5º INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE on PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING and TRANSLATION
CALL FOR PAPERS
As a way to continue with the
effort and success of the 7th Critical Link conference and some
other actions all around the world to connect and organize community
interpreters, we invite you to submit a proposal for the 5º TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE on PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING and TRANSLATION to be hosted at
the University of Alcalá (UAH) (Madrid, Spain) next April 2014 (4th
-5th April 2014).
This conference is intended
to offer PSI&T researchers, practitioners, trainers, academics, public
service authorities and people who are generally interested in intercultural
communication and in translation and interpreting, a forum for dialogue in this
changing society, as well as an opportunity to exchange opinions and comment
projects and experiences like the previous ones, held in 2002, 2005, 2008, and
2011.
Being
the main theme of the Conference: (Re)visiting Ethics and Strengthening
Connections we encourage all those who are interested in it to send
proposals on the following topics (but not restricted):
1.
Discussing ethical issues in
both research and teaching.
2.
Studying interpreters and
translators in conflict
3.
Interpreting and translating
for victims of war, sexual assault, survivors of
torture and trauma, etc.
4.
Eexploring
connections with other types of interpreting such as conference interpreting
or court interpreting
5.
Analysing advances in PSIT
between local, national, and international institutions
The
Conference will include plenary lectures, papers, seminars, posters and round
tables. Participants delivering papers will have a maximum of 30 min (the
discussion/questions time included). The official languages will be Spanish and
English.
All
those who are interested in participating are kindly asked to send a 200-word
abstract before November 30th, 2013 using the following
webpage: http://tisp2014.tucongreso.es/en/presentacion.
The decision of the Scientific Committee will be sent by
December 10th, 2010.
Proposers
whose papers are accepted and want their paper to be published in the
proceedings they will have to submit the WHOLE PAPER TEXT by 20th
of January 2014 using the same webpage, otherwise they WILL NOT BE
INCLUDED IN THE CONFERENCE´S PROCEEDINGS which will be ready by the time of the
Conference.
Looking
forward to seeing you in Alcalá!
FITISPos
Group-University of Alcalá
C/ Trinidad, 3
28801- Alcalá de Henares
Tel. (+34) 918 855 309
