Preliminary draft programme

Presentations by local, interstate and overseas speakers on medical and legal interpreting, stress management for interpreters, cross-cultural awareness, ethical issues, literary translation and “trans-creation”, machine translation and CAT tools, editing and proof-reading, office ergonomics, subtitling, translation theory, linguistics, training and quality management. 

 

Thursday 4 November

Time:   TBA      Watercooler Group Meeting
Venue: TBA

Friday 5 November
Venue: The University of Notre Dame

 8:30                      Registrations, morning coffee

 9:30                      Welcome To Country          
                               Conference Opening by Professor Carmen Lawrence

10:00                     Keynote lecture
                               Prof. Paul R. Frommer
                               University of Southern California

11:00                     Plenary presentation: SBS Subtitling
12:00                     Lunch
  1:00                     Concurrent sessions
  2:45                     Afternoon tea
  3:15                     Concurrent sessions

 

  7 pm:                   Conference Cocktail Dinner 
Venue:                    Fremantle Maritime Museum.
                     

Saturday 6 November

  9:15                     Jill Blewett Memorial Lecture 

 

10:00                     Plenary presentation by Frank Palmos
10:45                     Morning coffee
11:15                     Parallel plenary sessions:
                                                              Ethics in interpreting
                                                              Literary translation
 1:00                       Lunch
 2:00                       Concurrent sessions
 3:45                       Cheese and wine

 

 5:00                       National Annual General Meeting of the Australian Institute of Translators and Interpreters Inc.