Department of English and American Studies
Translation and Interpreting Section
Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

is pleased to invite you to the

Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc 2024

Since 2011, when it was held for the first time, the Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc has established itself as an open platform which is not limited only to an academic exchange within translation and interpreting studies research but embraces discussion with all players in the field of cross-language communication (see archive for TIFO 2022, 2019, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2011).

The 2024 conference theme “Technological turn in translator and interpreter training“ would like to adress the issues of educating and training translators/interpreters in the “Age of AI”. The featured guest speakers for TIFO 2024 are Kilian Seeber (Université de Genève) and Gary Massey (Zurich University of Applied Sciences). We welcome proposals addressing, without limitation, the following topics:

• The role of traditional methods: pen and paper gone for good?
• Developing human added value in language services
• Cooperative learning in and outside the classroom
• Post-editing NMT: best practices and efficient training
• Digital literacy of trainers and trainees: match, or mismatch?

Selected papers are to be published in a peer-reviewed thematic volume. Publications from previous TIFO conferences are available here: 2022, 2019, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2011. See also OMLM Vol. 4 on TQA (in Czech).

To accommodate numerous requests, we are making a 2nd call for papers with the deadline for abstracts extended to September 10, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by September 17, 2024. Registration deadline for audience has been extended to September 30, 2024.

Detailed programme of the conference will be available when the call for papers has been closed and the abstract review process finished.

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Arts, Křížkovského 10, Olomouc (see on Google Maps).

Hana Pavlisová
Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Arts, Palacký University
Křížkovského 10, Olomouc 771 80
Phone: +420 776 105 717
e-mail: tifo@upol.cz

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