The next EST Congress will be held from 29 to 31 August 2013 in Germersheim (University of Mainz, Faculty for Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies). The title of the congress will be:
Translation Studies: Centres and Peripheries
As Holmes states in his seminal paper “The Name and Nature of Translation Studies”, our discipline establishes institutions and discourses around which groups of researchers gather, exchange ideas and develop new theories and models. The growing number of training and research institutions for Translation Studies and of journals and book series focusing on translation research, the expanding territory of expert forums and blogs on the worldwide web as well as the numerous conference announcements from all over the world are clear indications of an ever increasing interest in the discipline. Whereas research, teaching and theory were initially mainly based in European contexts, promoted under European influence and shaped according to European theoretical perspectives and translation policies, nowadays approaches to translation from different geographies all over the world have been gaining more and more ground. Besides its own ‘internal’ impetus, Translation Studies has been receiving growing attention from scholars in other disciplines. The Germersheim EST conference is designed to provide a framework for discussing centre-periphery relations within the discipline from a multifaceted angle: centre-periphery relations concerning the objects of research, the discourses of Translation Studies, and the links between Translation Studies and other disciplines.
Call for Proposals for Thematic Sessions
The congress will be organised around a series of thematic sessions or panels. Each thematic session should include at least three speakers and will be presented and conducted by a session moderator (or two co-moderators). Each session should be dedicated to a clearly defined topic related to the general topic of the conference and structured around a pre-determined set of questions, formulated by the session moderator. The moderator will be responsible for specific publicity concerning the session, inviting papers, selecting presenters, and proposing the list of selected presenters and abstracts for approval by the Scientific Committee. To submit a panel proposal, the moderator does not have to be a member of the EST.
If you would like to moderate or co-moderate a specific thematic session, please submit a short description of the proposed session, indicating the theme and some possible speakers. The proposal should be of at least 500 words with 5 keywords.
PROPOSALS SHOULD BE ENTERED HERE
A Call for Papers for the individual sessions will be launched by the EST Congress Organisers
after notification of acceptance, and moderators are free to publicise their session after that general launch.
The conference languages will be English and German.
Deadlines
| 30 April 2012 |
Deadline for session proposals |
| 1 June 2012 |
Notification of acceptance (sessions)
Open call for papers goes out |
| 1 November 2012 |
Deadline for paper abstract submissions |
| 1 March 2013 |
Notification of acceptance (papers) |
Scientific committee
Fabio Alves, Sebnem Bahadir, Dilek Dizdar (Chair), Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Chair), Camilla Miglio, Carol O’Sullivan, Franz Poechhacker, Nike Pokorn, Aline Remael, Pilar Sanchez-Gijon, Michael Schreiber
Local organizing committee
Sebnem BahadIr, Dilek Dizdar, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Lavinia Heller, Sascha Hofmann, Andreas Kelletat, Bernd Meyer, Tomasz Rozmyslowicz, Michael Schreiber (Chair)
Publication
A selection of contributions will be published as a volume of proceedings.
Venue
The conference will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim. The most convenient way to travel to Germersheim by plane is via Frankfurt Airport which serves the most international destinations in the world. With its frequent flight schedules it offers many alternatives for connections from all international airports. Note that the location of Germersheim and its railway connections to cities like Mannheim or Karlsruhe provide a wide range of alternatives for those travelling from cities in Europe.
Contact
Website: http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/est/index.php
Email: est2013@uni-mainz.de
