Jointly organized by China Association of Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC) and Center for Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies of Tsinghua University, and sponsored by Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, the First Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Inter-Cultural Studies will be held by the side of the West Lake in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province on November 18-20, 2011.

The topics for the forum are as follows:  

1. Regional cooperation in translation/interpretation and intercultural studies;
2. Regional interdisciplinary translation studies; 
3. The teaching of translation/ interpretation in Asian-Pacific areas;
4. The current trend in translation/interpretation and intercultural studies;
5. Translation/interpretation and cross-cultural communication;
6. Translation, writing, critics and publishing patronage;
7. Translation as educaiton in universities;

Keynote speakers for the forum are translators, writers and scholars, e.g. Michael Heim, Hang Shaogong, Jeremy Munday, etc. The languages for the forum are English and Chinese. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept 20, 2011. Notification will be made on Sept 25, 2011. Please e-mail your abstracts or papers to yataifanyi@126.com. For more information, please get on www.tsinghua-translation.org.cn. The convener of the forum is Professor Luo Xuanmin from Tsinghua University, Beijing. The contact person is LI Lu.

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