8th Media for All International Conference: Complex Understandings
The Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University held the the 8th Media for All conference – Complex Understandings, on June 17–19, 2019.
The conference was held at the main campus of Stockholm University in the urban national park at Frescati. The conference attracted academics, researchers, language practitioners, translators, interpreters, broadcasters, government agencies, support groups and the audiovisual translation (AVT) and media accessibility (MA) industry, not only from Europe, but indeed from all over the world.
Complex Understandings
The world is becoming ever more complex and the world of audiovisual translation and media accessibility no less so. With ever more ways and ever more environments (cinema, TV, video games, computers, smart phones and glasses, social media etc.) in which to take part of (and in) audiovisual material, the complexities for AVT and MA are increasing.
Not only that, but more diverse groups of inhabitants of our audiovisual world (such as the visually, aurally or cognitively impaired, language learners, the elderly etc.) are demanding and getting their just rights as audiovisual citizens.
The media itself is also getting more complex, with more forms interacting (e.g. YouTube clips on Facebook, surtitling in smart phones or glasses, cinema releases reappearing on streaming sites, interactive displays at museums etc.). Media has also become democratized, with more prosumer creating, and translating, their own content.
Furthermore, AVT and MA research is becoming ever more complex, as we search for understanding, not only by descriptive, text-centred studies, but also through experimental, viewer-centred studies using ever more complex methods (such as eyetracking, EEG, skin conductivity and fMRI scans). Understanding audiovisual content and impact has never been more important in this increasingly polarized world.
The Aim of the conference
This conference was about creating and mediating understanding in an increasingly complex mediascape. Understanding not only of audiovisual content, but also understanding of and between producers, consumers and prosumers, understanding for the technical and cognitive processes involved, understanding for consumers’ needs and desires, and understanding of and for working conditions, among many other perspectives. So, let’s get together to understand all these complexities!
Book of Abstracts
Book of Abstracts M4A8 in 2019 (4635 Kb)
Content (the pdf is bookmarked):
– Maps
– Committees:
- Advisory Board
- Local Organizing Committee (see Contact below as well)
- TransMedia Research Group
– Sponsors and Supporting Organizations
– Programme (old version – updated version below)
– Abstracts day by day:
- Workshops
- Sessions
- Poster presentations
– Bio notes
Programme
Please note that the Book of Abstracts contains an older version of the programme. The last updated version is available here, as a seperate pdf file. (Please note that the links in the programme file are no longer working.)
Programme M4A8 in 2019 (434 Kb)
Videos from live streaming sessions
Three videos are available from three sessions at the conference.
Video: Opening and Welcome
- Vice-chancellor Astrid Söderbergh Widding and Keynote speaker Jan-Louis Kruger.
- Tuesday 18 June 2019.
- Auditorium Aula Magna, Stockholm University (Sweden).
Video: Round Table about AVT localization
- Keynote speaker and chair: Agnieszka Szarkowska
- Wednesday 19 June 2019
- Auditorium Aula Magna, Stockholm University (Sweden).
Video: Closing Session: Complex Understandings
- Chair: Jorge Díaz Cintas
- Wednesday June 2019
- Auditorium Aula Magna, Stockholm University (Sweden).
Contact
Earlier and future Media for All conferences
Local Organizing Committee:
- Visiting address
- D578
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
Associate professor and former Head of dept, Institute for Interpreting and Translation
Universitetslektor, Studierektor tolkning
- Visiting address
- D526
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
Associate Professor
- Visiting address
- E 566
Director
- Visiting address
- E 220
- Universitetsvägen 10 E, pl 2
Director, Språkstudion (Language Learning Resource Centre)
- Visiting address
- D 337
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
Professor in Translation Studies
I was the chair of the higher seminar at IITS until 2024 and I am responsible for and teach the master thesis courses.The academic year 24/25 I am on a sabbatical at UCL.
- Office hours
By appointment
- Visiting address
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
PhD student in Translation Studies.
- Visiting address
- D 594
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
Associate professor in Translation Studies
- Visiting address
- D568
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
Associate Professor of Translation Studies with a focus in Interpreting
Associate Professor
- Visiting address
- E 568
Professor emerita i tolkning och översättning
- Visiting address
- Universitetsvägen 10 D
Professor in interpreting and translation studies.
Last updated: October 20, 2022
Source: Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies (TÖI)