August 2010: IATIS announces that the 15th issue of the IATIS Bulletin (May-August2010) is now available. [Access the Bulletin here]
August 2010: IATIS announces election to Executive Council. Nominations are now being sought for election candidates for the IATIS Executive Council. The deadline for nominations is 30th September 2010.
The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) is a world-wide forum designed to enable scholars from different regional and disciplinary backgrounds to debate issues relating to translation and other forms of intercultural communication.
Ongoing internationalization and networking, increasing population mobility, mass migration and rapidly developing communication technologies all involve crosscultural representation of one kind or another. Mediation is provided by translators and interpreters in some cases. In others, it takes a variety of less explicit forms and hence remains largely untheorized and under-researched.
Institutions and individual researchers across the world have been making questions of globalization and multiculturalism part of their scholarly agenda. Others continue to investigate more traditional issues of translation and cultural transmission. Translation studies is now an established discipline in many parts of the world. Intercultural studies is emerging as an area of study in its own right.
To date, no single scholarly association represents the interests of academics and researchers in these rapidly growing fields across the world. Existing organizations tend to be restricted in their aims and scope, whether to the professional development of translators and interpreters, to certain geographical areas, or to the narrower field of translation. At the same time, issues of translation and intercultural communication feature only occasionally in the conferences and publications of scholarly associations in such fields as anthropology, comparative literature, or pragmatics. Hence the need for a world-wide, broadly based association encompassing both translation and intercultural studies.
Remit
The main tasks of the Publications Committee are:
- defining and implementing a publications policy that enables IATIS to provide a forum for debate and to stimulate scholarly interaction and the exchange of knowledge
- supervising the publication of the IATIS yearbook, a full-length, refereed volume containing a thematically coherent collection of essays and overseen by an expert editor
- defining themes for individual volumes, appointing editors for these volumes and creating mechanisms to ensure overall quality control
- liaising with publishers and obtaining estimates of publishing costs
- exploring other publication possibilities and initiatives
- securing discounts from publishers for IATIS members.
The Committee reports to the IATIS Treasurer and to the Executive Council.
Composition
JEREMY MUNDAY Chair of the IATIS Publications Committee
General Editor of the IATIS Yearbooks
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
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Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests include applied translation theory, Spanish and Latin American literature in translation, descriptive translation studies, discourse analysis (particularly applied to the translation of literary and political writing) and the use of corpus-based tools. He is author of Introducing Translation Studies (Routledge, 3rd edition 2012), Style and Ideology in Translation (Routledge 2008), Evaluation in Translation (Routledge, 2012) and, with co-author Basil Hatim, of Translation: An advanced resource book (Routledge, 2004). He has edited or co-edited several volumes including Translation as Intervention (Continuum and IATIS, 2007) the special issue of The Translator on ideology and translation (vol. 13.2, November 2007, with Sonia Cunico), The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies (Routledge, 2009) and Corpus-Based Translation Studies (Continuum 2011, with Alet Kruger and Kim Wallmach). He is series editor of the Continuum Advances in Translation series and also translates from Spanish and French to English. Personal webpage: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20059/spanish_portuguese_and_latin_american_studies/person/998/
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ROSARIO MARTÍN, Secretary of the IATIS Publications Committee
Universidad de Salamanca Spain
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M. Rosario Martín Ruano teaches translation at the University of Salamanca, where she achieved her PhD. Her research interests include legal translation, translation theory, gender studies and post-colonial critique. She has published several books, anthologies and essays on these issues, including El (des)orden de los discursos: la traducción de lo políticamente correcto (Granada, Comares, 2003) and Últimas corrientes teóricas en los estudios de traducción y sus aplicaciones (coedited with Anne Barr and Jesús Torres, Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001). She is a practising translator.
ROMÁN ÁLVAREZ, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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Román Álvarez Rodríguez is Professor of English Philology at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and currently Dean of the Faculty of Philology. He has published widely in the field of literary criticism and translation studies. Worthy of mention in this latter field are the anthologies Translation/Power/Subversion (coedited with África Vidal, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 1996) and Cartografías de la traducción: del post-estructuralismo al multiculturalismo (Salamanca, Ediciones Almar, 2001). He is a practising translator.
