Call for papers

We are currently accepting abstracts for papers.

Researchers, scholars, and PhD students interested in presenting at the conference should send their abstract to the following e-mail address: prague [at] ff [dot] cuni [dot] cz

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 March 2009.

Abstracts may be a maximum of 300 words and are to be written in English.

You will be informed of whether your abstract has been accepted by 15 May 2009 at the latest.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Examining and critically assessing traditional world views/paradigms (e.g. East and West) with respect to translation
• Innovative or provocative theories and/or methods in translation and interpreting studies
• Translation history: documenting and narrating past world views/paradigms (e.g. East and West) through translation
• Translation studies from the viewpoint of philosophy, literary theory, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, etc.
• Russian Formalism/Prague Structuralism as a source of western translation studies concepts and theory
• Interpreting in teams at EU institutions: interpreters from the East and the West – challenges, knowledge gained, new research in the profession, and translator training
• Community interpreting and its role in assisting foreign nationals, immigrants and asylum seekers
• Issues relating to localization, globalization and internationalization

We reserve the right not to accept abstracts received after the deadline or abstracts longer than 300 words.

Following the selection procedure, the papers will be grouped according to themes and placed in special panels or sessions at our discretion.

Regular papers should be presented in English.

Plenary session presentations may be in English, Czech, German, French, Spanish, or Russian. Interpreting services into English are available for the plenary session. If you would like to have your presentation interpreted for the plenary session, please contact our interpreting team at the following address: prague [at] ff [dot] cuni [dot] cz.