METM19 programme
Wednesday, 25 September
Thursday, 26 September
Morning
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
20:00
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 Anne Murray
Room P4
Getting to grips with post-editing machine translation 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 Juliet Macan
Room P27
Using reporting guidelines to help research articles meet journal requirements for reproducibility and completeness Jennifer de BeyerGrammar pathway MINISESSIONS (including coffee break)
9:00-10:30
11:00-12:30
12:30-13:30
Room P3
MET choir rehearsal 12:30-15:00
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 textsA 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 Cuminetti9:55-10:40
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 Bless10:40-11:10
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 Waller11:50-12:50
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 Blanco15:00-16:00
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 Superchi16:00-16:30
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 Dickeson17:25-18:40
KEYNOTE
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