DIRK DELABASTITA, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
University of Namur Belgium
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Dirk Delabastita (1960) is professor of English literature and literary theory at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur (Belgium). He wrote his PhD (1990) on Shakespeare’s wordplay in Hamlet and the problems of translating it (There’s a Double Tongue, published in 1993). He edited two further volumes on the translation of wordplay: Wordplay and Translation (1996, a special issue of The Translator) and Traductio. Essays on Punning and Translation (1997). Dirk Delabastita also co-authored a Dutch-language dictionary of literary terms (Lexicon van Literaire Termen, with Hendrik van Gorp and Rita Ghesquiere, 1998), which has been translated into French (Dictionnaire des termes littéraires, 2001). His other books include European Shakespeares (with Lieven D’hulst, 1993). He serves on the editorial board of The Translator, is one of the series editors of Approaches to Translation Studies (Rodopi) and belongs to the team of supervisors of CETRA.
ROY DILLEY, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
University of St Andrews Scotland, UK
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Roy Dilley teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, and specialises in the study of the social organisation and culture of the Haalpulaaren (Tukulor) in Senegal, West Africa. He has published widely in journals and edited collections on this topic over the last 20 years, and has recently completed a historical ethnography entitled Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices among Haalpulaaren, Senegal: Between Mosque and Termite Mound, in the International African Institute Library Series, London 2004. His earlier work includes Senegal in the Clio Press World Bibliographical Series, Oxford, 1994 (with J. S. Eades). He also has research interests in anthropological theory and cultural economics, and has edited two thematic collections of essays, entitled Contesting Markets: Analyses of Ideology, Discourse and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1992), and The Problem of Context (Berghahn Press, Oxford 1999). This 1999 publication deals with how interpretative anthropologists have approached the problem of context in their analyses, and attempts to uncover the assumptions that lie behind the use of this key concept in anthropology, linguistics and other related disciplines.
JULIANE HOUSE, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
University of Hamburg Germany
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Juliane House was born in Berlin, Germany. She studied English, Spanish and International Law at Heidelberg university , where she graduated with a degree in translation (English, Spanish, German) and international law in 1966. She taught German as a second language to international students at Heidelberg university, worked as a translator, interpreter and market researcher for an multinational firm in Frankfurt before emigrating to Canada in 1968. After working in a Law Library at York University in Toronto, she continued her studies in General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Toronto. In her M.A. thesis (1971) she discussed "Theoretical Aspects of Translation", and in her Ph.D. (1976) she set up a "Model for Translation Quality Assessment". Following her remigration to Germany, she worked at the University of Bochum writing a pedagogical and an interactional grammar of English, as well as conducting a number of contrastive English-German pragmatic analyses. Since 1980 she holds the position of professor of applied linguistics at the University of Hamburg .She has published numerous articles and books in the fields of contrastive pragmatics, translation theory, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, interlanguage studies and, most recently, English as a lingua franca. She is a member of the editorial board of The Translator and Applied Linguistics, of the advisory board of Target, and a founding member of the German Society of Translation Studies and its Yearbooks of Translation and Interpreting. She is also a member of the German Science Foundation's research centre on multilingualism, where she directs a project on "Covert Translation" which investigates the influence of English as a lingua franca on discourse norms in other languages via processes of multilingual text production. In 1998 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the university of Jyväskylä, Finland in recognition of her work in translation theory and cross-cultural discourse analysis.
Séverine Hubscher-Davidson, IATIS Executive Council Member
Aston University, Birmingham UK
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Séverine Hubscher-Davidson is a lecturer in Translation Studies at Aston University, England, where she teaches translation and interpreting theory and practice. She received her PhD from the University of Bath. Her research interests include translators’ personalities, the translation process and translation pedagogy. She has organized short courses for professional translators and interpreters, including UK government linguists. Recent publications include 'A Reflection on Action Research Processes in Translator Training', in The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (2008), ‘Personal Diversity and Diverse Personalities in Translation: A Study of Individual Differences’, in Perspectives (2009) and ‘A Discussion of Ethnographic Research Methods and Their Relevance for Translation Process Research', in Across Languages and Cultures (2011). Séverine is co-editor (with John Kearns) of the IATIS Bulletin and a practising translator.
