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The IV International Conference Translating Voices, Translating Regions will be held in Senate House, University College London, UK on 3-4 October 2014.
 
The conference convenor Dr Federico M. Federici is pleased to announce the conference programme below.
 
 
 
The conference is organized by the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) at University College London in collaboration with the Centre for Intercultural Mediation at Durham University.
 
 
 
For further details, please visit the conference website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/centras/translation-news-and-events/conference-translating-voices.
 
 
 
IV International Conference Translating Voices, Translating Regions 

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/centras/translation-news-and-events/conference-translating-voices
 
Mediating Emergencies: Intercultural Mediation in Extreme Conditions
 
Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK
 
 
 
Programme
 
Day 1 – 3 October 2014
 
                    

09.20-09.30     

Opening: Convenor’s Welcome             

09.30-10.30     

Keynote talk, Barbara Moser-Mercer, Université de Genève, Switzerland    TBC 

 
 
BREAK: 10.30-10.45
 
 
 
Session 1
 
10.45-12.15     

Jan Cambridge, Chartered Institute of Linguists, UK., ‘Working in Crisis. Training for Crisis, Two Case Studies’
 
Veronica Razumovskaya, Siberian Federal University, Russia & Olga Bartashova, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics, Russia ‘Translator’s and Interpreter’s Challenges of the 21st Century in the Russian Arctic: Mediating Emergencies’
 
Edina Spahic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ‘Role of Interpreters in Conflict Sitations’
 
 
 
LUNCH: 12.15-13.15
 
 
 
13.15-14.15
 
Keynote talk, Yasuhide Nakamura, Osaka University, Japan    TBC
 
 
 
Session 2
 
14.15-15.45     

Patrick Cadwell, Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland, ‘How Foreign Nationals Experienced Cultural and Linguistic Mediation in the Great East Japan Earthquake’
 
Valeria Tonioli, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, ‘Italy Health Literacy and Mediation: a Model to Communicate Efficiently in Intercultural Contexts in Situations of Emergency’
 
Antoon Cox, Vrije Unversiteit Brussel, Belgium, & Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, University of Alcala, ‘Spain Interpreting in the Emergency Department. Challenges for the Practice and the Training’
 
BREAK: 15.45-16.15
 
 
 
16.15-17.15
 
Keynote talk, Christina Schäffner,  Aston University, UK, ‘Who is Talking to Whom?  Mediating Emergencies as Challenges to Public Translation Studies’
 
 
 
Session 3
 
17.15-18.45
 
Leïla Kherbiche, Université de Genève, Switzerland & Carmen Delgado-Luchner, Université de Genève, Switzerland , ‘Is There a Humanitarian Interpreter?’
 
Aymil Dogan, Hacettepe University, Turkey & Kate Hughes, Heriot-Watt University, UK, ‘Anybody there? Emergency and Disaster Interpreting in Turkey’
 
Graham H. Turner, Heriot-Watt University, UK, ‘The Role of Interpreters in Improving Supply Chain Response and Logistics Activities in Disasters’
 
 
 
Session 4
 
09.30-11.00
 
Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK & Angela Crack , University in Portsmouth, UK ‘ ‘Listening Zones’ and the Work of NGOs/Humanitarian Agencies in Crisis Areas’
 
Pekka Snellman, Finnish Defence Forces, Finland, ‘Military Interpreter Training for Crisis Management Operations’Research in Multilingual Disaster Settings: Why Translation Matters
 
Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland & Igor Matic, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, ‘Research in Multilingual Disaster Settings: Why Translation Matters’
 
 
 
BREAK: 11.00-11.30
 
 
 
11.30-12.30
 
Keynote talk, Erik Hertog, Lessius University College, Antwerp, Belgium, ‘Interpreters in Conflicts. Conflicts in Interpreters’
 
 
 
LUNCH: 12.30-13.30
 
 
 
Session 5
 
13.30-14.30
 
Laura Parrilla Gomez, University of Málaga, Spain & Manuel Verdugo Páez, Health Service, Canary Islands, ‘Technological Support in the Healthcare Field: the Case of Immigration in the Canary Islands’
 
Zeinab Jaber, Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon, ‘(Mis)translating the Voice(s) of Combatants: A Case Study of the Representation of Islamist Militants Fighting in Syria in Pro-Regime and Pro-Opposition Media Outlets’
 
 
 
ROUNDTABLE ‘Mediating Emergencies: Intercultural Mediation in Extreme Conditions’
 
14.30-14.45
 
Jean-Pierre Verleysen, Director for Resources in DGT, European Commission, Belgium
 
14.45-15.00
 
Brian Fox, Director for Provision of Interpretation, European Commission, Belgium
 
15.00-15.15
 
Noël Muylle, Honorary Director-General, European Commission, Belgium
 
 
 
15.15-15.30
 
Open Discussion
 
 
 
15.30-15.45
 
Alexander Perkins, Campaigner for military Interpreters, UK
 
15.45-16.00
 
Michael Kelly, University of Southampton, UK, ‘Learning lessons in mediation from the UN/NATO intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina’
 
 
 
BREAK: 16.00-16.30
 
 
 
Session 6
 
16.30-17.30
 
Keynotes, Roundtable Speakers, Convenor, ‘Roadmap: Where do we go from here? Future events, plans, and projects’
 
 
 
17.30 Conference Close

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