PROGRAMME

The plenary speeches will be streamed live on our PoliCAT Facebook account 

09.15 – Welcome and registration 

09.45 – Official opening 

Florin Drăgan, Rector, Politehnica University Timișoara

Daniela Badea, DGT Outreach Officer, Bucharest 

Daniel Dejica, Dean, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Politehnica University Timișoara

10.00 – Plenary speeches 

Cognition, Translation and Design: Expanding the Role of Translators into Usability Researchers and Product Design Consultants 

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

Enhancing Translation, (Em)powering Translators and Clients. Dynamics of Trust 

Titela Vîlceanu, Professor, University of Craiova, President of the Romanian Society for English and American Studies

12:00 – Coffee break

12.30 – Workshops (parallel sessions)

Workshop 1: AI at the European Commission: Machine Translation and other AI-based multilingual services

Kristiina Suviste, eTranslation Advisory Unit, DGT, European Commission

 Workshop 2: Translation as an exercise of adaptation

Ciprian Dan Dumea, Intercultural and Language Professional, Directorate for Citizens' Language, Directorate General for Translation, European Parliament

13.30 – Lunch

14.30 – Workshops (parallel sessions)

 Workshop 2 / Workshop 1 (attendees switch workshops)

15.30 – Closing address