ALET KRUGER, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
University of South Africa, Pretoria South Africa
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As Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Linguistics at the University of South Africa (Unisa), Alet Kruger has taught translation students in the postgraduate Diploma in Translation and the Honours in Translation Studies for 20 odd years and has recently become involved in the BA in Court Interpreting at undergraduate level as well. She also supervises masters and doctoral students in Translation Studies at Unisa. Her doctoral studies on lexical cohesion and register variation in translation paved the way for her current interest in corpus-based translation research. She is currently editing the proceedings of the Corpus-based Translation Studies (Research and Applications) conference jointly hosted by Unisa and UMIST in Pretoria in July 2003, to be published in a special issue of Language Matters, Vol. 34 (2004), as well as in a book in 2005. She serves on the editorial boards of Babel (FIT’s journal), Hermeneus, the South African Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and the John Benjamins Translation Library series. She is responsible for updating the SA Bibliography on Translation, Interpreting, Lexicography and Terminology for the SA Translators’ Institute, which contains more than 1500 entries. She was appointed in 2003 as consultant to the South African Bible Society which is involved in a new translation of the Bible into Afrikaans. She is also a practising translator and is currently working on the translation of a selection of Zakes Mda’s plays into Afrikaans.
CAROL MAIER, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
Kent State University, Ohio USA
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Carol Maier received her Ph.D. from Rutgers-the State University and is professor of Spanish at Kent State University, where she is affiliated with the Institute for Applied Linguistics and serves as graduate coordinator for the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies. Her research interests include translation theory, practice, and pedagogy, and her publications include Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts (1995), which she co-edited with Anuradha Dingwaney and a special issue about evaluation that she guest-edited for The Translator (2002). She has published translations of work by Octavio Armand, Rosa Chacel, Severo Sarduy, and María Zambrano, among others.
ÁFRICA VIDAL, Member of the IATIS Publications Committee
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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África Vidal Claramonte is Professor of Translation at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her research interests include translation theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism and gender studies. She has published a number of books, anthologies and essays on these issues, including Traducción, manipulación, desconstrucción (Salamanca, Ediciones Colegio de España, 1995), El futuro de la traducción (València, Alfons el Magnànim, 1998) Translation/Power/Subversion (coedited with Román Álvarez, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 1996). She is a practising translator specialized in the field of contemporary art.
The governing body of IATIS is an Executive Council comprising:
- the President
- the Two Vice-Presidents
- the Secretary/Treasurer
- the Chair of the Executive Council
- the Executive Council members.
JULIANE HOUSE, IATIS President
Hamburg University, Germany
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Juliane House received her first degree in English, Spanish, Translation and International Law from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and her BEd, MA and PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the University of Toronto,Canada. She also received a Distinguished Scholar Award for Language Learning from the University of Ann Arbor, USA and an honorary doctorate from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Hamburg University and currently head of the Applied Linguistics programmes at the Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece. She is also a senior member of the German Science Foundation’s Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg, where she has directed several projects on translation and interpreting. Juliane’s research interests include translation theory and practice, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness theory, English as a lingua franca, intercultural communication and global business communication. Her publications include A Model for Translation Quality Assessment, Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited, Interlingual and Intercultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Misunderstanding in Social Life, Multilingual Communication, Translational Action and Intercultural Communication and Translation.
"As President of IATIS, I want to ensure that IATIS continues to act as a truly international organization that represents all its members and the discipline at large. One of my priorities will be to maintain the spirit of solidarity that has made IATIS such an energetic and effective association. IATIS should continue to be committed to narrowing the divide between members from different parts of the world through policies of differential membership fees, strategic placing of conference venues, ensuring the world-wide availability of both printed and on-line versions of our yearbooks and extending memberships across all countries and regions. And we should initiate other measures to alleviate difficulties in accessing mainstream research results. These might include organizing workshops and symposia in areas of the world where such events are not normally held."
MONA BAKER, IATIS Co-Vicepresident
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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Mona Baker is Professor of Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. She is author of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation(1992; second edition 2011) and Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account(2006), Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (1998, 2001; second edition, co-edited with Gabriela Saldanha, 2009); Critical Concepts: Translation Studies (2009); and Critical Readings in Translation Studies (2010). She is founding Editor of The Translator (1995- ), Editorial Director of St. Jerome Publishing, Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Translation Research and Instruction Program of Binghamton University, USA, Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies of Dublin City University, Ireland, and Guest Professor at Jiatong University, China.
"As a founding member of IATIS, I have always envisaged the Association as a meeting place for researchers of different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds who wish to promote the study of all aspects of translation and interpreting worldwide. Most importantly, IATIS has a special responsibility, as the only international association in the field, to stimulate research and support colleagues in areas of the world that lack access to intellectual resources, either because they have been ravaged by war or because of a lack of investment in education. Capacity building in such areas must be a priority for the Association."
