Fun for All: II International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in
Video Games and Virtual Worlds: Searching for Best Practices

22nd and 23rd March 2012

Transmedia Catalonia Research Group
Centre for Accessibility and Ambient Intelligence in Catalonia
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Fun for All: II International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds to be held by the Transmedia Catalonia Research Group at the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on 22nd and 23rd March 2012.

Theme of the conference
In four decades the video game industry has become a worldwide phenomenon, generating millions in revenue every year. Video games are increasingly becoming more elaborate and sophisticated, with advanced graphics and intricate story lines, and developers and publishers need to reach the widest possible audience in order to maximise their return on investment. Translating games into other languages and designing games that can be
played for a wide spectrum of players, regardless of their (dis)ability, are two obvious ways to contribute to increasing the audience for the game industry.

However, to date, both industry and academia have paid little attention to the emerging fields of game localization and accessibility, as well as accessibility to virtual worlds, also known as metaverses, and the role
translation plays in them. Academic studies focusing on game localization and accessibility of games and virtual worlds are few and far between, despite the fact that further research in localization and accessibility is
beneficial to all. The industry can benefit by reaching the broadest possible audience, while the audience can benefit from having improved access to games and virtual worlds. A more systematic and interdisciplinary
approach bringing together academics from different disciplines with various research backgrounds and methodologies, such as translation studies, media studies, psychology, usability, engineering and computing, human rights, is required to promote further advances in these areas of study.

The successful I International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds, held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in December 2010, became a meeting point for academic and
professionals working in the game industry and the game localisation industry, as well as students interested in this field. The second edition of the conference, Fun for All: II International Conference on Translation
and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds, aims to continue fostering the interdisciplinary debate in these fields and contribute to the development of best practices.

Key note speakers
Heather M. Chandler, Media Sunshine, author of The Game Localization Handbook.

Title: The Importance of Game Localization in Capturing International Markets.

Thomas Westin, Stockholm University Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, DSV.

Title: Large Scale Game Accessibility.

Suggested topics
The II International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds will cover the following topics. Proposals about related topics are also welcome:

* Game localisation process
* Standardisation
* Quality issues
* Development and use of specialised tools
* Cultural adaptation and humour in games
* Dubbing and subtitling for game
* Localization of online, mobile phone, social games
* Fan translations
* Reception studies
* Game localisation and accessibility best practices
* Accessibility to video games and virtual worlds
* Game audio design
* Design for all
* Role of translation in virtual worlds
* Accessible educational games.

Abstract proposals and deadlines
Abstract proposals (max. 300 words) should be sent by 20th November 2011 to:
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Date of notification regarding acceptance of abstracts: 20th December 2011.
The abstracts should attached as a WORD document, with the format: authorname.doc
Please indicate ABSTRACT in the subject line in your e-mail.

Conference Language
The language of the conference will be English.

Information and Contact Details
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More information will be available soon from the conference website
http://jornades.uab.cat/videogamesaccess/

Conference Fee and Registration
Fees include attendance to the conference, materials, coffee breaks, lunches and the conference dinner.
Early-bird registration (before 19th February 2011): 180 Euro.
After 20th February 2012: 200 Euro.
Contributors are invited to register by 19th February 2012.
Early-bird registration students from UAB: 50 Euro
UAB Student registration after 19th February 2010: 70 Euro.
Early-bird registration students from other universities and alumni of the AVT translation masters at UAB: 90 Euro
Student and alumni of the AVT translation masters at UAB registration after 19th February: 110 Euro

Organising Committee
Carme Mangiron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Anna Matamala, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Pilar Orero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jordi Carrabina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Scientific Committee
Miguel Bernal, University of Roehampton
David Camacho, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Heather Chandler, Media Sunshine Game Development Studio
Alberto Fernández, Universidad de Oviedo
Dimitris Grammenos, Institute of Computer Science (ICS) Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Enric Martí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Minako O'Hagan, Dublin City University
Lucía Pérez-Castilla, CEAPAT (Centro Estatal de Autonomía Personal y Ayudas Técnicas, National Centre for Personal Autonomy and Techincal Support)
Javier Torrente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Thomas Westin, Stockholm University

Seminario Internacional sobre Traducción y Accesibilidad Universal (SITAU)

Complicating the History of Western Translation

The Ancient Mediterranean in Perspective

Edited by Siobhán McElduff and Enrica Sciarrino

ISBN 978-1-905763-30-6, £25 (inc. postage and packing)

