Remit
The main tasks of the Social Media and Outreach Committee are:
- the creation of an online interactive IATIS community where members can promote their interests
- the efficient management of the IATIS website
- the active presence of IATIS on social media so that news and activities are disseminated all over the world
- the identification of appropriate news items, events and announcements to be hosted on the website and social media
- the investigation of ways in which online presence for IATIS and its members can be increased
- the creation of an online newsletter devoted to latest news, events and announcements to be sent to IATIS members regularly
The Committee reports to the IATIS Executive Council.
Composition
MARIJA TODOROVA, Chair of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
Hong Kong Baptist University and University American College Skopje
Hong Kong and North Macedonia
marija[dot]todorova[at]gmail[dot]com
Maria Todorova has worked as a translator/interpreter of English and Macedonian since 1998 for many national and international organizations and participated in the translation of the Acquis Communautaire in North Macedonia. She was awarded the National Translation Prize and the Winter Book Fair Translation Award for her translations of children’s literature. She is the co-editor of Interpreting Conflict: A Comparative Framework (Palgrave 2021) and author of The Translation of Violence in Children’s Literature: Images from the Western Balkans (Routledge 2022). Dr Todorova is editor of New Voices in Translation Studies. She is Research Assistant Professor at HKBU and Adjunct Assistant Professor at UACS.
LI-WEN CHANG, Member of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
stone0718[at]gmail[dot]com
Li-Wen Chang is a Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Her research interests include interpreting studies, social semiotics, multimodality, and social media. She is also a practising translator, specializing in the translation of literature, religion, and spirituality. She translated dozens of books from English into Chinese, including The Hand That First Held Mine, A Secret Kept, Rose, Proof of Heaven, Small Miracles, The Monks and Me, etc.
EDWARD CLAY, Member of the IATIS Social Media and Outreach Committee
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
e.clay.1[at]bham[dot]ac[dot]uk
Edward Clay is a Teaching Fellow in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has a PhD in Translation Studies, a BA in French and Linguistics from the University of Sheffield and an MA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Bath. His current research encompasses translation and language change, corpus linguistics and legal translation.