ŞEBNEM SUSAM-SARAEVA, IATIS Co-Vicepresident
University of Edinburgh , United Kingdom
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Şebnem Susam-Saraeva is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies and Director of the Translation Studies Graduate Programme, University of Edinburgh, UK. She previously worked in Finland and Turkey as a researcher, lecturer and freelance translator/interpreter. She is the author of Theories on the Move: Translation’s Role in the Travels of Literary Theories (2006) and guest-editor of Translation and Music (2008). Her research interests have included descriptive translation studies, gender and translation, retranslations, literary and cultural theories, and research methodology in translation studies. She is currently working on translation and music, translation and cyberactivism, and non-professionals translating/interpreting. Further information on her work is available on her University of Edinburgh webpage.
"Since 2000, I have probed into the potential of a ‘multilingual and international translation studies’ in my own research and am therefore particularly enthusiastic about the positive developments in our discipline which took place within the last decade. IATIS has definitely been one of these developments and I am keen to contribute to its growth. During my term as Vice President I would like to aim at increasing the visibility of IATIS as a worldwide forum for scholars in translation and intercultural studies and at ensuring that there is greater participation from scholars outside of Europe and North America."
THEO HERMANS, Chair of IATIS Executive Council
University College London, United Kingdom
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Theo Hermans obtained his first degree at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and went on to the MA in Literary Translation at Essex and a PhD in Comparative Literature at Warwick. Apart from publications in Dutch and some poetry translations he edited The Manipulation of Literature (1985), TheFlemish Movement (1992), Crosscultural Transgressions (2002) and Translating Others (2006). His monographs include The Structure of Modernist Poetry (1982), Translation in Systems (1999) and The Conference of the Tongues (2007). His main research interests concern theories and histories of translation.
"IATIS offers a global platform for scholarship, research and the exchange of ideas about translation and intercultural studies. We should celebrate diversity across geographical areas and cultural traditions while maintaining scholarly standards. IATIS can create a supportive environment for younger and experienced researchers alike, wherever they are. No other translation studies organization has this global reach, and that is what we should build on and strengthen."
LUIS PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, IATIS Treasurer
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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Luis Pérez-González is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester. He has published in the fields of audiovisual translation, systemic functional linguistics and forensic linguistics and supervises doctoral research in audiovisual translation, multimodal communication and interpreting studies. He is Features Editor of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (St Jerome). A former freelance translator for international organizations, Luis has recently acted as a consultant for the European Agency for Reconstruction in the development of translation and interpreter training programmes and translation certification mechanisms in Eastern Europe and for the European Commission on the impact of translation on multilingual communities.
"In my capacity as IATIS Webmaster during 2005-2010, I have had the opportunity to work closely with former and current Executive Council colleagues on a number of fronts. During this period, I have played a key role in the distribution and archiving of IATIS online publications, acted as facilitator of new initiatives and provided the technical means to ensure that IATIS members are aware of and able to fully enjoy their membership benefits. As the newly elected IATIS treasurer, I will seek to contribute to new IATIS developments. With its growing membership base across the globe, IATIS is uniquely placed to incorporate new voices to the academic debate in our disciplines and promote the visibility of translation and intercultural studies in the international scholarly arena."
MAEVE OLOHAN, IATIS Secretary and Membership Committee Chair
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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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.
DOROTHY KENNY, Conference Committee Chair
Dublin City University
Ireland
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Dorothy Kenny is Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland, and a founding member of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies at DCU. She has a BA from DCU and an MSc and PhD from UMIST in Manchester. She is author of Lexis and Creativity: A corpus-based study (St. Jerome, 2001) and co-editor of Unity in Diversity: Current Trends in Translation Studies (St. Jerome, 1998) and Across Boundaries: International Perspectives on Translation Studies (CSP, 2007). Her research interests include corpus-based translation studies, corpus linguistics, and computer-aided translation.
JEREMY MUNDAY, Publications Committee Chair
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
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Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests include applied translation theory, Spanish and Latin American literature in translation, descriptive translation studies, discourse analysis (particularly applied to the translation of literary and political writing) and the use of corpus-based tools. He is author of Introducing Translation Studies (Routledge, 3rd edition 2012), Style and Ideology in Translation (Routledge 2008), Evaluation in Translation (Routledge, 2012) and, with co-author Basil Hatim, of Translation: An advanced resource book(Routledge, 2004). He has edited or co-edited several volumes including Translation as Intervention (Continuum and IATIS, 2007) the special issue of The Translator on ideology and translation (vol. 13.2, November 2007, with Sonia Cunico), The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies (Routledge, 2009) and Corpus-Based Translation Studies(Continuum 2011, with Alet Kruger and Kim Wallmach). He is series editor of the Continuum Advances in Translation series and also translates from Spanish and French to English.
