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*3rd Conference of the International Association for Translation and
Intercultural Studies (IATIS)*
*Monash University, Melbourne, Australia*
*8-10 July, 2009*
*CALL FOR PAPERS (General Conference and Special Panels)*
We are inviting proposals for papers for the 2009 IATIS Conference. The
deadline is *Wednesday, 17 September 2008*.
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
http://www.foxevents.com.au/Current-Events/2009-Events/IATIS-Conference/Default.asp
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
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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
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Dr Rita Wilson
Convenor, Translation and Interpreting Studies
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Monash University
Clayton Campus
Victoria 3800
Australia
tel: +61 3 99055825
fax: +61 3 99055437
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/translation-interpreting/
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