TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

CONVERGENCE, CONTACT, INTERACTION

TRIESTE, 26-28 MAY 2016 

The Department of Law, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies of the University of Trieste is pleased to announce the International Conference on Translation and Interpreting: Convergence, Contact, Interaction.

The Conference will be held at the University of Trieste on 26-28 May 2016. 

Translation and interpreting scholars often attend different conferences or different sessions within the same conference. Opportunities for contact and comparison between specialists in the two disciplines are therefore lacking, even though such specialists would have a great deal to discuss in terms of research, teaching and professional practice.

A glance at the current state of the profession reveals a varied scenario in which Translation and Interpreting often constitute two interlingual processes performed by the same person in the same communicative situation or in different situations within the same set of relations and contacts, at times inextricably linked to other competences and other knowledge, though often seen as a single entity in the eyes of the public at large.

Translation and Interpreting can thus be found in relations of overlap, hybridity and contiguity, and effected variously in professional practices, strategies and translation processes.

Considering the day-to-day situation of Translation and Interpreting and abandoning – as with the concept of Translationswissenschaft – the traditional standpoint of separation and contrast, the idea of the Trieste Conference is to create a common space for reflection based on the topic, the area, the subject or the discipline in which Translation and Interpreting are both enacted as a service to society.

Translation and Interpreting are therefore presented as a binomial (T&I) inviting experts from both disciplines to meet and propose contributions which in themselves will create a comparison between these two different yet closely connected practices on topics including:

T&I in law

T&I in economics

T&I in politics

T&I in medicine

T&I in sport

T&I in tourism

T&I in science and technology

T&I in entertainment, art and culture

…

In particular, the conference wishes to encourage reflection on the various themes listed above, and will explore issues including, but not limited to, the following topics: required knowledge and competence, quality, linguistic, cognitive and ethical aspects, language combinations and directionality, theoretical approaches, research methodologies, professional practice and associated constraints, the status and prestige of professionals, the use of information technology, training, …

The official languages of the conference are English and Italian. Presentations in other languages cannot be guaranteed and require approval from the organisers.

The time allotted to each presentation will be 20 minutes.

Conference dates: 26–28 May 2016

Abstract submission deadline (max 400 words references excluded): 31 January 2016

Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2016

Early Bird Registration: 31 March 2016

Deadline for registration and payment: 30 April 2016

Registration

Registration is now open.

Early bird registration (until 31 March): € 150
Late Registration (deadline 30 April): € 170
Students and PhD students: € 120

The registration fee must be transferred to the Bank account of
Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, del Linguaggio, dell’Interpretazione e della Traduzione
UniCredit Banca SpA
via F. Severo 152 – Trieste

IBAN: IT52Q0200802223000000976801
BIC / SWIFT: UNCRITM10UC
 
IMPORTANT: The message field must contain the name of the participant and the words: “Transint2016 registration”

Contact

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ADDRESS Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, del Linguaggio, Dell'Interpretazione e della Traduzione (IUSLIT) - Sezione di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori via Fabio Filzi,14 34132 Trieste

INFO transint2016@units.it

Audiovisual translation:

Dubbing and Subtitling in the Central European context

Call for papers

1. Audiovisual translation: theory vs practice

2. Tradition and innovation in AVT

3. Communication, translation, manipulation

4. One country – two translations

5. Audiovisual translation: accessibility and reception

6. Audiovisual media and translation practice in the central European context

Important dates
Conference date: 15-17 June 2016
Abstract submission (EXTENDED): 30 March 2016
Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2016
Registration and payment (to be paid after the acceptance of your abstract): 30 April 2016
Venue and location
Submission and registration
Bank account number: 7000073076/8180
Bank account name: Dary Filozofickej fakulty UKF v Nitre
Account holder: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre
Address: Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra
IČO: 00157716
IBAN: SK5481800000007000073076
SWIFT: SUBASKBX
PAYMENT DETAILS: AVT conference, name and surname
VARIABLE SYMBOL: 102 250

Within the last couple of decades, an increased interest in audiovisual translation (AVT) within the scope of translation studies and intercultural communication in Europe can be observed. An escalating need to reflect this specific type of translation communication has emerged from various cultural, social, geopolitical and technological changes which have taken place at both a global and local level. Because of the impact of these changes, approaches and views on media and translation practice are being modified and the demands of the translation market are becoming more salient. This influences reflection upon AVT, stimulates the emergence of new interdisciplinary approaches and defines more particular requirements in translation training. Audiovisual translation has also attracted the attention of the European Union, mainly in relation to its efforts to make the individual cultures of member states available to all EU citizens. Due to economic and technological pressures the quality of AVT has become a topical issue in the last decade as well.