Personal webpage:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20059/spanish_portuguese_and_latin_american_studies/person/998/
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SHARON O'BRIEN, Nominations Committee Chair
Dublin City University
Ireland
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Sharon O'Brien is a lecturer in translation and language technology in SALIS, Dublin City University. Her teaching centres around practical translation (French/German to English), Research Methods, Translation Theory and Localisation. Her research interests include the measurement of cognitive effort in translation and post-editing of machine translation output via eye tracking and keyboard logging, translator interaction with technology, process-related research and research methods, controlled authoring of content etc. She is affiliated with the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation.
PAUL F. BANDIA, IATIS Executive Council Member
Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Canada
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Paul F. Bandia is Professor of Translation and Francophone Studies in the Department of French at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is also an Associate at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. His interests lie in postcolonial theory, sociolinguistics, ethnography, cultural theory and history. He has published widely in the fields of translation studies and postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the author of Translation as Reparation: Writing and Translation in Postcolonial Africa (2008), co-editor of Charting the Future of Translation History (2006), and co-editor of Agents of Translation (2009).
"I would like to enhance the presence of IATIS in Canada and North America through workshops and conferences, as well as contribute to the Association’s international profile by drawing attention to its openness and inclusiveness of cultures."
SANJIB BHATTACHARYA, IATIS Executive Council Member
El Dorado Academy, India
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Professor Sanjib Bhattacharya started his career as a Foreign Language Professor and Translator and has worked for many well known academic organizations, a corporate, management institute and for Christian missionary educational organizations. He is a corporate member of the American Translators’ Association, a Steering Committee Member of the National Writers’ Union, an Academic Member of the Indian Translators’ Association, a Senior Member of the Indo-Japanese Association, and a Founder Member of the Indo-Japanese Language Studies Society. He has been granted various international and national awards in the field of Education and Translation. The most recent award was the Mother Teresa Excellency Award. He is currently working as CEO cum Principal of El Dorado Academy.
"I wish to convince writers, translators, scholars and educationalists in India and other Asian countries of the benefit of joining IATIS. Through IATIS, I am eager to engage with scholars from all parts of the world and to develop networks of cultural and academic communication by which people belonging to different nationalities, racial and ethnic groups can come closer to each other and work together to build a new forum of International peace and cultural fusion."
MARTHA P.Y. CHEUNG, IATIS Executive Council Member
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR
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Martha P.Y. Cheung is Chair Professor in Translation and Director of the Centre for Translation of Hong Kong Baptist University. Her most recent publications are An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation, Volume 1: From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project (2006) and a Special Issue of The Translator entitled Chinese Discourses on Translation (2009). She is now preparing Volume 2 of the Anthology. Her main research interests include discourse and metadiscourse of translation, the relation between translation theory and the practice of translation, and the changing meanings of the concept of “translation” in different translation traditions.
"Since I am new to the Council, I think that the best way for me to contribute would be to be a good team-player by making sure that I take an active part in the activities organized by IATIS, by serving on various committees when asked to, and by promoting IATIS in Hong Kong and in greater China."
FARZANEH FARAHZAD, IATIS Executive Council Member
Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran
Iran
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Farzaneh Farahzad is Professor of Translation Studies at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Iranian Translation Studies Journal, Chair of the Department of Translation Studies at the Linguistics Society of Iran (LSI), author of several Persian textbooks for translator training programmes in Iran, and of many articles in Persian and English on translator training, translation assessment, translation criticism and translation of Persian classics.
"IATIS is enhancing communication and collaboration among translation scholars and researchers in different parts of the world. As an Iranian member of the executive council, I hope to be able to create a link between Iranian translation researchers and IATIS and to introduce and promote what is being done in this area in Iran."
