Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Second Call for Papers

The Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh is delighted to announce an international conference on Translation and interpreting in an era of demographic and technological change, to be held in Edinburgh on 30 and 31 May 2018.

Open to all, the conference immediately follows the members-only General Assembly of CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d'Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes www.ciuti.org ) and is intended to create a common space for reflection on translation and interpreting issues. The conference language is English.

Confirmed keynote speaker:

Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University

Key dates

· Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2018

· Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2018

· Registration open: 28 February 2018

· Early-bird registration available until: 31 March 2018

Topics

We invite papers related but not limited to the following translation and interpreting (T&I) areas:

· T&I in the digital economy

· T&I and new technologies

· Accessibility issues in T&I (e.g. data sharing, maintenance, copyright)

· New methodologies in T&I

· Multimodality in T&I

· T&I and the media

· T&I and literature

· T&I in the public sector

· T&I in politics and law

· Ethics, equality and diversity in T&I

· T&I in education

Submissions are invited for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 400 words (excluding references) and clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Please submit your abstract as a file attachment including the title of the paper, author name, affiliation and e-mail address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The subject header of the submission email should read: Abstract CIUTI.

Further details will soon be available via http://www.ctiss.hw.ac.uk/research/conferences1.html.