Training Translators and Interpreters Today: Perspectives and Evolutions

Training Translators and Interpreters Today: Perspectives and Evolutions
December 2-3, 2024
Aula Seminari, IULM 1

Increasingly efficient technologies and Artificial Intelligence have radically changed the profession of interpreters and translators and have triggered a transformation process involving these professional figures. Procedures, tools, the use of IT support, work contexts, and types of output required have all changed. The convergence of different modes—writing, speech and sound, audiovisual media, multimedia—has also become all-pervasive, requiring translators and interpreters to understand the semiotic complexity of texts, navigate different codes, and, above all, respond to the new demands of a highly diversified market.

Training translators and interpreters today is a complex task, which can only rest on the results of rigorous scientific research that investigates the directions of change, keeping pace with an extremely rapid evolution. This conference adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, encouraging the exchange of ideas among scholars of Translation and Interpreting Studies, audiovisual translation, linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, discourse analysis, language teaching, and IT applied to translation and interpreting, in order to understand how best to orient the training of future professionals in the sector.

Scientific Committee

Giuliana Garzone, Francesco Laurenti, Elena Liverani, Mara Logaldo

Organizing Committee

Valentina Baselli, Francesca Bauce, Fabrizio Gallai, Eleonora Gatto,
Marta Muscariello (coordinator), Federica Villareale

Info: [email protected]

The conference is organized within the project “Translation and Interpreting on the Move: variation in contexts, modes, media and technologies” approved and funded by the Department of Humanities for 2024. This project is a follow-up to research carried out since 2019 investigating the evolution and diversification of translation and interpreting activities in the contemporary world under the impact of new media and technologies. The event is organized with the collaboration and support of the International Center for Research on Collaborative Translation.

Download the Call for Proposals here

Download the flyer here

Download the programme here

Download the book of abstracts here

PLENARY    DECEMBER 2: https://go.iulm.it/translators021224
ROOM 152 - DECEMBER 2 : https://go.iulm.it/translators021224-152
PLENARY    DECEMBER 3 : https://go.iulm.it/translators031224
ROOM 157 - DECEMBER  : https://go.iulm.it/translators031224-157

The conference is part of the Badge of Honour activities. The activity is intended for students enrolled in degree programs of the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation.

In order to obtain the completion of the honour activity, it is necessary to attend 2 half days out of the four scheduled days, as you choose.

Below is the structure of each of the 4 half days:

1. December 2 morning: Keynote speech 1 + Session 1 + Session 2

2. December 2 afternoon: Keynote speech 2 + Session 3 + Session 4

3. December 3 in the morning: Keynote speech 3 + Session 5 + Session 6 + Keynote speech 4

4. December 3 afternoon: Keynote speech 5 + Session 7 + Session 8

For Graduate Courses in the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation, attendance at least 2 half days will correspond to the completion of 1 of the 4 (Master's degrees) or 6 (Bachelor's degrees) activities for the purpose of earning the Badge of Honour.

Attendance will be tracked via the IULM Lectures app.