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#12th_ITC Program and Registration

#12th_ITC Program and Registration

  1. Check in at the Conference registration desk at QNCC
  2. If you've pre-registered for the event, show the confirmation email to the registration team. If you've not pre-registered, the team will assist you on the spot. We recommend that you pre-register for a faster check-in process.
  3. If you're planning to attend the professional workshops or movie screening, you need to confirm your attendance with the registration employee during check-in as the seats are limited. We confirm attendance at the registration desk on a first come first serve basis.
  4. Some sessions will be broadcasted live through HBKU YouTube Channel, press on the "click here to attend" link in the confirmation email for the live feed.
Interpreting:

Arabic (spoken and signed) and English interpreting to be provided in the plenary sessions and Arabic into English interpreting to be provided in the panels where panelists present in Arabic.

9:00 – 9:10 am

Opening Remarks

Dr. Amal Al-Malki, Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Dr. Hatem Mheni, Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council, QNRF
Auditorium 2 and live feed
9:10 – 10:30 am

Sparking the Discussion, Chair Dr. Mona Baker

  • Living in Two Languages: The Primacy of Translation, Dr. Ahdaf Soueif 
  • The Power of Creativity: Dynamics of Resistance and Cooptation in Cultural and Creative Industries, Dr. Ovidi Carbonell Cortes
  • Content Creation in New Digital Media and the Challenges of Translation, Dr. Hany El-konayyesi

Auditorium 2 and live feed
10:30 – 11:00 am Break

Exhibition Hall 2
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
(Parallel Sessions)		 Panel 1: Constructs, Genres, Artefacts of Creative Productions and Circulations, Chair Dr. Ali Almanna
  • Translation as a Tool of Creativity from Local Tales to Global Arts, Lina Serir
  • Translation as (Re)creation of a Vernacular Language: Mohya, a Tradaptator Before the Hour, Dr. Youcef Hatem
  • Poems of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī in English: Translation, Creativity, and Transformation Across Borders and Eras, Dr. Rawad Alhashmi
  • Translation as a Means of Creativity, Dr. Fatima Latim (in Arabic with interpreting)
Meeting Rooms 218-219
Panel 2: Affect, Emotions and the Politics of Creativity, Chair Dr. Deborah Giustini
  • Creativity in the Audience’s Reception of Translated Fansubs, Juerong Qiu
  • Translation Crowdsourcing Initiatives: Quality Concerns and Ethical Implications, Dr. Eman Barakat
  • Interpreting in Encounters with Trafficked Women in Spain: Creative Strategies from the Experience of Interpreters and Associate Professionals, Elisa Barbero Valderrama
Meeting Room 215
Panel 3: New Trends in Transcreativity and Transmediality: Translation as Mediation, Chair Dr. Mahmoud Hirthani
  • Transadapting Western Picture Books Into the Arabic Culture: The Finnish Snow Queen and the Qatari Desert Queen, Alreem Al-Adba
  • Intertitles: The Creative Ancestor of Subtitles, Yasmine Mechairia
  • Accessibility Through the Lens of Qatar Museums: Taking Stock, Malak Latrous
  • Exploring the Phenomenon of Fansubtitling in the Arab World: The Case of Anime, Yasmin El Ali
Meeting Room 216 and live feed
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch

Exhibition Hall 2
2:00 – 3:30 pm
(Parallel Sessions)		 Panel 4: The Reconfiguration of Aesthetic and Political Forms of Translation in Digital and Non-digital Environments, Chair Dr. Rashid Yahiaoui
  • Theoretical Linguistics Meets Translation: On Linguistic Creativity and Linguistic Humor, Dr. Julio Villa-García and Dr. Lucía Prada González
  • Translation and the Memescape: Questioning Contemporary Cultural Reproduction, Dr. Jan Buts
  • When Rhythm Becomes Resistance: Transcreating Songs in Arabic, Marwa Aldous
  • The Importance of Diacritics in Arabic Machine Translation, Dr. Ruqaya Al-Taie
Meeting Room 215
Panel 5: Multimodality, Transmediality and Intersemiotic Translation, Chair Dr. María Jiménez
  • Transcreation: An Original Form of Translation Protected by Copyright. Or is it?, Dr. Orieb Masadeh-Tate
  • Translating the Kosovo War in Museums. The Role of Textual Elements in the Process of Building National Narratives in Museums, Dr. Katarzyna Jarosz
  • From the Architectural Brief to the Completed Architectural Project: Multimodality, Semiotic Systems and Intersemiotic Translation in Modern Architecture, Opeyemi Adewale
  • Translation and Creativity in Literature, Cinema and Museums: The Interconnected Cases of The Museum of Innocence and The Innocence of Memories, Irmak Mertens
Meeting Room 216 and live feed
3:45 – 6:30 pm
Movie Screening and Q&A: The Translator, with Dr. Rana Kazkaz, Chair Dr. Julie Boéri

Auditorium 2
3:45 – 7:00 pm
(Parallel Sessions)		 Seats are limited. Attendance is confirmed at the registration desk on a first come first serve basis. Creative Sports Writing and Editing Workshop
by Nabeel Rashid

Meeting Room 215
Post-editing in a CAT Tool Environment
by Wahba Youssef

Meeting Room 216

9:00 – 10:30 am

Keynote Address: Collaborating on The Translator: Films in Translation and Translation in Films, Chair Dr. Dalia Mostafa
By Dr. Rana Kazkaz and Dr. Julie Boéri

Auditorium 2 and live feed
10:30 – 11:00 am Break

Exhibition Hall 2
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
(Parallel Sessions)		 Panel 6: The Concept of Creativity in and Beyond Translation Thought, Chair Ghanimeh Saleh al Taweel
  • Translation as Event in Superdiverse Societies: Learning From a Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Pym
  • Translation as mediation: The Role of Translators in The Success of Knowledge Transfer, Mohamed Erebih
  • NMT Verb Rendering: A Cognitive Approach to Informing Arabic-into-English Post-editing, Dr. Ali Almanna
  • Philosophical Creativity and the Dilemma of Translation, Dr. Sufian Saadallah (in Arabic with interpreting)
Meeting Rooms 218-219
Seminar: Translation and Creativity in Arabic: Modes, Limits and Dynamics, by Dr. Mahmoud Alhirthani

This seminar discusses the concept and the practice of creativity in Arabic/English translation at different levels of lexis, structure, and style in literary and non-literary productions. It explores different modes creative translational practice (e.g. formation, deviation, recreation) and focuses on the dynamics of creative acts in translation and the constraints that restrict them. The seminar will first provide an overview of the topic and will then delve into authentic examples of creative translation. Participants will be encouraged to contribute to the discussion and to dialogically sketch out the foundational, current and future trends of creative translation.

Meeting Room 216 and live feed
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch 

Exhibition Hall 2
2:00 – 3:30 pm Closing Session: Synthesis and Future Horizon, Chair Dr. Joselia Neves
  • Dr. Ahdaf Soueif, Author and former member of British Museum Board of Trustees
  • Dr. Ovidi Carbonell Cortes, Full Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain
  • Dr. Hany El-konayyesi, TV Journalist

Auditorium 2 and live feed
3:45 – 7:00 pm
(Parallel Sessions)		 Seats are limited. Attendance is confirmed at the registration desk on a first come first serve basis. Creative Sports Writing and Editing Workshop
by Nabeel Rashid

Meeting Room 215
Post-editing in a CAT Tool Environment Workshop
by Wahba Youssef

Meeting Room 216

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