Aiming to map the situation in AVT practices in the central European context, the goal of the conference is to provide an opportunity for scholars and practitioners in AVT and related areas to present their approaches, research and experience. The ambition of the organisers is to initiate a discussion on the specifics of theory, criticism, translation training and AVT practice in the defined cultural and geographical area – with respect to its translation tradition, language and cultural context as well as the demands of the translation market.

The conference will provide a platform for presentations and discussion focusing mainly at the following topics:

(history and development of AVT, theoretical approaches, translation competence and specialised training, specifics of translation practice)

(new approaches and technologies in AVT, quality standards, fansubbing and fan dubbing )

(AVT modalities, ideology in translation, meaning manipulation, censorship)

(pluricentric versions in AVT, bilingual subtitling, language diversity)

(subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, artistic interpretation into sign language, audiodescription, target audience reception)

(translation from/into languages of limited diffusion, market requirements, working conditions, legal aspects, intellectual property, translator status)

The conference will take place at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, from 15 to 17 June 2016.

Applicants interested in participating are kindly asked to send a 250-300 word proposal for their paper together with a short bionote and name of their affiliate organisation by 15 March 2016 to:         avtnitraconference@gmail.com
Registration


The registration and payment (to be paid after the acceptance of your abstract) should be finalised by 30 April 2016.


Registration fees:

* Students must provide a photocopy of a valid student ID with the registration form (by e-mail)
The conference fee (+ fee for conference workshops if interested) should be paid via bank transfer using the information provided below.
Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
Bank name: Štátna pokladnica
If an invoice is required, please send us the complete invoice details together with the registration form. The latest date that an invoice can be requested is 10 days after we receive the payment. Otherwise a stamped confirmation of the payment can be issued at any time.
Registration fees are not refundable.
Note: All transfer charges and any other financial costs have to be paid by the sender.

Symposium

Making Music in Film: XI. Symposium for Film Music Research

July 21 - 23, 2016 Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik, Freiburg, GermanyHosted by the Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (ZPKM) Freiburg
and the Kiel Society for Film Music Research

The XI. Symposium for Film Music Research will take place at the Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (Centre for Popular Culture and Music), University of Freiburg, and will be dedicated to the filmic representation of musical performance.
Scenes and sequences that show film characters making music have always been essential attractions of cinema. What does it mean when characters break into song or start playing an instrument? Which topoi, conventions or stereotypes can we find across different musical and film genres? Which perspectives on the act of musical performance do films and TV formats offer? Which popular attitudes towards the conditions, rules and peculiarities of musical practice in their historical, economic and political contexts have shaped filmic representations?


Addressing these and other questions, the conference centers on the analysis and interpretation of scenes that show music-making. Such scenes should be examined and discussed within narratological, aesthetic, stylistic, musicological, performance and gender contexts. We welcome discussions of various film genres and TV formats beyond musical films or biopics of musicians.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

a. musical performance in its narrative context
b. diegetic music in silent film
c. rehearsal and performance in stage/backstage and other diegetic settings
d. musical performances in documentaries
e. musical performance and the construction of myths and star images
f. musical performance in TV formats and series
g. performative acts and gender construction
h. virtuosity vs. amateurism
i. musical performance as communication
j. construction of collectives through performance
k. filmic and performative spaces
l. physicality of musical performances
m. spontaneous expression vs. rehearsed performance


For the open part of the conference, we welcome submissions of proposals dealing with any aspect of music in film. We particularly encourage younger scholars and PhD students to present their current research at the conference.

Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) for a 25 min presentation, as well as a short biography (max. 100 words), to filmmusik@email.uni-kiel.de (contacts: Tarek Krohn and Willem Strank).

Submission deadline: March 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2016
Conference languages are German and English.
The organizers will not be able to cover any travel costs or other fees.

Summer School

Re-Ordering Diversity: Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Forced Migration and Displacement

4 - 8 July 2016

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)

Application Deadline: 30 April 2016

Forced migration and displacement are controversially debated issues in current public and political discourse. A rhetoric of threatened order manifests itself alongside attempts to frame the situation as manageable, or even as a chance.

Considering the resulting challenges that politics and practitioners are facing, the need for a more thorough academic engagement becomes apparent. On the one hand, it is paramount to collect a corpus of data which will enable a better theorization of the issues at hand; on the other hand, academics have to take responsibility as the ‘informed consultants’ politicians and practitioners are in need of.



The Summer School will take place from 4th until 8th July 2016 at the University of Tuebingen, as a cooperation between the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress”, the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen).



