, Interpreting and TrainingDate: 10 November 2012 Place: Park Building, University of Portsmouth These are challenging times for translator and interpreter training. The past 40 years have seen big changes in translator training with a shift towards greater professionalization, an explosion in the number of courses, and also a shift towards lifelong learning and continuing professional development. Translator training has also moved, in part, out of the seminar room into the virtual teaching environment. The industry and…
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Thursday, 02 August 2012 21:15
The Role of Translation in the Dialogue of Civilizations, An-Najah University, Palestine
Written by Mona Baker
The Faculty of Arts at An-Najah National University announces its first call for papers for its fifth international conference on “The Role of Translation in the Dialogue of Civilizations,” which will take place at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, Sunday and Monday, September 16th and 17th, 2012. Researchers and translators from all over the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts.
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Nordic Translation Conference 2013 Call for Papers The second Nordic Translation Conference will take place on 4, 5, and 6 April 2013 at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. This quinquennial event is solely dedicated to the particular challenges and pleasures of translating between and among the Nordic countries, which are often closely related culturally, if not always linguistically. It is open to academics, students, translators, publishers, and others who work with the Nordic languages. The first such conference took place in London at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in 2008 and it resulted in the…
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