3rd IATIS CONFERENCE - MELBOURNE 2009

[Alexandra Smith]

  3rd IATIS CONFERENCE - MELBOURNE 2009
International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)
(http://www.iatis.org) <http://www.iatis.org/>

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT


  IATIS is delighted to announce that the 3rd Conference of the International
Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies will be hosted by the
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia, from July 8th to 10th, 2009.

The Conference theme will be Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture
in a Global Context and a first call for papers and panel proposals will be
issued in 2007.

The Local Organizing Committee, chaired by Rita Wilson and Brigid Maher of
the Monash Translation and Interpreting Studies Programme, has plans for an
exciting academic and social programme, and the conference will be preceded
on July 7th by a workshop on broadcasting in a multilingual and
multiplatform digital environment, run by SBS, Australia's multicultural and
multilingual public broadcaster.

Prospective participants may also be interested to know that IPrA's 11th
International Pragmatics Conference will take place in Melbourne from July
12th to 17th, 2009, making 'back-to-back' conference attendance feasible for
many.

Updates on the conference will be posted on the IATIS website www.iatis.org
<http://www.iatis.org/> .

IATIS
iatis at iatis.org



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-511381
fax: +44- (0) 650-3604
e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk

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