The programme for the « Culture in/and multimedia localisation » workshop is now available by clicking here. The call for papers is available here. The schedule is reproduced below.

This event is compulsory for students in the T2M and ICM Masters programs, and open to students, colleagues, practitioners and other interested participants from the University of Burgundy and elsewhere.

Should you wish to attend, or if you have any other queries, please contact culturelocalisation2018@gmail.com.

Schedule:

9:00       registration

9:30       Introduction: the complexity of adapting unusual content. Interactive session presented by MA students from the ICM and T2M programs (UBFC).

10:30     coffee

11:00     Alex Frame and Will Noonan (UBFC). Localisation and the theoretical impasse.

11:30    Madiha Kassawat (ESIT – Paris 3), Localizable elements and the limits of cultural adaptation: the surface and the core

12:00     lunch (provided on-site for workshop participants)

13:30    Simon Varga (Mainz-UBFC) Risk Perception and Trust in Cross-Border E-Commerce: Comparing France and Germany

14:00    Mikhail Fiodatau (Tallinn) Localization as Cultural Translation: Bringing Japanese Visual Novels to Western Audiences

14:30    Parthena Charalampidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, by videolink), Unveiling culture in localized websites: implications for website localization towards the Greek locale

15:00     coffee

15:30    Round table: Richard Alfred (Visionär, UK), Aurélie Perrin (Oreli Translation, Chalon), with other participants: Do practitioners have the answer?

16:30     closing remarks