The First WITTA Congress&

International Symposium on Translation in Education and Education in Translation                          

19-20 November 2016

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (North Campus),        

  Guangzhou,China        

  Programme        

18 November 2016, Friday

10:00~20:00        Registration

Venue:              The Hallto the Right of the First Floor, Administrative Building

19 November 2016, Saturday

07:30~08:30        Registration

Venue:               The Hallto the Right of the First Floor, Administrative Building

09:00~11:30        Opening Ceremony of The First WITTA Congress

Venue:              The International Conference Room, The Third Floor,Administrative Building

Chair:          Prof. ZHAO Junfeng (Dean of School of Interpreting and Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

09:00~09:10        Welcoming Speech by Prof. ZHONG Weihe(President of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

09:10~09:30        Launch Ceremony of WITTA

09:30~09:40       Congratulatory Speech by Prof. Anthony Pym  (Former President of European Society for Translation Studies)

09:40~09:50        Congratulatory Speech by Prof. HUANG Youyi  (Executive Vice President of Translators Association of China and Director of China National Committee for T & I Education)

09:50~10:00       Congratulatory Message by Prof. Henry LIU(President of  FIT)

10:00~10:10        Congratulatory Message by Dr. Liese Katschinka(President of European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association)

10:10~10:20        Release of WITTA Guangzhou Declaration and The Charter of  WITTA

10:20~10:30        Appointment of the Executive Committee of  WITTA

10:30~10:50        Group Photo & Tea Break

10:50~11:30        Keynote Speech (1):

      Chair:          ZHANG Ailing (Shanghai International Studies University)

      Speaker:      ZHONG Weihe (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

      Speech:       Recent Development and Future Directions of Interpreting and Translation Education in China’s Mainland

14:00~17:05        Keynote and Plenary Speeches

Venue:              The International Conference Room, the Third Floor, Administrative Building

14:00~14:40        Keynote Speech (2):

      Chair:          TAN Zaixi (Hong Kong Baptist University)

      Speaker:      Anthony Pym (European Society for Translation Studies,Rovirai Virgili University)

      Speech:        For A Sociology of  Translator Training

14:40~15:05        Plenary Speech (1):

      Chair:          Gemma Martinez-Garrido (University of Essex)

      Speaker:      Hannelore Lee-Jahnke (University of Geneva)

      Speech:        T & I as Interface and Meeting Point between Disciplines

15:05~15:30        Plenary Speech (2):

      Chair:          HE Ying (Xi’an International Studies University)

      Speaker:      Nikolay Garbovskiy (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

      Speech:        Translation Didactics. What are the Ways to Train a Translation Teacher?

15:30~15:50        Tea Break

15:50~16:15        Plenary Speech (3):

      Chair:          Malcolm Williams (University of Ottawa)

      Speaker:      BAO Chuanyun (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey(MIIS))

      Speech:        Teaching a Truly Professional Training Program

16:15~16:40        Plenary Speech (4):

      Chair:          Tony Hartley (Rikkyo University)

      Speaker:      Mark Shuttleworth (University College London)

      Speech:        Training Students to Become Tomorrow’s Translators:Problems and Challenges

16:40~17:05        Plenary Speech (5):

      Chair:          YANG Chengshu (Fu Jen Catholic University)

      Speaker:      ZHU Chunshen (City University of Hong Kong)

      Speech:        Critical and Constructive Thinking Refined in Translation:With Special Reference to the Conception of xin-da-ya in English

20 November 2016, Sunday

08:45~11:35        Parallel Sessions

Venue:              Room B204-B209, Teaching Building No. 6

14:00~17:00        Keynote and Plenary Speeches; Closing Ceremony

Venue:              The International Conference Room, the Third Floor, Administrative Building

14:00~14:40        Keynote Speech (3):

      Chair:          LI Shuying (City University of Macau)

      Speaker:      Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)

      Speech:        The 心 of  the  Foreign

14:40~15:05        Plenary Speech (6):

      Chair:          FANG Jing (Macquarie University)

      Speaker:      Martin Forstner (University of Mainz)

      Speech:        WITTA between Globalization and Localization:New Opportunities and New Kinds of Partnerships

15:05~15:30        Plenary Speech (7):

      Chair:          WANG Enmian (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

      Speaker:      Helena Hong GAO (Nanyang Technological University)

      Speech:        Effect of Teaching on Translation Competence of Young Bilingual Future Professionals in Singapore

15:30~15:55        Plenary Speech (8):

      Chair:          LI Changshuan (Beijing Foreign Studies University)

      Speaker:      LI Defeng (University of Macau)

      Speech:        “Chunking” as a Technique for Students of Simultaneous Interpreting: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Experiment

15:55~16:25        Tea Break

16:25~17:00        Closing Ceremony

Chair:        ZHU Chunshen (City University of HongKong)

16:25~16:40        Closing Speech by the President of WITTA

16:40~16:50        Announcement of the Host Institution of the 2nd WITTA Congress

16:50~17:00        Greeting Speech by the Host Institution of the 2nd WITTA Congress

17:00                   The END of The First WITTA Congress