The Department of Translation Studies at the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates is organizing a three-day international
Conference on Translation and Interpretation and the Impact of Globalization, to be held at a Hotel (Al Ain) from November 18-20, 2008.
The Conference link is http://www.fhss.uaeu.ac.ae/Conference/call_for_papers.html.
Conference Objectives: The main goal of the conference [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPANTS
Congreso Internacional de traducción/Interpretación Hyeronimus ‘08, Xalapa, Veracruz
Esta es una invitación para que asistan al Congreso Internacional de traducción/Interpretación Hyeronimus ‘08. Lugar: Hotel Xalapa (Altamirano y Bustamante Zona centro), Xalapa, Veracruz. Días: 1-4 de octubre 2008
Tema central La traducción y/en los medios. Temas adicionales: traducción especializada, traducción literaria, pedagogía de la [...]
The Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna announces three Job announcements:
1. Full Professor of Translation Studies (full-time permanent position under private law). The position is dedicated to all areas of translation studies, translation theory and fields of translational activity. Applicants should have their main focus of research in one of the [...]
With the beginning of the new year, Facebook launched its new crowdsourcing application for translations, allowing its users to provide free translations for its webpage. While this approach to translation will no doubt save the company millions of dollars, it will also no doubt introduce many errors, bugs, and questionable solutions, also at a considerable [...]
On April 1, 2008, I was invited to give the Cecil and Ida Green Honors lecture at the Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth where I spoke on “Translation and Cultural Politics in the USA” to an audience of 80-100, mostly students in the modern languages department.
The talk was well received. I gave some [...]