IPCITI 2017 - Final Programme

Day 1 - Thursday 9^th November 2017
Edinburgh Business School (EBS) – North Pod
Heriot-Watt University

10:00 – 12:00

Pre-conference Workshop:

Ramon Inglada

‘CAT Tools: Welcome to the cloud-based (r)evolution’

MB.G11
(Mary Burton Building, Ground Floor, Room 11)

[free registration required;
email info.ipciti2017@gmail.com to register]

12:00 – 13:00

Registration and Coffee break

EBS North Pod Lounge

(please make your own arrangements for lunch)

13:00 – 13:15

Conference Opening and Welcome Speech
EBS North Pod

Robert MacIntosh
Head of School of Social Sciences
Heriot-Watt University

13:15 – 14:15

Keynote:

Ana Frankenberg-Garcìa
University of Surrey

‘The use of corpora in translation research’

14:15 – 15:45

Paper session 1

14:15 – 15:45

Theme: Translation Technologies
Chair: Paola Ruffo

14:15 – 14:45

Saadia Elamin

Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

'Optimising the use of Google Translate by translation undergraduates:

the case of English into Arabic'

14:45 – 15:15

Loïc de Faria Pires

University of Mons (UMONS-Belgium)

'Estimating the impacts of Machine Translation adoption
on the quality of texts provided by institutional translators'

15:15 – 15:45

Yuxiang Wei

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

‘Customising Machine Translation for academic texts:

issues of lexis and syntax’

 15:45 – 16:45

Coffee break
EBS North Pod Lounge

16:45 – 17:45

Paper session 2

16:45 – 17:45

Theme: Translation and Interpreting training
Chair: Michael Richardson

16:45 – 17:15

Helene Stengers

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

'Integrating virtual communication technology
in translators and interpreter training'

17:15 – 17:45

Jose Maria Conde and Fanny Chouc

Heriot-Watt University

'Mini-conferences:
a valuable tool in the training of conference interpreters'

20:30

Dinner at:

COSMO, Omni Centre,
Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3AA

[free for delegates, but confirmation required;
email info.ipciti2017@gmail.com to confirm]

Day 2 – Friday 10^th November 2017
Edinburgh Business School (EBS) – South Pod
Heriot-Watt University

09:00 – 09:30

Coffee break
 EBS South Pod Private Dining Room

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote Panel:

Graham Turner, CTISS, Heriot-Watt University

Claudia Angelelli, CTISS, Heriot-Watt University

Martin Gallagher, Police Scotland
Delphine Jaouen, NHS Scotland

‘Interpreting theory and practice in dialogue’

Chair: Christine Wilson
 EBS South Pod

10:30 – 11:30

Paper session 3

10:30 – 11:30

Theme: Interpreting and technology
 Chair: Emmy Kauling

10:30 – 11:00

Robert Skinner

Heriot-Watt University

‘Proximity interpreting: social construction of 101 VRS’

11:00 – 11:30

Michael Richardson

Heriot-Watt University

'The Sign Language theatre interpreter: human or machine?'

11:30 – 13:30

Lunch break
 EBS South Pod Private Dining Room

13:30 – 15:30

Paper session 4

13:30 – 15:30

Theme: Literary Translation
Chair: Nga-Ki Mavis Ho

13:30 – 14:00

Wenqian Zhang

University of Leeds

'Translator’s Style Coming Through the English Translation of Mo Yan’

14:00 – 14:30

Jinquan Yu

Bangor University

'The production and reception of Dylan Thomas's works in China'

14:30 – 15:00

Bushra Musleh

University of the West of England

‘Lexical selection and archaisms in three English translations of the Sūrat Yūsuf
(the Chapter of Joseph): a comparative linguistic and empirical investigation’

15:00 – 15:30

Paola Ruffo

Heriot-Watt University

‘Literary Translators’ perceptions of their role
and attitudes towards technology in contemporary society’

 15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break
 EBS South Pod Private Dining Room

16:00 – 18:00

Paper session 5

16:00 – 18:00

Theme: New Translation

Chair: Jafar Ahmad

16:00 – 16:30

Ashraf Abdel Fattah

Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha

'Trans-editing of 'hard news' reports
between construing events and constructing reality: a case study’

16:30 – 17:00

Chris Gordon

Queen’s University, Belfast

'Translation and risk in the age of post-translation studies'

17:00 – 17:30

Zafer Tuhaitah

University of Leeds

'Ideology and human rights discourse in the news: the case of Saudi women driving ban'

17:30 – 18:00

Eva Spišiaková

University of Edinburgh

'Translating the coming out: the birth of the LGBTQ Movement
in post-communist Czechoslovakia and the role of the translator'

 18:00 – 18:15

Closing remarks

 18:15 – 18:45

Coffee break
 EBS South Pod Private Dining Room

Evening informal networking event in Edinburgh