A Practical Approach to Subtitling – a workshop with Dr Jorge Díaz-Cintas

ITIA CPD Event 17 September 2011 

A Practical Approach to Subtitling – a workshop with Dr Jorge Díaz-Cintas

Part 1: 11 am -12.30 pm and 12.45 pm to 2.15 pm
General Introduction to Audiovisual Translation and Subtitling

This session will start by offering an overview of the different types of translation that take
place in the audiovisual world, including accessibility to the media (i.e. subtitling for the
deaf and the hard-of-hearing and audio description for the blind and the partially sighted),
and will centre later on subtitling.

A definition of this professional practice will be offered as well as a survey of the different
types of subtitles in existence. The semiotics of subtitling, that is, the interaction between
text and images will be discussed and participants will learn about some of the issues that
constraint this particular form of translation.

We will then take a look at the different conventions applied in what is considered standard
practice in interlingual subtitling, and examples of strategies such as segmentation,
condensation and reformulation will be offered.

Towards the end of the session, there will be  time for  discussion regarding the changes
taking place in the professional world and the new audiovisual translation practices that are
cropping up in the market.


Part 2: 3.15 pm to 5.15 pm
The technical dimension of subtitling

This session centres on the technical dimension of subtitling, paying special attention to the
space and time constraints that define it. The different tasks pertaining to subtitling will be
illustrated, including spotting or cueing (i.e. deciding the in and out times of the different
subtitles) according to the limitations imposed by the medium. Concepts like safe area and
proportional lettering will also be covered.

During this session, a professional subtitling program will be demonstrated so that
participants can learn how the technical and technological dimensions of subtitling
impinge on the actual written result. An insight into the working environment will also be
presented and some time will be left at the end for questions.

A list of useful websites and other sources of information will be given to all the
participants.

Date/venue: Saturday, 17 September 2011, 11 am to 5.15 pm.
At the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Cost: €35 ITIA members (and members of other FIT associations); €45 nonmembers; €15 students/concession.

For further details please contact Annette at: cpd.itia@gmail.com

IRISH TRANSLATORS’ AND INTERPRETERS’ ASSOCIATION

CUMANN AISTRITHEOIRÍ AGUS TEANGAIRÍ NA HÉIREANN

Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA), 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland

T: +353 87 6738386; F: +353 1 8726282; 

E: itiasecretary@gmail.com ; www.translatorsassociation.ie

Translations, Perversions, Appropriations & Inventions

Translations, Perversions, Appropriations & Inventions

a reading by Trevor Joyce

Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. 

7.30 pm – admission free – all welcome

To mark International Translation Day 2011, the Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association, in
conjunction with the Irish Writers’ Centre, is proud to welcome Trevor Joyce, who will read from his
translations from Middle Irish, Chinese, and from the Hungarian, Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages,  as
well as his own original work.

Born in Dublin, in 1947, Trevor Joyce was brought up between Mary Street, in the city centre,
and the Galway Gaeltacht. Aged 19, he co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin with Michael Smith.
Joyce was also a founding editor of NWP's influential journal,  The Lace Curtain. By the mid-’70s he had
largely withdrawn from the Press to develop his own poetry down less familiar and frequented routes.
In Dublin and Oxford, in the early ’80s, he conducted seminars and lectured on classical Chinese
poetry, and visited the People's Republic of China as a poet at the invitation of the Chinese government in
1983. Having read Philosophy and English at UCD, he moved to Cork where he read Mathematical
Sciences in UCC. He worked for twelve years as a Business Systems Analyst with Apple Computer at their
European manufacturing facility in Cork, but since January 2000 has been a full-time writer.
Joyce has published eleven volumes of poetry, including The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976), his
working of the middle-Irish Buile Suibhne, and stone floods (1995), which was nominated for the  Irish Times
Literature Prize for Poetry. All these books have come through small presses, where openness to invention
compensates for lack of publicity, wide distribution or commercial promotion.