Published September 2011, 234 pages

https://www.stjerome.co.uk/books/b/151/

Dimitris Asimakoulas and Margaret Rogers (eds) (2011) Translation and Opposition. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781847694300. 321 pages £23.96

Book synopsis

Contemporary models in Translation Studies have relatively recently problematized various myths relating to translation activity, such as the view of translation as an impersonal, mechanical act of linguistic transfer or as an altruistic move of building bridges between as well as within cultures. This volume sees translation through the prism of linguistic/cultural hybridity and inter/intra-social agency, bringing together cultural and sociological perspectives. In a collection of diverse case studies, ranging from the translation of political texts to interpreting in concentration camps, the book explores issues of power struggle, ideology, censorship and identity construction. The contributors to the volume show how translators, interpreters and subtitlers as mediators put their specific professional and ethical competences to the test by treading the dividing lines between constellations of ‘in-groups’ and cultural or political ‘others’.

Table of contents:

How Ibsen Travels from Europe to China: Ibsenism from Archer, Shaw to Hu Shi

Zhao Wenjing 39

Rewriting, Culture Planning and Resistance in the Turkish Folk Tale

Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar 59

Where Have All the Tyrants Gone? Romanticist Persians for Royals, Athens 1889

Gonda Van Steen 77
Oppositional Effects: (Mis)Translating Empire in Modern Russian Literature

The Translator’s Opposition: Just One More Act of Reporting

The Translation of Sexually Explicit Language: Almudena Grandes’s Las edades de Lulú (1989) in English              José Santaemilia 265

Translation as a Threat to Fascism

Chris Rundle 295

Moncton (New Brunswick, Canada)
1, 2, 3 November 2012
Translation in Contexts of Official Multilingualism

Translation and interpretation activities in a context of official or institutional multilingualism (where are least two languages are official languages) are the reality of many of the world's countries, but rarely are translation studies scholars brought together to exchange stories about their shared political, institutional, social, legal and cultural experiences. While the topic of translation in multilingual and multicultural contexts has generated considerable intellectual interest of late,  conferences and publications have not concentrated discussions exclusively around contexts of official multilingualism.
This conference wishes to provide an opportunity for translation studies scholars to present and exchange research findings on the specifics of translation and interpretation in officially multilingual contexts, and the "translation effects" (Simon 1996) generated. Many of the world's countries are in fact officially multilingual: Afghanistan (Pashto and Dari), Belgium (Dutch, French and German), Cameroon and Canada (English and French), Finland (Finnish and Swedish), India (23 official languages), Ireland (Irish and English), Israel (Hebrew and Arabic), Norway (two varieties of Norwegian), Pakistan (Urdu and English), Philippines (Filipino and English), South Africa (11 official languages) and Switzerland (French, German, Italian), among other countries. The conference programme will ideally include papers that explore an aspect of the interaction between translation and official multilingualism in the countries mentioned above as well as in others not included in the list.
Accepted papers will enable conference delegates to reflect on the following questions: Do official multilingualism and translation operate and interact in the same or similar ways in these countries? Does the humanist ideal of translation serve to create a common culture in contexts of official multilingualism (Simon 1996) or does it rather serve to divide the constituent cultures through the incompleteness of translation potential resulting in missed encounters between the socio-linguistic groups that are represented in officially multilingual contexts? What experiences and practices are shared by these different contexts and which ones differ? What could or should we learn from experiences and practices that differ from our own? These are just some of the questions that we would like to see discussed during the conference.

The Scientific Committee invites panel proposals and suggests the following non-exhaustive list of sub-themes and questions as potential topics for papers:

•       Concepts and Definitions - official language, national language, institutional language, official translation, institutional translation (see e.g. Mossop 1988);
•        Legislated multilingualism and translation - relation between translation and legislated multilingualism: Is translation legislated? What translation/interpretation is required in the context of legislated multilingualism? What documents must be translated? - the economic costs and benefits of charter translation, effects of official multilingualism on translation policy and practice, effects of legislated translation on official multilingualism, power dynamic between "legislated" languages (Are the official languages equal under the law?) and its impact on translation, impact of translation on power dynamic between charter languages/cultures, official languages versus official minority (e.g. sami and kven in Norway) languages and translation, officially multilingual states/provinces (e.g. Hawaii) within unilingual countries (USA), translation of legislation (legal status), training/selection of official translators and interpreters official multilingualism and translation in pan-national (European Union) versus national contexts;
•       Official translators - their roles throughout history; in particular, the extent to which they are cultural leaders in contexts of linguistic and cultural plurality; tensions between official role as non-partisan mediator and personal agency;
•       Socio-cultural considerations: Does translation serve the humanist ideal of striving to create a common culture (Simon 1996) or does it serve to divide cultures in contexts of official multilingualism? - relationship between a country's official (national) languages (Is it harmonious or disharmonious and why?) and impact of the relationship on national identity, the power dynamic between official languages in the real world versus their legal status (ideological considerations), relationship between official and non-official language translation and interpretation;
•       Literature - impact of official multilingualism on the literary polysystem(s), translation of "national" literature(s) between official languages, effects of legislated translation on the themes and figures of literature (e.g., Poliquin in the Canadian context).

