Transius Conference 2015

Geneva 24 - 27 June 2015

The joint conference will provide a forum for dialogue between scholars and practitioners with a common interest in legal translation and institutional settings of translation more generally. It will be the first of a new series of conferences organised by Transius following the long tradition of the Geneva school of Legal Translation Studies. This initiative illustrates the Centre’s renewed commitment to fostering international cooperation and advocating translation quality in the field.

The 2015 conference will combine keynote lectures, parallel paper presentations, a poster session and several thematic roundtables, so that all participants, from high-level experts to translation trainees, can benefit from the exchange of experiences. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

problems and methods of legal translation in professional settings
terminological and lexicographical issues in legal translation
legal translation competence and professional profiles
sociological and deontological issues in legal translation
the use of corpora and computer tools for legal translation
the role of translation in multilingual lawmaking, law application and adjudication
interdisciplinarity of legal and institutional translation
economic and financial translation in institutional settings
scientific and technical translation in institutional settings
quality assurance and management practices in institutional settings
Roundtables with speakers from various organisations will focus on the last four topics.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Confirmed: Susan ŠARČEVIĆ and Łucja BIEL

LANGUAGES
Keynote speeches: English.

Roundtables: English or French.

Paper and poster contributions: English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Valérie DULLION
Diego GUZMÁN BOURDELLE-CAZALS
Fernando PRIETO RAMOS (convenor)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Anabel BORJA ALBI (Jaume I University), Łucja BIEL (University of Warsaw), Le CHENG (Zhejiang University), Valérie DULLION (University of Geneva), Jan ENGBERG (University of Aarhus), Annarita FELICI (University of Cologne), Mathilde FONTANET (University of Geneva), Jean-Claude GÉMAR (University of Montreal and University of Geneva), Sonia HALIMI (University of Geneva), Anne LAFEBER (United Nations), Karen MCAULIFFE (University of Exeter), Fernando PRIETO RAMOS (University of Geneva), Colin ROBERTSON (Council of the European Union), Susan ŠARČEVIĆ (University of Rijeka), Catherine WAY (University of Granada).

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS
We welcome proposals for individual or collective contributions on the conference topics in either of two formats: papers (for 20-minute presentations) or posters (of a maximum size of 100 x 120 cm).

Proposals should include the author’s name, affiliation and email address, and a 250-300 abstract in Word format (Arial, Cambria or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced). The file should be named “2015_Author’s Surname_Paper/Poster” and sent as an attachment to transius@unige.ch by 18 October 2014.

A maximum of two proposals may be submitted per author. It will be assumed that the language of the abstract will be the language of the presentation.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 18 October 2014
Notification of acceptance: 21 November 2014
Early registration: 1 October – 15 December 2014
Standard registration: 16 December 2014 – 31 March 2015
Late registration: 1 April – 31 May 2015
Conference dates: 24-27 June 2015
REGISTRATION AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION