2009 IATIS Conference

Panel Proposals

IATIS invites proposals for panels for the 2009 IATIS Conference to be held in Melbourne (Australia). The deadline is *Thursday, 31 January, 2008*. Panels are groups of papers organised around a particular theme. Proposals for panels should take the form of one or two paragraphs establishing the rationale for a panel, a succinct statement of the aims of the panel, and a list of specific issues that intending contributors might address. Please visit the conference web site ([url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Current-Events/2009-Events/IATIS-Conference/Default.asp]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Current-Events/2009-Events/IATIS-Conference/Default.asp[/url]) for a downloadable version of this call for panel proposals. A Panel Proposal Submission Form with further details on the submission procedure can be downloaded from: [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Current-Events/2009-Events/IATIS-Conference/Call-for-Panels/Default.asp]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Current-Events/2009-Events/IATIS-Conference/Call-for-Panels/Default.asp[/url] The theme of the conference is: *Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context*. This embraces such topics as transnational media, globalisation, cultural translation and intercultural relations. Related thematic areas include, but are not limited to, the following: · the role of translation in the reporting of conflict across linguistic and cultural divides; · 'cultural translation' between mainlands and diasporas, as well as among diasporas; · the translator / interpreter as cultural broker in a transnational world; · intercultural relations and their political impact, including the need for 'translating' between old and new; · interaction between the cultures of 'large' and 'small' nations; · the role of literary translation in challenging or reinforcing cultural difference; · covert censorship - mediated manipulations and the role of the translator / interpreter; · high culture and popular culture as sites of contest over the extent of entry into new global contexts; · transnational media and their role in facilitating, or discouraging, intercultural understanding; · transnational and regional identities and their relationship to culture and processes of translation; · the role of translators and other intercultural experts in helping individuals and groups to acquire cultural competence in cultures previously remote from them. Confirmed keynote speakers to date: MARTHA CHEUNG (Hong Kong) MICHAEL COOKE, ROSE LAYNBALAYNBA and MERLYN BANDAYNGA (Australia) SEHNAZ TAHIR GÜRÇAÐLAR (Turkey) FRANCIS JONES (UK) JEFF MCWHINNEY (UK)