Please send two abstracts to Denise Merkle (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 30 September 2011: the first (to be included in the program) should be from 250 to 300 words, and the second (to be included in the grant application) should be no more than 150 words.

Please submit the following information with your abstract:
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Scientific Committee
Gillian Lane-Mercier, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Denise Merkle, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Reine Meylaerts, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN TRANSLATION
London Metropolitan University - Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Salary: £31,794 to £38,823/£37,479 to £47,196 inclusive per annum

We wish to appoint a Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Translation (Electronic tools and terminology management).

Federici, Federico M. (ed.)

Translating Dialects and Languages of Minorities 
Challenges and Solutions 

www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54535&cid=5&concordeid=430178

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. 245 pp., num. ill., tables and graphs
New Trends in Translation Studies. Vol. 6
Edited by Jorge Díaz Cintas

Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin / Marie Biscio / Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín (eds)

AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION: SUBTITLES AND SUBTITLING
Theory and Practice
www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=59851&cid=5&concordeid=430299

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. XIV, 288 pp., num. fig. and tables
New Trends in Translation Studies. Vol. 9
Edited by Jorge Díaz Cintas

www.peterlang.com?newtrans

pb. ISBN 978-3-0343-0299-9
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Book Synopsis:
An increasing number of contributions have appeared in recent years on the subject of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly in relation to dubbing and subtitling. The broad scope of this branch of Translation Studies is challenging because it brings together diverse disciplines, including film studies, translatology, semiotics, linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, technology and ICT.
This volume addresses issues relating to AVT research and didactics. The first section is dedicated to theoretical aspects in order to stimulate further debate and encourage progress in research-informed teaching. The second section focuses on a less developed area of research in the field of AVT: its potential use in foreign language pedagogy.
This collection of articles is intended to create a discourse on new directions in AVT and foreign language learning. The book begins with reflections on wider methodological issues, advances to a proposed model of analysis for colloquial speech, touches on more ‘niche’ aspects of AVT (e.g. surtitling), progresses to didactic applications in foreign language pedagogy and learning at both linguistic and cultural levels, and concludes with a practical proposal for the use of AVT in foreign language classes. An interview with a professional subtitler draws the volume to a close.

Contents:
Łukasz Bogucki: The Application of Action Research to Audiovisual Translation – Lupe Romero: When Orality Is Less Pre-fabricated: An Analytical Model for the Study of Colloquial Conversation in Audiovisual Translation – Maria Freddi/Silvia Luraghi:  Titling for the Opera House: A Test Case for Universals of Translation? – Eduard Bartoll: The Surtitling in Catalan of Classic Foreign Theatre Plays – Claudia Borghetti: Intercultural Learning through Subtitling: The Cultural Studies Approach – Marcella De Marco: Bringing Gender into the Subtitling Classroom – Eithne O’Connell: Formal and Casual Language Learning: What Subtitles Have to Offer Minority Languages like Irish – Elisa Perego/Elisa Ghia: Subtitle Consumption according to Eye Tracking Data: An Acquisitional Perspective – Noa Talaván Zanón: A Quasi-experimental Research Project on Subtitling and Foreign Language Acquisition – Stavroula Sokoli/Patrick Zabalbeascoa/Maria Fountana: Subtitling Activities for Foreign Language Learning: What Learners and Teachers Think – Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin/Jennifer Lertola: Learn through Subtitling: Subtitling as an Aid to Language Learning – Carlo Eugeni: A Professional’s Perspective.

About the Editors:
Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin teaches translation, interpreting and language (Italian) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published extensively on foreign language acquisition and use of subtitling in foreign language teaching and learning, especially at an advanced level.
Marie Biscio is a research student in Italian and French studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has worked as a research assistant on subtitling and didactics. Her research interests include audiovisual translation, particularly interlingual subtitling and multilingual subtitling.
Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín teaches French language and literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published on French literature.

Translation, Texts, Media / Traduction, textes, médias