Audiovisual translation across Europe: an ever-changing landscape

European Society for the Study of English conference: Torino, 24-28 August 2010

To this purpose, we invite contributions on any form of audiovisual translation (dubbing, subtitling, audio description, subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing, surtitling, voice-over, etc.) from European scholars working in the areas of film studies, translation and interpreting, linguistics, cultural studies and language teaching. We would like this seminar to be an opportunity for people coming from different countries, with different experiences of audiovisual translation, to exchange ideas about the practice and perception of such a pervasive and important form of cross-lingual and cross-cultural communication. Moreover, this seminar should be an opportunity to unveil and discuss new theoretical frameworks and research methodologies, which could help sketch a map of this domain of studies in a European framework. Possible topics might include: • filmmaking, screenwriting and audiovisual translation • language and cultural policy and audiovisual translation • linguistic approaches to audiovisual translation • cognitivism and audiovisual translation • new research methods in audiovisual translation • the reception of translated audiovisual programmes • language teaching, language learning and audiovisual translation • new technologies and developments in audiovisual translation Please send a 200-word abstract of the proposed paper directly to the convenors of the seminar before 31 January 2010: Pila Orero pilar.orero@uab.es Silvia Bruti s.bruti@angl.unipi.it Elena Di Giovanni elena.digiovanni@unimc.it The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 28 February 2010. Conference website: [url=http://www.unito.it/esse2010]www.unito.it/esse2010[/url] Pilar Orero Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona Department of Translation Office: K-1007 Edifici K UAB Campus 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) SPAIN Phone: +34 93 58133 65 Fax: +34 93 581 27 62 pilar.orero@uab.cat Silvia Bruti Dipartimento di Anglistica Università degli Studi di Pisa Via Santa Maria 67 56126 PISA ITALY +39 050 2215861 s.bruti@angl.unipi.it Elena Di Giovanni Dip.to di ricerca linguistica, letteraria e filologica Università degli Studi di Macerata Via Garibaldi, 77 62100 Macerata ITALY +39 0733 2584361 elena.digiovanni@unimc.it