Sign the petition: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-university-of-salford-please-reconsider-closure-of-the-school-of-humanities-languages-and-social-sciences

Professor Martin Hall,
Vice-Chancellor,
University of Salford,
Lancashire, M54WT,
United Kingdom.

Dear Professor Hall,

As a group of international scholars in the field of Translation and Intercultural Studies we urge you to reconsider your plans to disestablish the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Salford University in the United Kingdom and close down its language, linguistics, translation and interpreting degree provision, on UG and PG level, over the next few years. 

The Summer School is running 22-26 July in central London (all details are on: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european/about-us/use-your-language-use-your-english/summer-school-2013). To apply, complete the booking form at https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/european/.

The closing date for applying for a £100 bursary is on Friday 26 April 2013, just four weeks away now!

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University of Surrey -School of English and Languages

The Master program in Arabic-English Translation and Interpretation (MATI) at the American University of Sharjah organizes an annual symposium to function as a forum in which MATI students and faculty present their research to AUS community and academic community at large. This is the fourth year the symposium is organized. This year the program hosts two international scholars.

9 am on Thursday 28 March, Main Hall.

For more information see: http://www.aus.edu/mati_symposium

This event was organised by the IATIS Training Committee. It took place on 30 January 2013 and was hosted by the University of Salford. The workshop attracted over 8o registrations and was led by Myriam Salama-Carr and Cristina Mendes da Costa (Salford), with Rebecca Tipton (Manchester) and Svetlana Carsten (Leeds) as main speakers. Feedback was very positive and the initiative commended by the participants. We are grateful to all IATIS colleagues who had an input into the content and organisation of the online event. A recording of the event can be accessed here for a limited period: http://vle.salford.ac.uk/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBPBLACK/guest.recording.launch.event?uid=e32e2026-06d8-4a92-99eb-cf528074034c). It will later be archived as part of the IATIS resources and will be accessible by IATIS members only.

The inaugural Singapore International Translation Symposium 2013, held on 1-2 February 2013, was the first major public translation-related event to be held in Singapore.

The main objective of this symposium is to raise awareness about the role of translation in society, take stock of the current state of the translation industry and market, and exchange experiences and best practices with translators and translation organisations in other parts of the world.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

24 June – 5 July 2013, Piran, Slovenia

Guest Lecturer 2013: Dr. Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University

Petition against the transferral or closure of the Translation Studies Unit

IATIS members and visitors to the site are encouraged to read and sign this petition, in solidarity with colleagues at Imperial College London.

The Quarterly Newsletter of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interperters is now available and full of interesting news, including a conference/event calendar. Click here to download it.

As the conference has been upgraded from a national to an international event, it is rescheduled to be a three-day event, held on 30 April to 02 May 2013 at Pardisan Five Start Hotel, Mashhad, Iran hosted by Imam Reza International University, Mashhad, Iran.