International Summit Forum on Translation/ Interpreting Studies

The International Summit Forum on Translation / Interpreting Studies: New Orientations, organized by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), will be held in Guangzhou on October 30th – November 1st, 2015. The forum aspires to explore translation/interpreting studies from the perspectives of diverse academic disciplines within the context of different cultures and different social and linguistic backgrounds and aims to lay groundwork for new models, methods and perspectives in translation/interpreting studies as an interdisciplinary branch of learning. The forum welcomes researchers in translation/interpreting studies from across the world to participate. The forum, “International Summit Forum on Translation/Interpreting Studies: New Orientations”, now cordially invites submission of abstracts of 300-500 words in English, together with a brief narrative bio-note in English (50-100 words), one electronic bareheaded, full-face photograph and contact information with the speaker’s name, affiliation, email address, and telephone and fax numbers. Please submit your abstract through the Website forumtis.gdufs.edu.cn together with the Registration Form to facilitate our planning. The deadline for submission of abstracts in an MS Word Format is April 30th, 2015. The Organizing Committee of the Forum reserves the right to edit the abstract if necessary. Authors of accepted abstracts should send their draft papers before July 31st, 2015 and a notification of acceptance will be sent to authors of accepted draft papers before August 20th, 2015. Authors of accepted draft papers should send their finalized full papers of less than 5,500 words in a PDF Format or an MS Word Format before September 20th, 2015 to forum_transstudies@126.com. The submitted papers should be original and have not been contributed or published elsewhere.