The main tasks of the Social Media and Outreach Committee are:
• The creation of an online interactive IATIS community where members can promote their interests
• The efficient management of the IATIS website
• The active presence of IATIS on social media so that news and activities are disseminated all over the world
• The identification of appropriate news items, events and announcements to be hosted on the website and social media
• The investigation of ways in which online presence for IATIS and its members can be increased
• The creation of an online newsletter devoted to latest news, events and announcements to be sent to IATIS members regularly
The Committee reports to the IATIS Executive Council.
Chair of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
The Education University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
marija[dot]todorova[at]gmail[dot]com
Marija Todorova is an assistant professor at The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research is widely published in academic journals, monographs, and edited volumes. Beyond academia, she has contributed to major international organizations including UNHCR, UNDP, and OSCE. An accomplished literary translator, she has rendered works by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis into Macedonian, earning the National Translation Prize. She is the author of The Translation of Violence in Children’s Literature: Images from the Western Balkans (Routledge 2022). Dr. Todorova is editor of New Voices in Translation Studies.
Member of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shenzhen
stone0718[at]gmail[dot]com
Li-Wen Chang is a Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Her research interests include interpreting studies, social semiotics, multimodality, and social media. She is also a practising translator, specializing in the translation of literature, religion, and spirituality. She translated dozens of books from English into Chinese, including The Hand That First Held Mine, A Secret Kept, Rose, Proof of Heaven, Small Miracles, The Monks and Me, etc.
Member of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
Cardiff University
United Kingdom
GaoQ6[at]cardiff[dot]ac[dot]uk
Qipeng Gao (he/him) is a teacher at School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University. His research interests span from videogame localisation to international Chinese education and the impact of media products. He is particularly interested in videogame storytelling, its reception, and its application in localisation quality assessment. He is also an active translator and localiser, having worked on multiple science fictions by international authors and independent videogames.
Member of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
King Khalid University
Saudi Arabia
altalidi[dot]b[at]gmail[dot]com
Bandar Altalidi is an assistant professor at the College of Languages and Translation, at King Khalid University. He has an MA degree in translation from the University of Leicester and a PhD in translation from Cardiff University. His research interest includes the sociology of translation, audiovisual transition, non-professional subtitling (fansubbing) and digital translation on social media. Since 2016, Bandar has been volunteering and participating in translation projects and tasks such as Translators without Borders and subtitling various clips. He is also a certified literary agent in Saudi Arabia and translates scientific and technical material. He has recently translated The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, by Erik Larson, into Arabic. Bandar is a certified EN>AR translator.
Member of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
University of Bisha
Saudi Arabia
asalgarni[at]ub[dot]edu[dot]sa
Abdullah Alqarni, an assistant professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of Bisha, is a certified literary agent and a member of the Saudi Association of Translation (SATA). He holds a PhD in Translation Studies from Cardiff University, awarded in 2024, and an MA from the University of Leicester, obtained in 2017. His research interests include the sociology of translation, translation history, translation bibliographies, institutional translation, and the translation of self-help literature. He has shared his insights at notable conferences including IATIS 2021 in Barcelona, TRAK2021 in Córdoba, and the Summer School Translation in History 2021 in Vienna. Recently, he secured funding for multiple research projects from the Literature, Publishing & Translation Commission in Saudi Arabia. Currently, he oversees various translation and literary projects and is translating Bernard Marr’s ‘Future Skills: The 20 Skills and Competencies Everyone Needs to Succeed in a Digital World’ into Arabic.
