Politehnica Advanced Center for translation Studies – PoliCAT, Politehnica University Timisoara

 16-17.11.2023


Provisional programme:

THURSDAY, 16.11.2023

15.00 – 15.30 Welcome and registration

15.30 – 15.45 Official opening

Florin Dragan, Rector, Politehnica University Timisoara

Daniela Badea, DGT Field Officer, Bucharest

Daniel Dejica, Dean, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Director, Politehnica Center for Advanced Translation Studies - PoliCAT

15.45 – 17.00 Plenary speeches. Session 1.

Positioning Technical Translation in the Field of Contemporary Translation Studies – Daniel Dejica, Professor and Director of the Politehnica Center for Advanced Translation Studies, Timisoara, Romania

What does it take to be a skilled technical translator? – Loredana Pungă, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Letters, University of the West, Timisoara, Romania

17.00 – 18.00 Round table

Technical Translation Today - Kirk St.Amant, Jody Byrne, Daniel Dejica (moderator), Istvan Lengyel, Ramune Kaspere, Annmaria Kilyeni, Agnes Kiss, Loredana Pungă, Carmen Toma

19.00 Networking and cocktail 

FRIDAY, 17.11.2023

09.30 – 10.45 Plenary speeches. Session 2.

Technical Writing for Translators - Kirk St.Amant, Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University, USA

Technical Translation: Today's technical challenges, tomorrow's opportunities – Dr. Jody Byrne, SAP Ireland, author of Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documentation (Springer) and Scientific and Technical Translation Explained. A Nuts and Bolts Guide for Beginners (Routledge), Ireland

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.45 Plenary speeches. Session 3.

Technical translation research: from 'find and replace' to using AI– Dr. Istvan Lengyel, BeLazy, founder and former CEO at memoQ, Barcelona, Spain

Project management in technical translator training: a skill to get or to forget. Professor Ramune Kaspere, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

12.45 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 17.00 Workshops

Track 1

LSP Translation Workflow at DGT – Carmen Toma, Romanian Language Department, DGT Brussels, Belgium

Terminology Management and Technical Translation – Annmaria Kilyeni, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Foreign Languages, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

Track 2

Technical Translation and Quality Assessment– Agnes Kiss, Head of the Translation Unit, Continental Timișoara, Romania

The Art and Science of Technical Translation, a Quality Management Approach - Dana Szabados, Freelance translator, Romania

17.00. Closing address – Daniela Badea, Daniel Dejica

18.00 Networking

Venue 2:

Politehnica University Library & Conference Center 

Bulevardul Vasile Pârvan 2, Timișoara 

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