The Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is now accepting submissions for its 10th Annual International Translation Conference.
The two-day event is scheduled to take place on March 26 and 27, 2019, and will be hosted at the Qatar National Convention Centre.
TII welcomes submissions from academics, practitioners and community members who are invested, through theory or practice, in addressing the theme of this year’s conference, which is ‘Translation beyond the Margins’.
Past conference editions have seen participation of hundreds of celebrated local and international experts, speakers and scholars within the translation and interpreting fields, HBKU has said in a statement.
The notable personalities who gathered in Doha and contributed to a platform for knowledge-sharing, as well as the effective exchange of ideas and research, included novelist Fadia Faqir, managing director of AJ+ Dima Khatib, and Professor of Translation and Filmmaking at the University of Roehampton, Pablo Romero-Fresco.
Additionally, Professor Emerita of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, Mona Baker, was a recent participant in TII’s conference. The list of speakers in previous conferences also extended to include Professor of Translation and Language at the New Sorbonne University Fayza El Qasem as well as the executive director of Digital at Al Jazeera Media, Dr Yaser Bishr.
Dr Amal al-Malki, founding dean of CHSS, said: “The theme for the 10th Annual International Translation Conference will centre on marginalisation as a key challenge within the translation and interpreting field. We invite all interested applicants to submit abstracts of their papers exploring these issues in their own unique angles – whether cross-disciplinary or in a broader sense – in order to lay the foundation for pertinent discussions at the conference.”
The thematic areas for the 10th Annual International Translation Conference include, but are not limited to, new territories, new landscapes in translation studies and practices; crossovers in interpreting, audiovisual translation, transcreation, self-translation; convergence and divergence between translation, adaptation and mediation; and translation beyond censorship and taboo.
The conference also invites applicants to submit papers exploring translation beyond the margins, tackling rarely addressed industry issues and translation challenges across varying sectors and disciplines.
The paper can also touch on topics beyond translation studies’ domain of enquiry (methodologies, epistemologies and theories), and innovations in research and application, analysing practices such as collaborative translation, crowdsourcing, and fan-based translation.
Submissions of abstracts should be at least 300 words, in either English or Arabic – which are the official languages of the conference – and must include an introductory statement on the significance of the study, a short description of the basic methodology adopted, a clear indication of the findings of the study, and the thematic area chosen from among those suggested for this edition of the annual conference.
Submissions must also include the applicant’s institutional affiliation, contact information and a short biography of no more than 100 words. The deadline for submission of papers is October 25.
Selected attendees will have an opportunity to present their papers at the conference in the course of 20 minutes, and respond to questions posed by their peers and the audience over a 10-minute period.
Prospective participants interested in submitting a proposal for the 2019 conference may do so online at www.tii.qa/10th