Séverine Hubscher-Davidson, IATIS Executive Council Member
Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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Séverine Hubscher-Davidson is a lecturer in Translation Studies at Aston University, England, where she teaches translation and interpreting theory and practice. She received her PhD from the University of Bath. Her research interests include translators’ personalities, the translation process and translation pedagogy. She has organized short courses for professional translators and interpreters, including UK government linguists. Recent publications include 'A Reflection on Action Research Processes in Translator Training', in The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (2008), ‘Personal Diversity and Diverse Personalities in Translation: A Study of Individual Differences’, in Perspectives (2009) and ‘A Discussion of Ethnographic Research Methods and Their Relevance for Translation Process Research', in Across Languages and Cultures (2011). Séverine is co-editor (with John Kearns) of the IATIS Bulletin and a practising translator.
"I see being a member of the IATIS Council as a way of actively contributing to representing the interests of translating and interpreting scholars world-wide. IATIS aims to encourage scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to explore areas of mutual concern, and I am particularly interested in giving young researchers a voice, and stimulating interaction between experienced translation scholars and those entering this fascinating and multifaceted field of study. As a council member, I hope to strengthen existing activities in this area and to discuss the introduction of new ones, thus contributing new perspectives, ideas and enthusiasm."
JOHN MILTON, IATIS Executive Council Member
University of São Paulo, Brazil
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John Milton is Associate Professor of English Literature and Translation Studies at the Universidade de São Paulo. He has published widely on the history and sociology of translation, especially in Brazil, and has recently been working in the area of Adaptation Studies. Among his publications are: O Poder da Tradução (The Power of Translation), Ars Poética (1993; reissued as Tradução: Teoria e Prática (Translation: Theory and Practice, 1998); O Clube do Livro e a Tradução (The Clube do Livro and Translation, 2002); and Agents of Translation (co-edited with Paul Bandia, 2009).
"IATIS aims to bring the world of translation studies scholars nearer, and I believe we should do all we can to attract members from all corners of the world, facilitate access to news and ideas, and make publications readily available to as many scholars as possible."
HALA SHARKAS, IATIS Executive Council Member
United Arab Emirates University
UAE
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Hala Sharkas obtained a BA in English Language and Literature from Aleppo University in 1995. She obtained an MA in 2001 and a PhD in 2005 (both in translation) from Portsmouth University, UK.Throughout her career, she has worked as a freelance translator and at different private companies and governmental institutions. She has also taught translation at Damascus University and at the Higher Institute of Translation and Interpretation in Damascus, Syria. In August 2008, she joined the Department of Translation Studies at the UAE University as an assistant professor. Her research interests include translation quality assessment, specialized translation and translation pedagogy.
"I view IATIS as a bridge that brings together scholars and translators from around the world to exchange ideas on the theory, practice and teaching of translation and interpreting as intercultural acts of communication as well as professions that require knowledge and training in many interdisciplinary areas. I will promote the activities of IATIS in the Arab region and will endeavour to organize workshops in collaboration with local and regional universities to bring together researchers to discuss issues of mutual interest. I will also promote translation-related events that take place in the region through the IATIS channels sothat they would reach the widest audience possible."
ŞEHNAZ TAHİR-GÜRÇAĞLAR, IATIS Executive Council 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.
CHARLES TIAYON, IATIS Executive Council Member
University of Buea, Cameroon
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Charles Tiayon is a Senior Lecturer of Translation and Terminology at the University of Buea, Cameroon, where he has also been serving as Deputy Director of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI) since 2005. His research interests and publications cover a wide range of areas. These include: corpus translation studies, corpus-based terminology and lexicography, translation sociology, translation curriculum and pedagogy, and interculturality, with special focus on authentic data from Africa. He also has many years of experience in second/foreign language teaching. Charles is a founding member of the Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters of Cameroon (APTIC).
"I wish to contribute to better awareness of IATIS among translators and interpreters as well as translator/interpreter training institutions in Africa. I also wish to contribute to better awareness of the role of translation and intercultural communication in fostering mutual understanding and development across the world and Africa in particular. Through IATIS, I hope to contribute to the growth of translation and intercultural studies in Africa."
REBECCA TIPTON, IATIS Executive Council Member
University of Salford
United Kingdom
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Rebecca Tipton lectures in the theory and practice of translation and interpreting at the University of Salford. Rebecca has worked as a freelance interpreter and translator since 1998 and, prior to joining the University of Salford, trained public service interpreters in the North West of England, specifically for local government, police and court services. Rebecca has published in the field of Interpreting Studies in public service and conference interpreting; her most recent publication appeared in the special issue of the journal Interpreter and Translator Trainer (ITT) on Ethics and the Curriculum published by St Jerome in 2011.
