Friday, February 18, 2011

Conference at Forlì, 2012

Great news! At last a meeting about the topics dealt with on this blog.

First International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation,
17-19 May 2012 at Forlì, Italy
(see map)

Presented by the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures (SITLeC) of the University of Bologna at Forlì.


Keynote Speakers

Nigel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University, a leading British authority on language brokering

Brian Harris, Universidad de Valladolid, author of this blog

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Univerity of California at Los Angeles, a leading American researcher on language brokering

Gideon Toury, Tel Aviv University, a leading academic innovator of translation theory


Website for further information: click here on FORLÌ

Congratulations to Rachele Antonini of the University of Bologna for taking this iniative. I look forward to meeting as many of you at Forlì as possible.

Footnote: If any of you practitioners are thinking of attending the 1st ProZ.com Europe International conference, notice that it starts in Rome on May 21, just after the above conference.
See http://www.proz.com/conference/205?page=schedule.

3 comments:

  1. dear sir....
    i really find this blog very help full and very informative about the translation, thanks to share the information, and i hope that every one will find it very help full
    translation

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  2. I will definitely be there. I don't think I'll have anything to present given I still work on my PhD and does not have the capacity to start a new project, but it seems like a great opportunity for networking.

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  3. Dear Nazia and Tolken,

    Thank you for your encouragement. And from two such different parts of the world. It would be nice to meet you in person at Forlì.

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