Submission Deadline Extended to 15 January 2010.

Notification of Acceptance

1 February 2010.

Call for Proposals

The Conference welcomes papers addressing general theoretical and practical issues of translation in the new millennium. It also solicits papers which deal with the more intricate aspects of translation.

Topics of Interest:

1. Literary Translation
2. The Effects of Translation  on Arabic
3. Translation and Culture
4. Translation: A Model for Global Communication
5. Translation in the Digital Age
6. New Perspectives in Teaching Translation
7. Interpretation
8. Translation Projects and Institutes in the UAE
9. Translating Islam
10. Translation and Media

Proposal Submission Guidelines:

1. Proposals should be written in English and emailed to the above contact address.
2. A presenter may submit only ONE proposal.
3. All submissions will be subject to a refereeing process. They will be reviewed according to their relevance to the conference theme, clarity of presentation, novelty, and theoretical/ practical value.
4. Presenters are requested to write a brief Bio.
5. Abstracts are to be written in English and must not exceed 500 words.
6. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the University of Sharjah Journal.