__ / 2nd Athens International Conference on Translation and Interpretation \ _

2^nd Athens International Conference on Translation and Interpretation

Teaching and Researching the Practice:

Professional Identity, Translation/Interpretation Education, New Technologies

October 10-11, 2008

Conference Chair: Leonidas Phoebus Koskos

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & PROCEEDINGS

Friday, October 10, 2008

09:30 -10:00 OPENING SESSION

Conference Chair

Leonidas Phoebus Koskos (.pdf 17kb)

Executive Director of the Hellenic American Union

Opening by Chris Spirou,

President of the Hellenic American University

10:00 - 13:35 MORNING SESSION

Professional Identity – Education – New Technologies *************** Chair: Christine Niakaris**
10:00-10:25	Juliane House	Translation as a Third Space Phenomenon (abstract) Translation as a Third Space Phenomenon (.pdf 23kb)
10:25-10:50	Christian Nord	Jack of all things, master of none? - The translator’s professional and cultural identity and how it is developed in translator training
10:50-11:15	Anastasia Papaconstantinou	Translating Politics: Action-Reaction-Interaction (abstract) Translating Politics: Action-Reaction-Interaction (.pdf 144kb) Presentation (.pdf 84kb)
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:10	Clare Donovan	The Interpreter and Interpreting as the Same or Other: An Issue for Training? (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 361kb)
12:10-12:35	Douglas Robinson	The Proprioception of the Body Politic: 'Translation and the Phantom Limb' Revisited (abstract) The Proprioception of the Body Politic: 'Translation and the Phantom Limb' Revisited (.pdf 200kb)
12:35-13:35	Coffee and Snacks

13:35 – 17:25 AFTERNOON SESSION

Professional Identity – Education – New Technologies ******* Chair: Juliane House**
13:35-14:00		Peeter Torop	Identity of translation: methodological aspects (abstract) Identity of translation: methodological aspects (.pdf 49kb) Translation as Communication and Auto-Communication (.pdf 277kb) Handouts for the Audience (.pdf 71kb)
14:00-14:25		Sieglinde Pommer	The identity of the Legal Translator
14:25-14:50		Maria Sidiropoulou	The Translator as a Social Scientist: The T.E.G.MA (Translated English-Greek Material) Compilation Project (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 639kb) Paper (.pdf 370kb)
14:50-15:15		Willis Edmondson	The Interaction Between Target Text and Source Text: Pedagogic Implications (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 110kb)
15:15-15:45		Coffee Break
15:45-16:10	Jan Parker			Translators’ Professional Identity
16:10-16:35	Margaret Rogers			Translation Studies and Applied Linguistics: A synergistic view of some research issues (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 93kb)
16:35-17:00	Mark Shuttleworth			Teaching Localisation Skills via E-learning? (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 494kb)
17:00-17:25	Judy Wakabayashi			Histories of Translation: Training Future Scholars

Saturday, October 11, 2008

10:00 – 14:30 MORNING SESSION

Professional Identity – Education – New Technologies ***** Chair: Willis Edmondson**
10:00-10:25	Christopher Candlin	Discourses and Discourse Study: Explorations in Shared Professional Identities Among Translators and Applied Linguistics (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 752kb)
10:25-10:50	Elzbietta-Muscat Tabakowska	Teaching the impossible: grammar, culture and “idioculture” in literary translation (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 117kb)
10:50-11:15	Uwe Reinke	Translation Technology and Translation Ethics - Two Incompatible Bedfellows (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 2.7mb)
11:15-11:40	David Connolly	Literary Translation Skills: Taught or Caught?
11:40-12:10	Coffee Break
12:10-12:35	Dieter Rummel	The Translator’s Candy Shop - The EU Terminology Database IATE
12:35-13:00	Sharon O’Brien	Challenging Translation Technology (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 268kb)
13:00-13:25	Hassan Hesham & Marina Kritsotaki	The Translation of Yusif Idris's Short Stories into Greek: HAU Workshop 2008. First Approach" (abstract) Presentation (.pdf 270kb)
13:25-13:50	Jean-Yves Bassole	Cohérence et Vraisemblance Dans l’ enseignement de la Traduction (abstract)
13:50-14:15	Julie Johnson	Broadening interpreters-in- training into discerning, proactive practitioners
14:30	End of Conference

Program & Proceedings