8:30 - 9:00 am

Registration & Coffee

9:00 - 9:10 am

Opening Remarks

Dr. Amal Al-Malki, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University

Auditorium 2

9:10 - 10:30 am

Sparking the Discussion, chaired by Ahmed Albanyan

• Translation, Politics, and the News, Khaled Al-Maeena
• Public Service Interpreting as a Factor of Social Change, Anna Gil Bardaji
• The Social Impact of Audiovisual Translation: Past, Present and Future, Pablo Romero-Fresco

Auditorium 2

10:30 - 11:00 am

Break

Exhibition Hall 2

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel 1: Ideology and Political Narratives, Chair Sue-Ann Harding

• Women, Cars and Ideologies: The Socio-dynamics of Cross-Linguistic Representations of the Saudi Human Rights Discourse, Zafer Tuhaitah
• Translating Political Satire of the Egyptian Revolution into English, Hanem El-Farahaty
• Cross-Cultural Political Discourse Translation: A Comparative Study of Different Translations of the Arab Spring Presidential Speeches, Asmaa Alduhaim
• Translating political cartoon in time of Arab wars/conflicts, Adila Benaouda (in Arabic)

Meeting room 105

Panel 2: Audiovisual Translation, Chair Rashid Yahiaoui

• "My interpreter": Journalists and the Invisibility of Fixers, Benoit Leger
• The Role of Translators in Transmitting "Semiotics" to Arabic in the Modern Era, Lamya Khelil (in Arabic)
• Audiovisual Translation in the Arab World v.06 (The Literature Review), Muhammad Gamal
• The Issues and Challenges of Translating Non Verbal Communication on Screen, Chinni Kumar Nandi

Meeting room 106

Panel 3: The Enhanced Translator: Developments in Professional Practice, Chair Christopher Rundle

• Translation Studies (and the translation profession) as Enlarged by non-professional Translation, David Orrego-Carmona
• Problem solving in translation from scratch and post-editing, Jean Nitzke
• Preparing Translators and Interpreters for a New Translator-Computer and Translator-Information Interaction Era: Lessons from Interactive Translation Dictation, Julian Zapata
• Beyond post-editing: The future of computer-aided translation, Samuel Läubli

Meeting room 103

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Lunch

Exhibition Hall 2

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Panel 4: Translators in Cultural Representation and Literary Practice, Chair Tarek Shamma

• The Representation of the Translator in the 21st-Century Turkish Literature, Volga Yılmaz Gümüş
• Inventing the Japanese as a nation: Role of translation and translators in the modernization of Japan in the late 19th century, Mutsuko Tsubo
• Taha Abdul Rahman: a Theorist of Philosophical Translation, Abdullah Bin Sirjan (in Arabic)
• The Creative Impulse of Two Scheherazades, Anna Ponomareva

Meeting room 105

Panel 5: The Role of the interpreter in media and conflict, Chair Joselia Neves

• Community Media in South Africa: Translation as tool for Development, Marlie van Rooyen
• The Role of Interpreters in Influencing Narratives of the Libyan Conflict, Muman Saleh
• Driving to interpret; a case study of Arab interpreters in Kerala, Muhammad Vasil
• Corpus-based Research Utilizing Interpreter-mediated Press Conferences in Japan, Kayo Matsushita

Meeting room 106

3:30 - 6:30 pm

Workshops:

Translation Ethics: Identification, Analysis and Response to Ethical Issues in Translation

Ahmed Alaoui

Meeting room 103

Practices and Benefits of Translation in Legal, Health Care and Community Areas

Nabeel Rashid

Meeting room 104

8:30 - 9:00 am

Registration & Coffee

9:00 - 10:30 am

Panel 6: Citizen Media, Chair Mona Baker

• Translation and Interpreting in Social Movements’ Communication and Organizational Policy, Julie Boéri
• Wikipedia and Its Not-so-collaborative Volunteer Translation Networks, Henry Jones
• Translation and Art Activism: The Case of Arab Hip Hop, Stefania Taviano

Meeting room 106 / Auditorium 2

10:30 - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel 7: Community and Conference Interpreting, Chair Dr. Ovidi Carbonell

• Community translation in Greece: communities without translation, THEODOROS VYZAS
• Tell me the story is and do not leave out anything": Translating victims' statements in South Africa, Sue-Ann Harding
• HEALTHCARE INTERPRETING IN TURKEY, OLCAY ŞENER
• A Practical Approach to Learning Interpreting from English, French and Spanish into Arabic, Bachir Mahyub Rayaa (in Arabic)

Panel 8: Translator and Interpreter Education and Training, Chair Ashraf Fattah

• Role of Translators and Contextual Factors in the Development of Translation Studies in Arabic, Jamal Mohamed Gaber Abdalla
• The translator as social and ideological mediator: integrating the Social Dimension of the Translator in translator training programmes, Evanthia Saridaki
• Developing translation competence: teachers' and students' cognitions and practices, Di Wu
• A corpora-based approach for training EFL student translators and interpreters: moving beyond bilingual dictionaries and intuition, Awadalkareem Alhassan

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Lunch

Exhibition Hall 2

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Closing Session: Synthesis and Future Horizon, chaired by Ahmed Albanyan

Khaled Al-Maeena,Anna Gil Bardaji , Pablo Romero-Fresco

3:30 - 6:30 pm

Workshops:

Translation Ethics: Identification, Analysis and Response to Ethical Issues in Translation

Ahmed Alaoui

Meeting room 103

Practices and Benefits of Translation in Legal, Health Care and Community Areas

Nabeel Rashid