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Wednesday, 11 October
Thursday, 12 October
10:00-11:30
11:00-12:30
13:00
Desk open (until 19:30)
14:30-18:00
WORKSHOPS (parallel - including coffee break)
 
Sala Volpi Ghirardini (ground floor of adjacent building)
Signposting the way: using punctuation to improve flow FULL!Thomas O'Boyle
Saletta I Colli Morenici (first floor)
Translating for the art world FULL!Laura Bennett
Saletta La Serenissima (first floor)
Polymerase chain reaction: getting to grips with molecular techniques in biomedical writing FULL!Katarzyna Szymańska
Sala Pievi e Castelli (second floor)
Incorporating gender-inclusive language into our work FULL!Alicja Tokarska
Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
How to become your most efficient, creative and serene self FULL!Emma Paulay
18:15-19:15
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
Yoga session
 

Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Translation slam
Friday, 13 October
8:30
Desk open (until 13:00)
9:00-12:30
WORKSHOPS (parallel - including coffee break)
 
Sala didattica Federico Boccalari (first floor)
Abstracts and introductions: genre analysis for editors and translators of research articles FULL!Alan Lounds
Saletta I Colli Morenici (first floor)
Excel for Wordies: accounting and workflow FULL!Mary Fons i Fleming
Sala Pievi e Castelli (second floor)
Calm down, warm up, check your voice, say your piece – and have fun doing it! FULL!Nancy du Plessis
Saletta La Serenissima (first floor)
Quantitative research data with units in text: to correct or to query? FULL!Valerie Matarese
Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
How human is your workflow? Critical AI use for language professionals FULL!Elina Nocera, Theresa Truax-Gischler, Allison Wright
12:45-13:45
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
MET choir rehearsal

12:50-14:30
14:45
Desk open (until 18:30)
15:00-15:20
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Welcome and housekeeping
15:35-16:20
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Against native-speakerism: authors’ editors as access allies Kate Sotejeff-Wilson, Theresa Truax-Gischler, Wendy Baldwin
Sala L'Oltrepo Mantovano (first floor)
Communicating the added value of language services to clients – How associations can helpSarah Bawa Mason
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
Branching out into interpretingKit Cree
16:35-17:20
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Beautiful language: unmasking the world of cosmetics translationRuth Simpson
Sala L'Oltrepo Mantovano (first floor)
La internacia lingvo – Using Esperanto to ease communicationSiru Laine
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
The immune system: get your FACS straightMaighread Gallagher-Gambarelli
17:20-17:50
Coffee break
17:50-19:00
KEYNOTE
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Translating in acute crises – on texts, contexts, and languagesFederico Federici
19:30-20:30
Saturday, 14 October
8:30
Desk open (until 13:00)
9:00-10:00
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Defending a paper: review of literature on the "point-by-point reply" and tips for supportive author editingMary Ellen Kerans
Sala L'Oltrepo Mantovano (first floor)
Language breakout: interactive translation session (IT–EN)Laura Bennett, Elizabeth Garrison
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
Interactive editing session: educationSarah Bawa Mason, Kim Eddy
10:15-11:15
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Exploring bracket (mis)use Joy Burrough-Boenisch
Sala L'Oltrepo Mantovano (first floor)
Language breakout: interactive translation session (ES–EN)Kate Major Patience, Kit Cree
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
Language breakout: interactive translation session (DE–EN)Kate Sotejeff-Wilson, Kathryn O'Donoghue
11:15-11:50
Group photo (venue entrance, weather permitting) followed by coffee break
11:50-13:00
KEYNOTE
13:00-14:45
Lunch at venue
14:45
Desk open (until 18:30)
14:45-15:45
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Interactive session on MS Word: your questions answeredJenny Zonneveld
Sala L'Oltrepo Mantovano (first floor)
Interactive editing session: medicineAlice Lehtinen, Heather Hamilton
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
Language breakout: interactive translation session (FR–EN)Séverine Watson, Aleksandra J. Chlon
16:00-16:45
PRESENTATIONS (parallel)
 
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
Going beyond inclusive language: an introduction to liberation through communication Begoña Martínez-Pagán
Sala L'Oltrepo Mantovano (first floor)
In search of style: using theory to fight source-language interference Helen Oclee-Brown
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
What does it take to become (and remain) a scientific translator? A two-tale perspectiveKatarzyna Szymańska, Audrey Bernard-Petitjean
16:45-17:15
Coffee break
17:15-18:15
Auditorium L’Ottagono (ground floor)
2023 MET General Assembly (including raffle)
18:30-19:30
Sala Pievi e Castelli + Sala L'Abbazia sul Po (second floor)
MET choir rehearsal
20:45
Sunday, 15 October
9:20-10:45
11:00-12:30