Challenges and Alliances in PSI&T Research and Practice

3rd International Conference on Public Service Interpreting & Translating & 7th International Conference on Translation

Being the main theme of the 2008 Conference Challenges and Alliances in PSI&T Research and Practice, the main purpose is to generate discussion on such issues as: 1. Research and methodology in PSI&T 2. The influence of research results in policies, regulations and practices in PSI&T 3. The relationships between practitioners and academics 4. Practice as a source of data 5. Research as a path to improve the quality of practice 6. The position of PSI&T in Interpreting and Translation Studies The Conference will include plenary lectures, papers, seminars and round tables. Participants delivering papers will have a maximum of 30 mn (the discussion/questions time included). The official languages will be Spanish and English. Practitioners, trainers and academics interested in participating are kindly asked to send a 200-word abstract before November 30, 2007 by e.mail (with the abstract included, not attached) to: traduccion.sspp@uah.es and carmen.valero@uah.es The abstract must be sent together with the registration sheet, which can be downloaded at: [url=http://www2.uah.es/traduccion]http://www2.uah.es/traduccion[/url] The host's selection decision will be communicated to the proposers by December 10, 2007, together with information on registration procedure, accommodation and publication guidelines. Proposers whose papers are approved will have to submit the whole paper text (PC Word 6.0, both on floppy disk and printed out) by 20 January 2008, otherwise they could not be included in the CD proceedings. Carmen Valero-Garcés carmen.valero@uah.es, FITISPos Co-ordinator; University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain