Venue of Celebration
Caja Rural Granada - Servicios Centrales
Dirección: Av. Don Bosco, 2, 18006 Granada
Program
Paper Submission
Attendants to the Seminar who wish to have their papers published will have the chance to do so in a peer-reviewed monograph, in the Traducción Accesible Series of the publishing house Tragacanto, based in Granada. The official languages of the conference are Spanish and English. Recognition of 2 ECTS credits for the Department of Translation and Interpreting students of the University of Granada. Pending confirmation for other UGR students.
Presentation
SITAP2018 is organised by the project OPERA (Access to Leisure and Culture. A web portal for the dissemination and assessment of accessible audiovisual resources, FFI2015-65934 -R) and the CITRA project (Inclusive Culture through Translation, Teaching Innovation Project, PID 15-56) with the objective of discussing conceptual, scientific, methodological and professional aspects of accessibility to heritage through accessible translation.
We encourage accessibility researchers, professionals and companies, as well as institutions and associations, to present their results and products at SITAP2018. The main goal is to share and develop criteria and working methods that show innovative advances in the area of universal accessibility to cultural heritage from different perspectives.
TRACCE Research Group
TRACCE Research Group of the University of Granada focuses on the fields of translation and interpreting and media accessibility. This includes the modalities of audio description, subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, sign language interpreting, easy reading and simplified language, among others. TRACCE aims to research the subjects of Accessibility to the Media, Accessible Museology and Tourism for All.
Our current projects are:
OPERA (Access to Leisure and Culture. A web portal for the dissemination and assessment of accessible audiovisual resources, FFI2015-65934-R), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
CITRA (Inclusive culture through translation), a teaching innovation project of the University of Granada in collaboration with the CajaGranada, Memoria de Andalucía Museum.