The ATISA Conference Scientific Committee

Committee charge:

The ATISA Scientific Committee (hereinafter the Committee) is responsible for the conference program. The Committee acts independently from the Conference Organizing Committee. For every ATISA conference the Committee shall be responsible for the following:

• Decide on conference theme (in consultation with the Board)
• Decide and invite keynote speaker
• Send the call for proposals and the criteria to members
• Set timeline for program design and deadlines
• Log proposals and match them with areas of expertise of qualified reviewers
• Route proposals to qualified reviewers
• Facilitate the review process to guarantee the fairness of  blind reviews
• Follow-up with proposals that need a third reviewer
• Send the list of accepted/rejected papers to Conference Organizer. Conference Organizer will in turn notify authors
• Design the conference program
• Circulate the preliminary program among Board members and Conference Organizer
• Hold a teleconference with the Board and the Conference Organizer to obtain feedback on the preliminary program
• Make adjustments to format of preliminary program
• Send final program to conference organizer and to webmaster for posting

• Angelelli, Claudia (Chair)
• Baer, Brian
• Colina, Sonia
• Gentzler, Edwin
• Jacobson, Holly

• Proven record of research and publications in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Proven record of presentations at ATISA and other scientific meetings
• Members of ATISA in good standing
  

• Committee members shall serve for an initial term of four years (2 conference cycles).
• Terms are renewable