Doha: The Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII), in partnership with Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, will host the fifth annual Translation Conference on April 13-15 next year at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC).
The conference aims at developing translation and interpreting knowledge in Qatar and the region.
Dr Amal Al Malki, Executive Director of TTI, said: “The annual conference attracts academics, students and professionals from all over the world. We continue to promote translation and interpreting as scholarly and professional activities and create intellectual spaces for knowledge exchange and training.”
She said students of Master’s in Translation Studies and their colleagues in the region and beyond will be exposed to current trends in the translation discipline and will attend vocational workshops.
Given the tradition of exchange and translation in the Gulf, the conference is interested in papers that focus on translation as it relates to travel narratives in and beyond the region, development and modernity, translation revival in the GCC, and efforts to document and preserve Gulf Arab heritage, oral traditions, and culture in new global context.
Dr Moneera Al Ghadeer, Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research at TII, said: “The fifth conference recognises the Gulf as a site of global flows in which trade, cultural movements, languages, and migration produce a process of translation.
“The conference encourages scholars to rethink these remarkable moments of cultural and linguistic encounters to examine how, in turn, they have generated translation flows, traversing from West to East and vice versa.”
The deadline for submission of papers is January 15, 2014. All applicants should have an institutional affiliation, contact information (including email) and an abstract of 200 to 250 words.
Accepted papers will be allocated 30 minutes in the conference’s programme, which will include 15-20 minutes for presentation and 10-15 minutes for discussion.
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