His most recent publications are  with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold: A Body of Work 1966–
2000 (NWP & Shearsman Books, 2001; 2nd edition 2003), a large collection from Toronto publisher The
Gig: What's in Store (2007), and a volume of translations, Courts of Air and Earth (Shearsman Books, 2008),

which was shortlisted for the Corneliu M Popescu Award for European Poetry in Translation 2009.
Founder and director of the  SoundEye  Poetry Festival  in Cork  since 1997, he held residencies
with Cork County Council (2001) and NUIG, (2001/2).

Joyce was a Fulbright Scholar for the year 2002–2003, and was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow
in Poetry to the University of Cambridge for 2009-10. He is a member of Aosdána, and has lived in Cork
since 1984.

IRISH TRANSLATORS’ AND INTERPRETERS’ ASSOCIATION

CUMANN AISTRITHEOIRÍ AGUS TEANGAIRÍ NA HÉIREANN

Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA), 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland

T: +353 87 6738386; F: +353 1 8726282; 

E: itiasecretary@gmail.com ; www.translatorsassociation.ie

International Translation Day, September 29th 2011

Translators and Interpreters: Experts for International Communication in Specialised Fields Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERPRETING THE FUTURE  

Translators and Interpreters: Experts for International Communication in

Specialised Fields

International Conference

hosted by the  

Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und  

Übersetzer e.V. (BDÜ)

Berlin, 28 – 30 September 2012

Encouraged by the success of the first conference, “Interpreting the Future”, which took place in
Berlin in September 2009 with around 1,600 people from over 40 countries attending, Germany’s
Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ) is planning a further three‐day
international conference for September 2012 on the subject of
Translators and Interpreters: Experts for International Communication in Specialised Fields.
Presentations, workshops, seminars, a trade exhibition, networking sessions and a job exchange
will be organised with the aim of bringing clients, authorities, university teachers, suppliers of
software tools, students and professional translators and interpreters closer together.
Interpreting and translating are expert activities, now more than ever before. The increasing
differentiation of disciplines and sectors of industry, and their corresponding terminologies, is also
requiring translators and interpreters to delve deeper and deeper into the subject of the texts they
are to translate or the matters they are to interpret. Pressure on prices and delivery schedules, and
rising quality standards, are also driving forces behind specialization: Translators who are experts in
the field or industry they address, and are familiar with its terminology, jargon and customs, can
deliver high quality translations at reasonable speed and are more likely to be regarded as equal
partners by their clients.

From 28 to 30 September 2012, the BDÜ will be hosting an international conference at the Henry
Ford Building of the Freie Universität Berlin to cast the spotlight on translating and interpreting as
expert professions and examine the challenges to be overcome in different specialisations.
Presentations and discussions will be simultaneously interpreted into German, English and French.
At seminars and workshops, language professionals will be able to study various specialisations,
bring their knowledge up to date or find out more about a specialisation they may be considering.
At the accompanying trade exhibition, the participants will be able to acquaint themselves with the
latest reference works, information management tools, translation memory systems and services for
translators and interpreters. In networking sessions and at the job exchange, interested language
professionals will be able to introduce themselves to prestigious companies and institutions and
make direct contact with potential clients and colleagues specialised in the same or complementary
fields.

Experts from the translating and interpreting professions and from the disciplines and industries
listed below are invited to submit proposals for presentations, seminars or workshops on the
following topics by 31 October 2011. Interpreters and translators as experts – interdisciplinary cross‐cutting topics
e.g. advantages and disadvantages of positioning as specialist/generalist, terminology work,
intercultural competencies knowledge management, new tools and technologies,
standardisation and quality standards, project management, self‐marketing as an expert.

