2015 Jubilee Conference – Programme (with links)

Programme

Delegates arrived between 9.00 and 9.30 am to register and enjoy a coffee and some informal networking.

Time
Event
9.00-9.30
Registration, coffee
9.30-9.45
Opening & announcements
9.45-10.45
Plenary speaker: Mark Forsyth
Let us go then, you and me - A trip through English grammar
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.30
DATA SECURITY
Freek Wallaart
SOCIAL MEDIA
Susan Aretz
Leonie Porton
Stop sitting on the problem
David McKay
Treadmill desks for translators
Ann Hodgkinson
Camilla Brokking
Ethics of thesis editing
Jackie Senior
Working as an in-house scientific editor
Curtis Barrett
Helping students source funding
Joy Burrough
SENSE’s Thesis Editing Guidelines
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.30
SINGING
Robert Coupe, David Barick
& Barbara Borden
CLIENTS
Nigel Saych
Sally Hill
CORPORA
Mary Ellen Kerans
General and specific corpora with online concordance tools: quick information to help resolve doubts about language use
BIOMEDICAL
Daphne Lees
 
David Alexander & Hannah Dekker
EDITING
Lee Ann Weeks
 
Jackie Senior & Kate Mc Intyre
Share your expertise with fellow professionals: mentoring in practice
TRANSLATION
Marcel Lemmens & Tony Parr
14.45-15.45
Plenary speaker: Professor Geoffrey Pullum
English: the language that ate the world
15.45-16.15
Tea break + exhibits
16.15-17.30
Plenary Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Mike Hannay (panellists t.b.a.)
Editors, translators and teachers as gatekeepers of the language
17.30-17.45
Close
17.45-18.15
Drinks - for delegates, speakers & presenters