The Taboo Conference
TaCo2012 Forlì (Italy), 25-27 October 2012
Call for papers
http://taco2012.sitlec.unibo.it
In a world that seems continuously to be pushing the envelope of what is acceptable to the inhabitants of specific linguistic and cultural contexts, this interdisciplinary conference acknowledges the importance of investigating taboos and their reinforcement/breaking in various areas of language, culture and society, and across different cultures.
The languages of films
Dubbing, acquisition and methodology
14-15 September 2012 - University of Pavia
This conference aims to offer an original contribution to research on audiovisual translation and language learning from a descriptive and a methodological perspective by focussing on the specificities of original and dubbed film dialogue. The main themes which will be investigated during the conference include linguistic aspects of original and dubbed film dialogue, the representation of conversation on the screen and the role of original and dubbed audiovisual input in second/foreign
language acquisition.
Norwich Papers
Call for Contributions 2011/12
Theme - The Next BIG Thing: Current Trends in Translation.
MMDT2012 - MULTIMEDIALECTRANSLATION - 3-5 May 2012
5th Conference of the translation of dialects and dialects in multimedia - University of Turku (Finland)
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.
Theories and Methodologies of Translation History
Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 20 Number 1, 2014)
Call for papers for a special issue of The Translator guest edited by Christopher Rundle (University of Bologna and Manchester).
The corporeal and the spiritual in the works of Walter Scott
organized by D2I (VALE) and SFEEc, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Thursday 5th and Friday 6th July 2012.
Walter Scott often seems determined to erase the body from his texts, following the traditional Cartesian opposition between body and soul, the body being merely, to use Plato’s image, the tomb of the soul. Thus the novelist often chooses to focus only on his characters’ intellectual development, giving the reader so few details about their physical appearance that it is often quite difficult to picture them.