The Institutes and Departments for Translation and Interpreting, established in Europe after World War II, are celebrating their fiftieth and sixtieth-year jubilees and the new academic discipline of Translation Studies is already half a century old. This is a good occasion and a good reason to take stock of the development and the state of art of Translation Studies. The 1st International Conference TRANSLATA "Translation & Interpreting Research: Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow", which will be held at the Institute for Translation Studies at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria), aims to bring together experienced and young scholars of Translation and Interpreting Studies as well as trainers and practitioners to explore and discuss the following issues:

• Translation Studies: development – problems – solutions – open questions
• basic issues of traditional translation research and new questions
• new approaches, paradigms and theories
• the subject of Translation Studies
• multi-/interdisciplinarity in Translation Studies
• scientific methodology in Translation Studies
• changes in the global world and challenges for translation theory and translation practice
• general translation theory versus specific theories for literary translation, specialised
• translation, audiovisual translation, interpreting
• process and result of literary translation, specialised translation, audiovisual translation,
• interpreting
• semantic theories and meaning in translation and interpreting
• the linguistic, cognitive, communicative, cultural, technological dimensions of translation and
• interpreting
• relevance and application of translation theory for quality standards and quality assurance in
• different kinds of translation
• multilingualism, especially in the education of translators

After the successful 10-year long tradition of the "International Innsbruck Lectures on Translation Studies" and the International Summer Schools "SummerTrans" held in Innsbruck, Saarbrücken and Vienna the 1st TRANSLATA International Conference aims to have a new impact on fundamental translation and interpreting research whilst offering a forum for broad exchange between researchers, teachers and practitioners. On the basis of recent and new research results as well as lively discussion between established researchers and newcomers to the discipline, the conference hopes to provide new insights into the different kinds of translation and interpreting activities, at the same time gaining ground on the way to scientifically-based quality standards in translation and interpreting. The papers of the conference will be published – as with the International Innsbruck Lectures on Translation Studies – in the series "Forum Translationswissenschaft".

The Working Language of the conference will be German, but papers are welcome in German, English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Participation is open to scholars, students and teachers in the field of Translation Studies, translators, translation companies, interpreters, linguists, terminologists, publishers etc.

Abstracts:

We are inviting proposals which deal with one or more of the issues identified above. Papers are allotted 20 minutes for presentation followed by 10 minutes discussion.

Please submit your abstract stating the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s), complete postal address and e-mail address of the author(s) by using the registration system of the TRANSLATA-website: www.translata.info or the contact:

Deadlines:

Submission deadline for abstract (400 words max.): 15th October 2010
Notification for abstract acceptance: 15th November 2010

Registration fees:

Early bird registration fee (deadline 31st December 2010): € 80
Student: € 60
Concession: € 40
Fee includes: programme, abstract book; coffee, tea, juice and biscuits; publication of paper in the conference proceedings.

For further information on the conference please visit www.translata.info

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pöckl                                                                       Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lew Zybatow