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Translation and context: Perspectives on and from Africa Current scholarship, whether in the humanities, social sciences or natural sciences, seems to agree that knowledge, or aspects thereof, is in some respect(s) relative to context, to a greater or lesser extent. With this as point of departure, one can argue that context, conceptualized as an environment determined by (a) particular time(s) […]

TechLING is an international conference devoted to the application of technology to language teaching, translation and interpreting. We are looking for contributions that present novel technology-based approaches, both academic and non academic, to the study, use and commercialization of language-related solutions/applications. Proposals are expected to report on results achieved through the combination of linguistic approaches and technology, involving one, two […]

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ACT/Unlimited! 2 Symposium Quality training, quality service in accessible live events The ACT project for its final conference is teaming up with the Unlimited! Symposium, which will take place in Barcelona on June 6th 2018, at the Residència d’Investigadors (Hospital, 64, 08001 Barcelona). Google Maps link. The ACT project is working on the definition of a new professional profile, that of the “Media Accessibility […]

A key activity of the UMAQ project is the organisation of an international conference on “Understanding Quality in Media Accessibility”. Call for Papers The UMAQ Conference:  “Understanding Quality in Media Accessibility” (5 June 2018, Barcelona). Media Accessibility (MA) is the research area dealing with the theories, practices, services, technologies and instruments that seek to provide universal access to media in […]

PANEL 12 PANEL 12: Advances in Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies: Theoretical Models and Applications Panel Organizers: Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds) Binhua Wang (University of Leeds) Meifang Zhang (University of Macau) Discourse analysis in its various forms (language use above the sentence, meaning-making in whole texts in specific social and cultural contexts) deals with the entire act of linguistic […]

PANEL 06 PANEL 06: Museum Translation: Encounters across Space and Time Panel Organizers: Min-Hsiu Liao (Heriot-Watt University) Sharon Deane-Cox (University of Strathclyde) The panel will address the conference theme “translation and cultural mobility” in the specific context of museums. Museums are important sites of intercultural encounter, bringing visitors into contact with the tangible and intangible traces of other peoples, spaces […]

ACT/Unlimited! 2 Symposium Quality training, quality service in accessible live events The ACT project for its final conference is teaming up with the Unlimited! Symposium, which will take place in Barcelona on June 6th 2018, at the Residència d’Investigadors (Hospital, 64, 08001 Barcelona). Google Maps link. The ACT project is working on the definition of a new professional profile, that of the “Media Accessibility […]

Thematic panels are groups of papers organized around a particular sub-theme. The list of panels is available below and the details of the each panel can be found by clicking the links. To access the call for papers of thematic panels, please click here. PANEL 01: At the Interface of Cognition and Multilingual Communication PANEL 02: Grounded Theory in Translation […]