We welcome applications from PhD students and early career researchers from social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political science, and related fields of cultural studies and social sciences. The aim of the Summer School is to learn about and discuss relevant topics and academic approaches through a dialogue between different agents from the field: academics, practitioners, and refugees.

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Both those people categorized as ‘refugees’ and the societies receiving them are extremely diverse. Due to a lack of academic expertise and theorization, this aspect has so far been only marginally acknowledged in the German-speaking context. In the field, this often results in irritations and complex conflicts between agents, in which a perceived threat against one’s own group dominates the discourse.


In collaboration with researchers from diversity studies, and taking into account the CRC’s model of ‘threatened order’, the summer school will deal with these issues and work towards finding answers to the following questions:


Which forms of diversity are articulated in the context of forced migration and displacement?


What new forms of diversity emerge?



Which mechanisms of order do involved agents and institutions apply (‘re-ordering’)?



The Summer School provides a platform for dialogue between different agents from the field (researchers, practitioners, refugees), who, together, will develop hypotheses and further questions. The goal is to find ways to theorize and frame forced migration and displacement in terms of questions of diversity, humanitarian assistance and ‘threatened order’, and especially to integrate and specify topics from ongoing and emerging research projects.

Aside from a close cooperation between the research institutes, involving practitioners and refugees has a high priority within our concept. The idea is to pursue research not about them, but collectively as a joint effort.


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Contact
https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/sonderforschungsbereiche/sfb-923/veranstaltungen/summer-school.html

About the Conference

Ege University School of Foreign Languages and the British Council are proud to announce the international ELT conference that will take place on May 26-27, 2016 at Ege University Campus, İzmir, Turkey. The theme of this event has been set as Cultivation of Quality Culture in ELT in Higher Education.

The conference aims to gather a large number of scholars who seek to improve quality in higher education. The event will offer a look at the issues in the domain and provide a platform for exchanging, discussing and fostering ideas on the concept of quality culture.

We hope to host many ELT professionals from around the world here in İzmir. If you are willing to join the conference as an audience, please click here to fill in the registration form.

Conference Themes

Proposals for presentations are expected (but not limited to) on the themes below:

Cultivation of quality culture in terms of

• curriculum,
• continuing professional development,
• performance evaluation,
• learning environment,
• learner autonomy,
• technology use,
• organization culture and climate,
• educational management,
• strategic planning,
• assessment,
• benchmarking.

Contributions are welcome from anyone involved in ELT. Thus, we invite you to share your research and practices around the main theme with a 20-minute oral presentation plus a 10-minute discussion section.

Call for Papers

Submission Guidelines

The conference language is English and all abstracts must bemaximum 250 words in length and must include at least 3 key words. Papers must conform to APA style (6th edition).Abstracts must be in line with the conference theme. Submissions should also include a 30-word bio. Abstracts can only be submitted through the link below.

Click here to submit your abstract.

Selection will be carried out by a screening committee. The papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings.

Notification of accepted proposals will be declared by April 15, 2016. Presenters must register to the event by April 22, 2016latest to confirm their attendance. The registration fee is € 60. The organizing committee will assume that the presenters have decided against attending unless they register by the deadline.

Contact Information

İ. İlkay Özdemir, Sinem Tekir

pdu.ege@gmail.com

Accommodation

All guests are required to make their own transportation and accommodation arrangements.

Ege University Guest House

Located on the campus, all the rooms at the guest house have shower, air-conditioner, mini-bar, and TV set. Guesthouse is within easy reach of the Conference Venue (5 minutes walk).

E.U. Guesthouse Web site can be reached athttp://sksdb.ege.edu.tr/1661/Konukevi.html

Mail: konukevi@mail.ege.edu.tr

Phone: +90 232 3881447

Anemon Ege Hotel (****)

Located on the campus, Anemon Ege Hotel is within easy reach of the Conference Venue (10 minutes walk) and provides shuttle for its customers from and to the airport.

Phone: +90 232 373 48 62 , +90 232 339 99 93

For reservations and further enquiries, please visit the website

http://www.anemonhotels.com/en/hotel-izmir/anemon-ege.aspx

Hotels in downtown can be reached via

www.booking.com

www.tripadvisor.com

International Linguistics Conference in Lublin

Building on the success of the first three conferences, the Institute of English Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is organizing the  4th meeting of Linguistics Beyond And Within — International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. The conference, to be held on 20–21 October 2016, will be hosted by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, and the Department of Contrastive English-Polish Studies. The language of the conference is English. This year the talks will be guided by the following leitmotif:


Call for papers/Talks and posters

We wish to encourage all linguists representing various theoretical models and practical applications to present their contributions during both oral and poster sessions in the following research areas:

theoretical linguistics
phonetics & phonology
morphology
semantics
syntax
corpus studies

applied linguistics
language teaching & language acquisition
pragmatics
discourse analysis
translation studies
socio- and psycholinguistics


Please consider that the leitmotif of LingBaW 2015 is: Controversy in Linguistics and Language Studies.

