TRANSLATION AS A TOOL FOR INCLUSION/EXCLUSION IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Date:	20 June 2014 – 20 June 2014
Time:	9.00am – 5.30pm
Location:

Public service translation (also known as ‘community translation’) is emerging as an important, distinct sub-field in translation studies. Its focus on the translation of texts produced by public services for the benefit of speakers of less-established languages makes it a particularly relevant research area in today’s globalizing world. In a multicultural society decisions about what is translated – and how the translation is done – have far-reaching implications for the inclusion and exclusion of certain communities and/or community members.

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SPEAKERS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

• Clarisse Costa Afonso (New University of Lisbon)
  Socio-cultural diversity and translation: How accurate is the translation of cultures?
• Sarah Eardley-Weaver (Queen’s University Belfast)
  Opera translation and inclusion for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing
• H. Pierre Hsieh (University College Cork)
  The community translator as the cost controller — an economic perspective for translation studies
• Raquel Lazaro Gutierrez (University of Alcala)
  Analysis of healthcare videos  addressed towards migrant population in Spain
• Alice Leal (University of Vienna)
  The European Union and translation: monolingualism, multilingualism and English as a lingua franca
• Erin M. Lyons (BiomedNouvelle)
  A voice in the crowd: harnessing crowdsourcing translation applications for social good
• Katrina Mayfield (Cambridgeshire Constabulary)
  Translation as a communication tool in the police environment
• Daniele Orlando (University of Trieste)
  Legal translation as a human right: ensuring a fair trial through translation quality and training
• Carmen Pena Diaz (University of Alcala)
  PSIT as a social integration tool
• Maria Sierra Cordoba Serrano (Monterey Institute)
  Translation policies, community translation and community translation training in the US
• Claudia Sonaglio (University of East Anglia)
  Ideologies in cultural institutions: the role of translation in reproducing the museum’s voice
• Daniel Tomozeiu (University of Westminster)
  Challenges in defining “community” for community translation
• Brooke Townsley (Middlesex University)
  Community translation: an examination of practice and praxis
• Svetlana V. Vlasenko (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
  Where ‘fiscal’ Cannot Mean ‘financial’: including a Word – excluding the meaningful effort
• Catherine Vieilledent-Monfort (DGT)
  Language policy and public service translation: the case of European multilingualism
• Zhiwei WU (Guangdong University)
  Towards the professionalization of public service translators in China: education and certification

Speakers are to be confirmed. Full programme will be made available shortly.

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