The Università degli Studi di Parma invites submissions of abstracts (20 minutes for presentation, to be followed by 10 minutes for questions) to be scheduled in parallel sessions of the International Conference on Accessible Intersemiotic Translation, which will be held in Parma, Italia, from March 31st to April 1st, 2022.
Conference Theme
Access to the media and cultural content is a recognized right of all citizens, regardless of their physical conditions. New concepts have been developed since the end of the 20th century to respond to certain problems related to disability, such as ‘Design for All’ or ‘Universal Accessibility’. If at first the effort has been focused on the elimination of physical barriers, it has not been so evident when it has been a question of acting on those that refer to communication. In fact, people with hearing, visual and cognitive disabilities were left out of many audiovisual contents, for example. In the last years of the 20th century, Audiovisual Translation began to increase a large space in the so-called Translation Studies. On the one hand, these are contents whose meaning is constructed through to a multiplicity of codes, that is, they are multimodal texts; on the other hand, its focus is on the transmission of these contents to people with sensorial disabilities. Accessibility to cultural products (cinema, architecture, natural spaces, art in general) is carried out within the framework of intersemiotic translation. It is clear that collaboration between experts from different disciplines is necessary for a greater and better understanding the object of study.
This congress seeks to give visibility to the theoretical and practical development of Accessible Intersemiotic Translation. It aims to provide a space for discussions on theoretical and practical issues related to accessibility to cultural heritage. On the other hand, with this meeting we aim to open up interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers working in this field.
All abstracts should include the name, institutional affiliation and email address of the author(s), the paper title, and four-five keywords. The abstract should be approximately 750 words in length. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference scientific committee according to the following criteria: originality and/or importance of topic; clarity of research question and purpose; data sources; theoretical approach; analytical focus; relevance of findings if already available. We especially encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
Topics
Audio Description; Subtitling for the Deaf and heard of hearing; Other studies on Accessible Intersemiotic Translation
Keynote speakers
Manuel Asensi – Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
Frederic Chaume – Universitat Jaume I (Spain)
Jorge Díaz Cintas – University College London (UK)
Anna Matamala – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Scientific committee
Manuel Asensi Pérez (Universidad de Valencia)
Micol Beseghi (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Nicoletta Cabassi (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Laura Carlucci (Universidad de Granada)
Frederic Chaume (Universitat Jaume I)
Jorge Díaz Cintas (University College London)
Carlo Eugeni (University of Leeds)
Elisabetta Longhi (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Anna Matamala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Olga Perotti (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Jorge Torre Santos (Università degli Studi di Parma)
María J. Valero Gisbert (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Organizing committee
María del Mar Algora Wesolowski (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Serena Condreas (Università di Parma/Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
María Lax López (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Federica Luciano (Università di Parma/ Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Elisa Isabel Melero Jiménez (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Olga Perotti (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Jorge Torre Santos (Università degli Studi di Parma)
María J Valero Gisbert (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Registration fee:
- The early bird registration fee (by 20 March 2022) is 80 EURO. The late registration fee (after 20 March 2022) is 100 EURO.
- Students – free registration
Please check the Conference website for registration details (bank account, etc.).
Abstract Submissions
Submission deadline 25 November 2021 – 9 January 2022 (750 words + bibliographical references) All abstracts should include the name, institutional affiliation and email address of the author(s), the paper title, and four-five keywords.
Notification of acceptance 16 January 2022
Email abstract submissions should be sent to: congresotraduccionaccesible@gmail.com; traduzioneaccessibile2022@unipr.it
Conference languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
Organising institution: UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
Further information can be found here.