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NZSTI Conference 2013 - Tauranga, NZ

NZSTI Conference 2013

At the Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club

 28-30 June

PROGRAMME
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*Early Bird period now closed

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NZSTI's Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday, June 30, 3.30pm
Attendance is free of charge even if you have not attended the conference. 

We look forward to seeing you in Tauranga.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF TRANSLATORS & INTERPRETERS INC

Tauranga, New Zealand, 28~30 June 2013

WORDS, MEANING, INFERENCE AND INTENTION

CONFERENCE 2013 ~ A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME

Peter Tuffley

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The programme is still in the process of coming together – but to whet your appetite, here is a foretaste of what you will experience in the lovely seaside city of Tauranga.

If you arrive on Friday 28 June, you will be able to enjoy a Welcome Party at “No. 1 The Strand”, relaxing with colleagues and friends over drinks and plentiful.

The conference will open on Saturday 29 June at the Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club with a keynote address from Dr Uldis Ozolins of the University of Western Sydney, where he holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship. Dr Ozolins played a leading role in the creation of AUSIT’s new Code of Ethics, which is scheduled for adoption at our AGM and will thus become the first Australasian code of ethics for translation and interpretation.

Two other excellent presenters from Australia will also feature in the programme.  Judy Saba, from the Cultural Diversity Team of the New South Wales Police, will be discussing issues in the use of interpreters in the policing context and beyond. Christian Schmidt, a freelance practitioner, will be giving a translation theory workshop

Dr Ineke Crezee will share with us insights gained from developments in the training of health interpreters. If her presentation is as informative and lively as the one she gave at last year’s AUSIT Conference, then her audience will be in for a treat.

Hyden Toonen, a translation company owner from Christchurch, has presented at a previous conference on business-related issues; but this time he will be giving a paper based on research he is doing for a PhD, in which he will be talking about the translation of foreign books in Japan during the period 1633-1868 when that country was closed to the outside world.

Claire Loftus Nelson will chair a panel discussion on the subject of "Working with Project Managers in Translation Agencies".

This session will be primarily for relatively new translators who are at an early stage of building their business. It will focus on operational details of working for translation agencies (not direct clients), based on prior input from project managers about working with translators, to enable us to take the initiative in a productive, profitable and pleasant relationship. We will also hear from a panel of experienced translators. 

Peter Low, who teaches translation at Canterbury University, has been a frequently-enjoyed presenter at past NZSTI Conferences. His paper this year, “From Bad Joke to Perfect Rendition? Ethical Questions in Literary Translation” airs some ethical questions in literary translation, as seen
through one particular controversial case. It is a notable case, a story of both blatant travesty and subtle distortion, which highlights certain assumptions that translators have sometimes made.

Another Peter (Peter Tuffley) will be giving a paper entitled: “Translating, Editing, and Conflict: Two Historical Case Studies”.

The programme will also feature another frequent contributor, Dr John Jamieson. The papers John presents are unfailingly thought-provoking as well as entertaining, and “Surpassing St Augustine?” promises to live up to this record. John writes: “In this paper I argue that along with the words we see on the page there are implied patterns of emphasis and structural links between them - and that these differ between different languages.”

The Conference Dinner will be at the “Collar & Thai” restaurant – the first time in at least twelve years that the great cuisine of Thailand has been on our Conference menu!

There are still some vacant slots in the conference programme, so if you have an idea for a paper you would like to present please contact me (ptuffley@xtra.co.nz or peter.tuffley@gmail.com).

Conference Fee Structure*Early Bird period until (and including) 7 June