The Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius) will hold its next international conference on 18-20 June 2018 in collaboration with IAMLADP’s Universities Contact Group (UCG). The conference will provide a forum for dialogue between scholars and practitioners with a common interest in legal translation and institutional translation settings more generally. It illustrates the Centre’s commitment to fostering international cooperation and advocating translation quality in the field.
The 2018 conference will combine keynote lectures, parallel paper presentations, a poster session and thematic roundtables, so that all participants, from high-level experts to translation trainees, can benefit from the exchange of experiences. Contributions on the following themes are welcome:
Problems, methods and competence in legal translation, including comparative legal analysis for translation
Terminological issues in legal and institutional translation
The use of corpora and computer tools for legal and institutional translation practice and research
Sociological and ethical issues in legal and institutional translation
Developments and implications of institutional policies of translation and multilingual drafting
Thematic specialisation in institutional translation (technical, scientific, financial, etc.)
Translation quality control, quality assurance and management practices in institutional settings
Court translation and interpreting
Legal and institutional translator training
We invite all interested individuals to submit their proposals on the conference topics. Institutional practitioners from UCG (IAMLADP) member organisations are also invited to submit proposals on the above topics, especially under thematic strands 2 to 8. Based on these proposals, thematic panels and roundtables will be organised to stimulate debate, and selected institutional partners will be invited to contribute to these sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
The online submission process is now open. The deadline for the submission of all proposals is 10 November 2017.
We welcome proposals for individual or collective contributions on the conference topics in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish for either of two formats: papers (for 20-minute presentations) or posters (of a maximum size of 100 x 120 cm). It will be assumed that the language of the abstract will be the language of the presentation.
A maximum of two proposals may be submitted per author.
Length of abstracts: between 200 and 250 words, excluding references.
To submit a proposal and for further information, visit http://transius.unige.ch/en/conferences-and-seminars/tc18/cfp/
