EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES
5th EST CONGRESS - LJUBLJANA 2007
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Why Translation Studies Matters
3rd – 5th September 2007, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Translation Studies - New international peer-reviewed journal
First issue January 2008
This journal aims to extend the areas of interest, methodologies and conceptual frameworks inside the discipline of Translation Studies, while testing the traditional boundaries of the notion of ‘translation’ and offering a forum for debate focusing on historical, social, institutional and cultural issues that are strongly rooted in the text level, but also go far beyond it.
First international seminar on new technologies in real time intralingual subtitling
[url=http://www.respeaking.net]www.respeaking.net[/url]
Respeaking is a very recent form of audiovisual translation. Generally speaking it is the production of real time subtitles by means of a speech recognition software transcribing a simultaneous reformulation of the source text produced by the operator, or respeaker.
MULTIMEDIALECTRANSLATION FORLI’ 10-12 MAY 2007
Third International Conference on the Translation of Dialects in Multimedia
The conference is directed at academics from various disciplines as well as translators and students who are interested in the translation of dialects in multimedia contexts.
TRANSLATION AND CENSORSHIP
FROM THE 18TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 June 2006
SEE www.tradcens.net
FORENSIC TRANSLATION
TRANSLATION WATCH QUARTERLY
Translation Watch Quarterly invites submissions from academics and professionals in the areas of forensics, criminal justice, forensic linguistics, translation and adjacent disciplines, for a special December 2006 issue devoted to examining the role of translation in forensics and criminal investigations.
AFLS Symposium at the University of East Anglia, Norwich - 3-4 November 2006
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions
Keynote speakers:
Helen Spencer-Oatey (cross/intercultural studies)
Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (discourse in interaction)
Declan McCavana (non-standard language varieties)