We invite workshop papers exploring any of the following sub-themes or other related aspects:

•  Translation and the issue of multiculturalism and multilingualism
•  Maintaining, shaping, and challenging national/local cultural identity in translation
•  Government policies and their effects on translation products
•  Issues of acceptability of translations between culturally distant language
•  Translation of pop culture and its enculturation effects
•  Translation in cyber-world and its challenges to cultural identity

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Sebnem Susam-Sarajeva (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Dr. Caroll O'Sullivan (University of Portsmouth, UK)

• Dr. Rochayah Machali (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Papers will be presented in parallel sessions on each of these sub-themes. Papers accepted for the parallel sessions will be allocated 30 minutes in the program, which includes 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions/discussion.

Deadline for Abstracts

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 15, 2012. Authors of the accepted papers will be notified by September 28, 2012. An abstract of up to 300 words should be sent to iatis_indonesia@yahoo.com 

Publication plans

In addition, we plan to publish workshop proceedings with ISBN. If you would like your paper to be considered for inclusion in the workshop proceedings please write to Issy Yuliasri at issyuliasri@yahoo.com