Each paper presentation in an oral session will be scheduled for a 20-minute talk followed by a 10-minute discussion. Poster sessions will last about 45 minutes during which the authors are required to be present and ready to answer questions from conference participants passing by. The poster format is 100x70cm (vertical orientation). The language of the conference is English.


As previously, we would like to invite scholars with innovative approaches to linguistics viewed from a range of intra- and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Important dates:
Abstract submission: 30 June 2016
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2016
Registration: 10 September 2016
Conference: 20–21 October 2016
Paper submission: 31 January 2017

Abstract submission

Abstracts of no more than 400 words (including references) should be sent by 30th June 2016 in .doc format to our e-mail address:lingbaw@gmail.com. It is expected that any paper presented at LingBaW 2016 is original and has not been previously presented or published.

In the body of the email, please include the following information: title of paper, name of author, scientific degree, affiliation, research area (one from the above-mentioned) and form of presentation (speech/poster).

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously; please do not put your name on the abstract itself.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15th August.
Call for workshop proposals New !


The upcoming edition of the LingBaW Conference will also host two thematic workshops up to a limit of ten papers plus one slot for an introductory paper by workshop convenors.

The deadline for the submission of workshop proposals is 31st May 2016.

Each workshop proposal must include: the title, a 500-word abstract that summarizes the theme and goals of the workshop and the names, affiliations, and contact details of the workshop organizers. The proposal should also contain a list of five prospective participants. It should also indicate any special requirements you might have in terms of equipment.

Workshop organizers are responsible for advertising the workshop, organizing the reviewing process, and running the workshop.

Conference fee


The conference fee is 300 PLN (€80) and includes conference materials, reception, refreshments and publication of the proceedings.

Proceedings

The preliminary deadline for submission of completed papers is 31st January 2017.

Further information


Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us here or at lingbaw@gmail.com.

The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture

International Conference

30 September 2016 – Warsaw, Poland

organised by Interdisciplinary Research Foundation

The twentieth-century literature and culture tended to explore and to celebrate subjectivity. But this tendency did not mean the turn to the self, but beyond the self, or as Charles Taylor puts it, “to a fragmentation of experience which calls our ordinary notions of identity into question”.

In his attempts to define the uncanny Freud asserted that it is undoubtedly related to what is frightening – to what arouses dread and horror. It may be something domestic but at the same time unfriendly, dangerous, something that sets the sense of insecurity within the four walls of one’s house. “Persons, things, sense-impressions, experiences and situations which are known and long familiar arouse in us the feeling of danger, fear and even horror. Everyday objects may suddenly lose their familiar side, and become messengers”.

The uncanny suggests an unsettling of the feeling of comfort and reassurance in one’s home, but also in oneself. Architecture takes the place of psychology (Kreilkamp). The perturbed relationship between the characters and their familiar world, the troubled sense of home and self-certainty is a result of a traumatic experience of loss.

As Cathy Caruth claims, “to be traumatized is precisely to be possessed by an image or event”. It usually involves time disruption with the past surfacing in the present, especially the past which has not been worked through. The memory traces are revised and interweave with fresh experiences producing the uncanny effect.

In the new literary and artistic discourse authors tend to depict the new human being, “psychologically deep and multi-layered, fragmentary, floating on sensation and consciousness, fed by their random thoughts and their half-conscious dream worlds” (Bradbury). The new style relies on fragments, breaks, ellipses and disrupted linearity of the narration. It serves to convey the idea of the fractured character of modern time and fragmentariness and allusiveness of subconscious thought. As “an externalization of consciousness”, the uncanny becomes a meta-concept for modernity with its disintegration of time, space and self.

This conference seeks to explore the representations of the uncanny in language, literature and culture. Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:
uncanny geographies
uncanny technologies
the uncanny and visual tropes
the uncanny and postcolonialism
the uncanny and gender studies
the uncanny and sexuality

We also welcome poster proposals that address the conference theme.

The conference aims to bring together scholars from different fields. We invite proposals from psychology, sociology, anthropology, literature, linguistics, etc.

The language of the conference is English.

Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 15 May 2016 to: uncanny@irf-network.org. Download paper proposal form.

A selection of papers will be published in a collected volume.

Full registration fee – 70 € Student registration fee – 50 €

Conference venue: As-Bud Conference Centre, Al. Jerozolimskie 81, Warsaw