FIT invites all those interested – practitioners, academics, students, agencies, software makers and policy makers, accreditation bodies, and buyers of services -to submit proposals for papers/posters dealing with the following session themes:

• Translating from/into Minority and Indigenous Languages: politics/knowledge gaps/ globalisation/ literature/ oral heritage

• Language and Conflict: interpreting in war zone/technologies and skills/ preservation/vicarious trauma

• Community Interpreting and Translation: New and emerging communities/refugees and asylum seekers/aging populations/recognition and remuneration/ Certification, accreditation and regulation/ pedagogy and research

• Sign Language Interpreting: developments/access politics/ markets/ future/ technology

• Localisation as a Genre: developments/markets/future/technology

• Social Media Translation Trends: QA/ economic pressures/ technology/future of the professional in the world of the amateur

• Globalisation, Ethics and Status of the Profession: research/ legislation/ teaching/ changes /invisibility/

• Translation Practice and Academic Research: change, growth, strategies

• Future Shock – Technology, Disruption and the New Industry Paradigm: effect on LSP, and buyers of language services/diversification/responses / quality

• Creativity and Translation in the Post-modern World: trans-creation, copywriting and literary translation

• Freelancing as a Reflective Business Practice: learning/business skills/ perceptions/training/sustainability/ diversification