Thursday, March 28, 2019

Upcoming Conferences on Professional and Non-Professional Interpreting


A bit belatedly – for we are already at the end of March – a conference has been announced for early October on the topic that occupied our first two posts this year, namely the centenary of professional conference interpreting. (To retrieve those posts, enter centenary in the Search box on the right.)

Title: 100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Theme: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Dates: 3-4 October 2019
Organiser. University of Geneva
Place: Headquarters of the International Labour Organization, Geneva.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April
Registration: from 1 May
Attendee fee: 100-150 Swiss Francs
Website: click [HERE] or go to https://unige.ch/fti/conf1nt100/conference-theme/. There's a video on that site.

It’s fitting that the venue is Geneva, where so much of the early development of the profession took place at and around the League of Nations between the two World Wars and the prestigious training school was established in  1941. It’s appropriate too that one of the keynote speakers is to be Jesús Baigorri, formerly of the United Nations and the University of Salamanca, who is the leading historian of that period.

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At the opposite end of the spectrum of professionalism comes NPIT5.

Full Title: 5th International Conference on
Non-Professional Interpreting and Translating 
Theme
: Bridging diverse worlds: expandig roles and contexts of non-professional interpreters and translators 
Dates: 24-26 June 2020
Place: University of Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science
Deadline for submission of individual papers, posters and panels:  15 September 2019
Address for submissions: npit5conference@outlook.com
Cair and contact person: Barbara Schouten
Website: click [HERE] or go to http://www.npit5.com
 

Long-time Followers of this blog may recall our posts on the earlier conferences in this series, which which was founded by Rachele Antonini and her team at the University of Bologna in 2012.To retrieve them, enter NPIT in the Search box. I’m glad to see Rachele is on the Advisory Board for this one.

By reaching a fifth edition, this conference comes one step further to bringing NPIT into the mainstream of translation studies. Thesis students, take note.

Source: CenTraS-Inter Translation News

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