3rd Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 8-10 July, 2009

The theme of the conference is *Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context*. This embraces a wide range of topics which include but are not limited to: globalisation and localisation; cultural translation; the role of literary translation in challenging or reinforcing cultural difference; intercultural relations; gender, sexuality and norms in intercultural studies; transnational media; issues in signed languages interpreting and translation. There will also be more than twenty special panels on a range of topics (see below). Intending participants may submit an abstract for their proposed paper either to the general conference or to an individual panel through its chair. 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 panel descriptions and for details on how to submit an abstract. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words long (for a 20-minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes discussion time). *Special Panels* Panel 1: Between languages: literary translation in / of the Pacific Panel 2: Child language brokering: the 'unseen' mediators Panel 3: Hidden and revealed: censorship in translation Panel 4: Self-translation: brokering originality in hybrid culture Panel 5: Mediating conflict in audiovisual texts Panel 6: In the footsteps of Ian Mason Panel 7: Tourism and international marketing as intercultural transfer / negotiation Panel 8: Policy and performance: interpreting in asylum hearings Panel 9: 'Small' languages on the global market: impact on translation / interpreting practices Panel 10: Mediterranean crossroads Panel 11: Translation and conflict dissolution: unmasking complexities; voicing perplexities Panel 12: Mediating religion: translation, censorship and conflicting identities Panel 13: Contexts in translation education Panel 14: Translation Technology and Conflict Panel 15: Shaping Chinese modernity through translation Panel 16: Mediating the competing truth claims of testimonial Panel 17: World literature and translation Panel 18: Cognitive explorations of translation and interpreting processes Panel 19: Legal translation as mediation between legal cultures? Panel 20: Translation history: early translations and contemporary perceptions Panel 21: Global news, interpreting / translating and the projection of cultures Panel 22: Interpreter training in the global context --- KEY DATES Deadline for submission of abstracts: Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 Latest date for official notification of acceptance of abstracts: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 Deadline for presenters to confirm participation by registering: Thursday, 30 April, 2009 -- IATIS 2009 Program Committee Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context 3rd Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 8-10 July, 2009 [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]

3rd CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (IATIS)

[IATISMembers2008] IATIS 2009 Call for Papers (General Conference and Special Panels)

General Conference The theme of the conference is: ?Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context?. This embraces such topics as globalisation and localisation, cultural translation, intercultural relations and transnational media. 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; * the role of literary translation in challenging or reinforcing cultural difference; * covert censorship ? mediated manipulations and the role of the translator / interpreter; * policy and practice; * issues in signed languages interpreting and translation; * high culture and popular culture as sites of contest or mediation; * transnational media and their role in facilitating, or discouraging, intercultural understanding; * new media in translation; * gender, sexuality and norms in intercultural studies; * transnational and regional identities and their relationship to culture and processes of translation; * intercultural mediation, including community interpreting and translation; * political and ideological dimensions of translation. Special Panels In addition, a number of Special Panels have been proposed. If you would like to propose a paper that fits in with one of the panels listed below, you should submit your abstract directly to the chair of that panel. Please visit the web site for a description of each panel and for details on how to submit an abstract. * Panel 1: Between languages: literary translation in/of the Pacific Chair: Jean Anderson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL1.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL1.pdf[/url] * Panel 2: Child language brokering: the ?unseen? mediators Chairs: Rachele Antonini (University of Bologna, Italy) and Marjorie Orellana (University of California Los Angeles, USA) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL2.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL2.pdf[/url] * Panel 3: Hidden and revealed: censorship in translation Chairs: Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy) and Federico Federici (Durham University, UK) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL3.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL3.pdf[/url] * Panel 4: Self-translation: brokering originality in hybrid culture Chair: Anthony Cordingley (Université Paris III ? Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL4.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL4.pdf[/url] * Panel 5: Mediating conflict in audiovisual texts Chairs: Elena Di Giovanni (University of Macerata, Italy) and Luis Pérez-González (University of Manchester, UK) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL5.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL5.pdf[/url] * Panel 6: In the footsteps of Ian Mason Chairs: ECPC Research Group (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL6.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL6.pdf[/url] * Panel 7: Tourism and international marketing as intercultural transfer/negotiation Chairs: Adrián Fuentes (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) and Cristina Valdés (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL7.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL7.pdf[/url] * Panel 8: Policy and performance: interpreting in asylum hearings Chairs: Adolfo Gentile (Monash University, Australia) and Franz Pöchhacker (University of Vienna, Austria) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL8.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL8.pdf[/url] * Panel 9: ?Small? languages on the global market: impact on translation/interpreting practices Chair: Anca Greere (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL9.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL9.pdf[/url] * Panel 10: Mediterranean crossroads Chair: Rainer Guldin (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL10.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL10.pdf[/url] * Panel 11: Translation and conflict dissolution: unmasking complexities; voicing perplexities Chairs: Sue-Ann Harding (University of Manchester, UK) and Mona Baker (University of Manchester, UK) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL11.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL11.pdf[/url] * Panel 12: Mediating religion: translation, censorship and conflicting identities Chair: Hephzibah Israel (University of Delhi, India) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL12.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL12.pdf[/url] * Panel 13: Contexts in translation education Chair: John Kearns (Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL13.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL13.pdf[/url] * Panel 14: Translation Technology and Conflict Chair: Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University, Ireland) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL14.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL14.pdf[/url] * Panel 15: Shaping Chinese modernity through translation Chair: LUO Xuanmin (Tsinghua University, China) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL15.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL15.pdf[/url] * Panel 16: Mediating the competing truth claims of testimonial Chair: Christi A. Merrill (University of Michigan, USA) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL16.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL16.pdf[/url] * Panel 17: World literature and translation Chair: Brian Nelson (Monash University, Australia) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL17.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL17.pdf[/url] * Panel 18: Cognitive explorations of translation and interpreting processes Chair: Sharon O?Brien (Dublin City University, Ireland) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL18.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL18.pdf[/url] * Panel 19: Legal translation as mediation between legal cultures? Chair: Sieglinde E. Pommer (Harvard Law School, USA) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL19.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL19.pdf[/url] * Panel 20: Translation history: early translations and contemporary perceptions Chair: Andrea Rizzi (University of Melbourne, Australia) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL20.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL20.pdf[/url] * Panel 21: Global news, interpreting/translating and the projection of cultures Chair: Paul Thomas (Monash University, Australia) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL21.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL21.pdf[/url] * Panel 22: Interpreter training in the global context Chairs: Rebecca Tipton (University of Salford, UK) and Isabelle Perez (Heriot Watt University, UK) Download panel description from [url=http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL22.pdf]http://www.foxevents.com.au/Files/IATIS-09-PANEL22.pdf[/url] Key Dates • Deadline for submission of abstracts: Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 • Latest date for official notification of acceptance of abstracts: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 • Deadline for presenters to confirm participation by registering: Thursday, 30 April, 2009 Conference Language The official language of the conference is English Invited Speakers: Martha Cheung (Hong Kong) Michael Cooke, Rose Laynbalaynba and Merlyn Bandaynga (Australia) Francis Jones (UK) Jeff McWhinney (UK) ?ehnaz Tahir-Gürça?lar (Turkey)