The 2nd International
Media for All Conference - Text on screen, text on air, aims
to bring together professionals, scholars, practitioners and other interested
parties to explore audiovisual translation (AVT) in theory and practice, discuss
its linguistic and cultural dimensions, and investigate the relevance of translation
theory for this very specific yet quickly expanding translational genre. It
is also interested in initiatives promoting cooperation in AVT between the business
and the educational worlds.
Special attention will be devoted to accessibility issues, since the conference
organisers are especially interested in the progress being made in turning today’s
elitist information society into an information society “for all”.
Markets worldwide are changing fast, with distribution policies and strategies
being shaped by political decisions and economic factors beside audience expectations
and needs. Contributions investigating the social and economic implications
of making accessibility an a priori fact of life rather than a necessary evil
are therefore welcome.
Through papers, panels, and round-table discussions dealing with such issues,
we hope to be able to promote new perspectives, reflecting and anticipating
the developments of our rapidly changing times.
Text on screen, text on air will take place in Leiria and it
will be the first AVT and accessibility conference ever in Portugal.
The 2 day conference (8–9 Nov) will be preceded by one
day of optional Workshops (7 Nov).
A Forum on AVT Research will be held on the evening of 7 November.
This is an open space for people who are interested in academic research in
AVT for the discussion of issues such as finding a research topic, structuring
a research project, finding funding, writing a PhD dissertation, pursuing postdoctoral
studies, publishing academic papers, running for prizes and obtaining scholarships.
Themes
Translating for Audiovisual Media (Subtitling, Dubbing, Voiceover, Interpreting, Fansubbing, Surtitling…)
Media Access (Subtitling for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, live subtitling, audio description, sign language interpretation)
Cultural Access (Translation and access services for live arts, museums, events and tourist sites)
Video Games Localisation
Mobile Content (Translation and access services for multimedia mobile content)
Tools and technology (Developments and new tools for translators, media access provision and training)
Didactics, training and skills (Teaching/Training objectives and environments for audiovisual researchers, teachers, students, translators and media access providers)