Pilar Orero – Media for All 9

PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Pilar Orero, full professor of Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

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The 9th International Conference Media for All will be held online on 27-28-29 January 2021 organised by TransMedia Catalonia.

Pre-conference workshops: 27 January 2021.

Main conference: 28 and 29 January 2021.

Tomorrow’s mediascape will be a transformed landscape where collaboration, partnership and mutual understanding will be key to success for traditional and new players. New voices, new workflows, and new technologies will provide great opportunities to interact and initiate lasting changes in business models and in discussions that progress from tolerating difference to celebrating diversity. Media for All 9 will provide a platform for all stakeholders, from researchers and developers to analysts, audiences and business leaders to present their findings, developments, ideas and experiences from the multi-faceted world of audiovisual translation and media accessibility and to highlight in particular their technological, social, financial and academic impact. The conference will promote creative thinking and provide a forum for people to share knowledge and expand their horizons while demonstrating the true potential of multidisciplinary work. Media for All 9 will host participants representing all sectors with the explicit goal of exploring how collaborative approaches and methodologies as well as advances in technology and skillsets will transform the panorama of media accessibility and translation, and contribute to creating a society for all.

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Pilar Orero (PhD, UMIST) is the INDRA-ADDECCO Chair in Accessible Technology and full professor of Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is a world-leading scholar in media accessibility with vast experience in standardisation and policy-making, She is a scientific/organizing committee member of many conferences, including Media4All, ARSAD, and Video Games for All. She has delivered, upon invitation, more than 15 plenary lectures and 30 guest lectures all over the world, including at the 9th United Nations Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (New York, 2016).

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