PACTE (Process of Acquisition of Translation Competence and Evaluation) is organising the Fourth International Conference on Research into the Didactics of Translation (didTRAD), which will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 20-22 June, 2018.

This conference aims to provide a forum for researchers in the field of translator training.

Conference Topics

Teaching translation: introduction to translation; legal translation; scientific-technical translation; literary translation; audiovisual translation; localization; inverse translation, etc.

Teaching interpreting: simultaneous interpreting; consecutive interpreting, community interpreting, etc.

Teaching signed languages interpreting and translation.

Teaching technologies for translators and interpreters.

Teaching language for translators and interpreters (L1 and L2).

Teaching professional aspects.

Cross-cutting aspects of curriculum design: tutorials, final-year dissertations, placements, etc.

Deadline: January 14, 2018. Follow this link for more information on how to submit your abstract:

http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/pacte/en/content/abstract-submission

Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2018.

Further information: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/pacte/en/secondcircular2018