PROGRAMME
16-17.11.2023
THURSDAY, 16.11.2023
Venue 1: Politehnica University Timișoara, Senate Hall
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
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, Ramunė Kasperė, 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: A Cognitive Approach to Creating Usable Content - 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 – Jody Byrne, PhD, 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 – Istvan Lengyel, PhD, BeLazy, founder and former CEO at memoQ, Barcelona, Spain
Project management in technical translator training: a skill to get or to forget. Ramunė Kasperė, Professor and Vice-Dean for research, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 17.00 Workshops
Venue 2: Politehnica University Library & Conference Center
Track 1
Computer-Assisted Technical Translation in DGT: Workflow, Tools, and Resources – Carmen Toma, Romanian Language Department, DGT Brussels, Belgium
Technical Translation and Terminology Management – 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
Locations
VENUE 1: Politehnica University Timisoara, Senate Hall
Piața Victoriei 2, Timișoara