INFO: Mediterranean Editors & Translators: METM12 Registration Open

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Dear Listmates,

This annoucement might be of interest for some of you.

Enjoy your (long) weekend!

Registration is open for Mediterranean Editors and Translators’ 8th

annual meeting

Mediterranean Editors and Translators

Craft and Critical Vision:

Diving Beneath the Surface of Discourse

8-10 November 2012, Venice, Italy

www.metmeetings.org <http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php>

Keynote speakers

* Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick (Warwick, UK): /Travelling,

Writing, Translating/

* Tom Jefferson, Cochrane Collaboration (Rome, Italy): /The Cochrane

Collaboration and Current Problems in Research Synthesis/

*Venue:* Don Orione Artigianelli Cultural Center

<http://www.donorione-venezia.it/en/>, Zattere, Dorsoduro, Venezia

Preliminary program

*Mediterranean Editors and Translators (MET)* is an independent,

non-profit association that brings together people who provide language

support for international communication in English within the

Mediterranean area and beyond. The preliminary program of this year’s

annual meeting is now online and registration

<http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm12_registration> has been

opened. Accommodation for meeting participants is available at the guest

house of the conference center

<http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm12_accommodation>.

Topics accepted so far include the ins and outs of authors’ editing, the

translation of quotations, a translation project in primary schools, the

open-access publishing model, a freelance translator’s customer

satisfaction survey, a web-based aid for terminology searches, and

training in writing for academic purposes. There will be panel

discussions on translating literature and editing literary translations,

practical ideas for getting the most out of your working environment

(part III of the popular “Tools Panelâ€), and news from the world of

biomedical editors. The list of accepted presentations and abstracts is

available on the METM12 program page

<http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm12_program_prelim> and

will be updated throughout the spring.

The program also includes two half-day workshop sessions with a choice

of nine workshops.

The call for oral presentations is closed, but poster proposals can be

submitted until 30 June 2012. Information on how to submit a poster

abstract is available here

<http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm12_call>.

Kim Eddy

Promotion Committee

Mediterranean Editors & Translators

promotion@...

www.metmeetings.org <http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php>