METM19 programme

Wednesday, 25 September
21:00
After-dinner drinks for early arrivals
Thursday, 26 September
Morning
Two-hour tour of Split (sponsored by KantanMT and Cosnautas)
 
Afternoon at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
13:00
Desk open (until 19:30)
14:30-18:00
WORKSHOPS (parallel - including coffee break)
 
Room P3
Two aspects of information ordering that affect flow within sentences and beyond Mary Ellen Kerans
Room P4
Advanced Word skills for editors and translators Jenny Zonneveld
Room P5
Wine words – translating in the wine world Ruth Simpson
Room P6
Dealing with parentheses: commas, brackets and dashes Alan Lounds
18:15-19:15
Off-METM language breakouts and yoga
20:00
Off-METM dinner groups
Friday, 27 September
 
Morning at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
8:30
Desk open (until 13:00)
9:00-12:30
WORKSHOPS (parallel - including coffee break)
 
Room P3
Corpus building and mining with Sketch Engine FULL!Anne Murray
Room P4
Getting to grips with post-editing machine translation FULL!Michael Farrell
Room P5
Perfecting it with PerfectIt: keeping your writing in check Timothy Barton
Room P6
memoQ: the secrets of a flexible CAT tool revealed FULL!Juliet Macan
Room P27
Using reporting guidelines to help research articles meet journal requirements for reproducibility and completeness FULL!Jennifer de Beyer
 
Grammar pathway MINISESSIONS (including coffee break)
9:00-10:30
Room P12
Phrasal verbs: “Bring ’em on!” (cancelled)John Linnegar
11:00-12:30
Room P12
Modal verbs: “Might you be in the mood?” (cancelled) John Linnegar
12:30-13:30
Room P3
MET choir rehearsal
12:30-15:00
Off-METM lunch groups
 
Afternoon at the School of Medicine
14:45
Desk open (until 18:30)
15:00-15:15
Room B100
Welcome and housekeeping
15:20-16:35
PANELS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Can we make the world a better place? Realities, roadblocks and rewards for language professionals who work for philanthropic causes Valerie Matarese, Timothy Barton, Karen Shashok, Sandra Young
Room B104
From the inside out: thinking through the specificity of working with social science texts
A Susan M. DiGiacomo memorial sessionSally Burgess, Fiona Kelso, Alan Lounds, Kate Sotejeff-Wilson, Theresa Truax-Gischler
16:35-17:05
Coffee break (fruit offered by SDL)
17:05-18:20
KEYNOTE
 
Room B100
Translation and writing in a corporate environment: making it count in the C-suite David Jemielity
18:30-19:15
Welcome reception (School of Humanities)
Saturday, 28 September
 
All day at the School of Medicine
8:30
Desk open (until 13:00)
9:00-9:45
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Reproducibility in research, reporting guidelines, and language professionals Jennifer de Beyer
Room B104
Content marketing 101 for translatorsMaeva Cifuentes
Room B103
Ask your terp: how interpreters can help maximize clarity and efficiencySarah Cuminetti
9:55-10:40
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Improving a source language after years of immersion Emma Goldsmith
Room B104
Getting to the next level in post-editing neural machine translationAnna Zaretskaya
Room B103
Thinking of teaching a course on scientific writing?Ann Bless
10:40-11:10
Group photo (on the steps of the School of Medicine) followed by coffee break
11:10-11:40
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Building a language professional–academic co-working partnership Wendy Baldwin
Room B104
Researchers’ attitudes to, and experiences with, the STROBE reporting guideline: an online surveyMelissa Sharp
Room B103
Automate repetitive tasks with AutoHotkeyStephen Waller
11:50-12:50
Room B100
2019 MET General Assembly (including raffle)
12:50-14:20
Lunch at venue
14:15
Desk open (until 18:30)
14:20-14:50
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Translating the Bible – it could cost you your life! John Hynd
Room B104
The pitfalls of comparison in scientific writingDavid Barick
Room B103
Editorial interventions to improve transparency of randomized controlled trialsDavid Blanco
15:00-16:00
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Get the message: editors/translators teaching presenting skills to early-career researchers Maria Sherwood-Smith, Joy Burrough-Boenisch
Room B104
Preparing the winning quote – effective job estimatesJenny Zonneveld, John Linnegar
Room B103
Editors’ perspectives on the peer review process in biomedical journals – disentangling communication issues and understanding roles and tasks of stakeholders involvedKetevan Glonti Measuring the quality of peer review reports in biomedical researchCecilia Superchi
16:00-16:30
Coffee break (fruit offered by memoQ)
16:30-17:15
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Room B100
Insights from 30 years’ collaboration: an analytical memoir from an author and his manuscript editor Mary Ellen Kerans, Jaume Canet
Room B104
Translating pseudo-EnglishLloyd Bingham
Room B103
Gateway to MET: volunteering opportunities within the associationKarin Rockstad, Helen Oclee-Brown, Kelly Dickeson
17:25-18:40
KEYNOTE
 
Room B100
The evolution of concision: editors' role in changing EnglishLynne Murphy
18:40-19:40
Room B104
MET choir rehearsal
20:30
Closing dinner and afterparty at Restaurant Pizzeria Đir (DJ sponsored by Wordfast)
Sunday, 29 September
9:30
Group walk (and optional swim) in Marjan Park