 Translating technical documentation
 Translating in the IT sector, software localisation
 Translating and interpreting in the medical field
 Translating and interpreting in the legal field
 Translating and interpreting in the fields of business and finance
 Translating and interpreting in science and research
 Translating and interpreting in politics
 Translating and interpreting in the cultural and media sector
 Translating and interpreting in the fields of advertising, marketing and PR
 Public Service interpreting
 Translating patents
 Literary translation / Translation of non‐fictional and reference works
Prospective contributors are requested to submit an abstract of up to 2,000 characters at the
www.interpreting‐the‐future.com website by 31 October 2011. The languages for presentations are
German, English and French. The following event formats are planned:
 Presentations (max. 30 minutes, audience numbers as a rule unlimited); the individual
presentation blocks are followed by discussions between the speaker and audience.
 Panel discussions (90 minutes, audience numbers as a rule unlimited)
 Seminars (90 or 180 minutes, up to 250 participants)
 Workshops (90 or 180 minutes, up to 25 participants)

When submitting your abstract, please also indicate the knowledge level of the participants you
primarily wish to address: basics/beginners, advanced, or all participants. The accepted presentations
will be published in a book of the conference proceedings which will be available at the time of the
conference.

We will notify you as to whether your proposal has been accepted by 31 January 2012. The
detailed programme of the conference will be announced on 15 February 2012. The complete
presentations must be submitted by 01 July 2012 for inclusion in the published proceedings.

Further information can be found in the internet at www.interpreting‐the‐future.com. You can also
email us at konferenz2012@bdue.de.
Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer e.V. (BDÜ)
Berlin, 15.05.2011

Tradilinguas - Legal Translation Conference, 7-8 October 2011, Lisbon

LEGAL TRANSLATION CONFERENCE
	Organized by TRADULÍNGUAS and other legal translation professionals, the Conference will feature two full days of practical learning sessions -- translation and terminology workshops (in Portuguese, English, Spanish, more languages if possible) -- for the professional translator and interpreter of legal materials.
	Keynote Speakers Ingemar Strandvik Quality Manager Directorate A EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR TRANSLATION On behalf of the Cabinet of President José Manuel Barroso Pedro Andrade e Guerra LEGAL SERVICE EUROPEAN COMMISSION On behalf of the Cabinet of President José Manuel Barroso We are proud to announce that the TRADULÍNGUAS International Legal Translation Conference has been accredited by the following organizations as part of their Continuing Education Programs:   Are you ATA Certified? Earn up to 10 CEPs for attending this Conference. Attendees to the TRADULÍNGUAS International Legal Translation Conference who are certified by the American Translators Association (ATA) are eligible to earn up to ten (10) Continuing Education points (CEP’s), the maximum allowed for any individual event. Are you a member of ITI? Claim up to 2 CPD days for attending this Conference. Members of the ITI – Institute of Translation & Interpreting (UK)can claim 1 ITI CPD day for each day of the Conference attended. Contact education@iti.org.uk for further information, and copies of the CPD Record booklet.
	Is this Conference for you?
	Yes, we believe it is! Specially, if you are an experienced translator and interpreter working with legal-related subjects. There will be plenty for you to see, learn, and discuss. Young translators will gain valuable information about their profession and in many specialized fields of knowledge in this highly-requested segment of the language industry. Market your services by displaying your résumés, brochures, and business cards while meeting with owners and managers of participating companies. Find qualified legal translators and interpreters, post job listings, peruse the résumés on display, and meet potential employees or freelancers in person.
	Job Marketplace and Network Opportunities
	Freelance and in-house translators and interpreters will be able to market their services by displaying their résumés, brochures, and business cards while meeting with owners and managers of participating language services companies. Companies, hoping to find qualified translators and interpreters, can post job listings, display their corporate brochures, peruse the résumés on display, and meet potential employees or freelancers in person. Take advantage of this opportunity to market your services to colleagues and potential employers attending the Conference. Display your résumés, brochures, and business cards, or post job openings available in your company... and bring enough for everyone!
	Sponsorship Opportunities
	The TRADULÍNGUAS International Legal Translation Conference will be a unique opportunity to promote your company to a select audience of specialized translators and interpreters and other operators within the legal language services community! Several options available!