"The IATIS conferences that I have had the privilege to attend to date (Cape Town and Melbourne) have demonstrated a clarity of vision and quality of scholarship that I am keen to actively promote in my capacity as Council Member. As a scholar working at the interface of several disciplines I am particularly interested in contributing to the Association’s role of bringing scholars together from different disciplines to explore areas of mutual interest. I also hope to contribute to the training initiatives undertaken by the Association."
MARIJA TODOROVA, IATIS Executive Council Member
University American College, Skopje
Macedonia
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Maria Todorova has worked as a translator of English and Macedonian since 1998 for many national and international organizations and participated in the translation of the Acquis Communautaire in Macedonia. She was awarded the National Translation Prize and the Winter Book Fair Translation Award for her translations of children’s literature. One of her key publications is “Children’s Literature and Cultural Diversity: A Study of Contemporary Macedonian Literature for Children. She teaches Introduction to Translation and Interpreting, Translation Theory and Global Understanding at the School of Foreign Languages, University American College, Skopje.
"I seek to strengthen the position of translation and intercultural studies in Eastern Europe, especially in the Western Balkans and Macedonia. In Macedonia there are hardly any academic positions in Translation Studies, almost no academic journals concerned with translation, and conference and workshop activity is rather limited. I will work to disseminate information about IATIS in Eastern Europe and to improve cooperation at both the regional and international levels. I will also seek to strengthen the role of IATIS in researching intercultural communication."
JENNY WILLIAMS, IATIS Executive Council Member
Dublin City University
Ireland
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Professor Jenny Williams has been active in Translation Studies for over 20 years as a teacher, researcher and practitioner. She co-authored The Map. A Beginner’s Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies with Andrew Chesterman (2002), published an anthology of poetry in translation (Sabine Lange. The Fishermen Sleep, 2005), and is currently writing a book on Translation Theory. Her other main research interest is the German writer Hans Fallada; her 1998 Fallada biography, More Lives Than One, appeared in German in 2002 (Mehr Leben als Eins) and she is currently updating it for a new edition by Penguin.
"I am delighted to have been nominated to the Council of IATIS, which has made such an important contribution to the internationalization and enlargement of our discipline by providing a global forum for the discussion of intercultural and translation issues. As a Council member I hope to take a more active part in such discussions and to bring my own experience and insights, from a wide range of teaching and research activities as well as from management, policymaking and strategic planning to the organization. Above all, I relish the opportunity to engage in Translation Studies activities at a global level."
LINCOLN FERNANDES, Editor of IATIS Bulletin
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Brazil
Lincoln P. Fernandes is a lecturer in Translation Studies at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil and affiliated with two of its postgraduate programmes; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução(PPGET) and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês (PPGI). He has recently joined the Editorial Team of Cadernos de Tradução and his main research areas of interest are Corpus-based Translation Studies; Translation of Children’s Literature; Translator Education; and Translation and Language Teaching. He is also a freelance translator in the technical areas of Information Technology, Knowledge Engineering and Linguistics.
In his message to the delegates at the Seoul Conference marking the launch of IATIS, Director-General Koïchiro MATSUURA wished us a long and fruitful existence working in collaboration with UNESCO and said that UNESCO looks to our association "for active support and cooperation in terms of thought, the exchange of ideas and research".
IATIS is delighted to announce the publication of Translation: Theory and Practice in Dialogue, the fourth volume in the IATIS-Continuum Series on Translation Studies (IATIS Yearbook 2009). This collection edited by Antoinette Fawcett, Karla L. Guadarrama García and Rebecca Hyde Parker includes contributions by Jean BOASE-BEIER, Elizabeth THORNTON, Lina FISHER, Christine CALFOGLOU, Clive SCOTT, Agnieszka PANTUCHOWICZ, Paulina Gąsior, Szu-Wen CINDY KUNG, Hiroko FURUKAWA, Kirsten MALMKJÆR.
IATIS Yearbooks are available to members free of charge. An electronic version is also available at the IATIS Intranet.
Dear IATIS members, colleagues and friends!
As the newly elected President of IATIS I take pleasure in extending a warm welcome to all of you, and I want to thank you for your support. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our outgoing President Annie Brisset for her pioneering work in representing our young organization in various important and effective ways, as well as other members of the outgoing Executive Council for their efforts in establishing and orienting the association in its early years.
