Deadline for Paper Submissions: Translation in the Digital Age
Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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Deadline for Paper Submissions: Translation in the Digital Age: From Translation Tools to Shifting Paradigms

12Nov2017

About the Event

HBKU’s Translation and Interpreting Institute, within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is accepting research abstracts for participation in its Ninth Annual Translation Conference, held under the theme of Translation in the Digital Age: From Translation Tools to Shifting Paradigms.

Participants are encouraged to submit research abstracts of at least 300 words, to be considered for full participation in the conference.

Thematic areas include (but are not limited to):

  • Arabic translation in the digital age
  • Translation and activism: online translator communities 
  • Collaborative translation 
  • Multimedia, and hypermedia translations 
  • Translating/communicating the digital humanities
  • The changing face of the translation market: crowdsourcing, outsourcing fansubbing/fandubbing and non-professional translation 
  • Online databases and corpora 
  • Translation productivity software, ‘chunking’/micro-translations, collaboration tools and quality control
  • New developments in machine translation 
  • Censorship/manipulation in a digital age 
  • New landscapes beyond translation proper
  • Transadaptation and transcreation

All proposals will be reviewed by a panel of experts, who will determine their validity for participation.

The deadline for submissions is November 12, 2017. The conference takes place on March 27 and 28, 2018.

To submit your proposal online, and for more information about the conference, visit www.tii.qa/en/9th