Schedule | International Japanese-English Translation Conference

Sep 5, 2026

	Day 1
	L7. Green Brain	L7. Seminar Room 1&2	L7. Seminar Room 3&4
8:30	Registration
8:45
9:00
9:15
9:30	Opening ceremony
9:45	Keynote speech (E) “I go as I go by myself” ~ Translating the human heart ~ Roger Pulvers L.5 Auditorium [Video]
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15	Break
11:30	The human connection: Thriving together in the AI era (E) Jigar Mangukiya (Interviewer: Sara Kitaoji) [Video]	作家・作品との語らい：オーストラリア児童文学の翻訳 (J) 内山明子	Contractual intention as a meeting of the minds: Seeing what others miss (E) Reiko Okazaki [Video]
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30	Lunch & film screening Japarta – a journey to the Gurindji way L.5 Auditorium
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30
14:45	Literary translation panel (E/J) Tomoko Aoyama, Matthew Stavros and Alison Watts (Moderator: Akiko Uchiyama)	Optimise your creative workflow: PerfectIT for translators, editors and writers (E) Hilary Cadman (Workshop)	Workshop – Why we need a pilot to fly a plane: Testing the capabilities and limitations of AI in the translation classroom (E) Shani Tobias and Miki Hawkinson (Workshop)
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
16:00
16:15	Break
16:30	Break
16:45	The translator as wordsmith: Writing, editing, and style in your language life (E) Lynne Riggs (Interviewer: Julianne Long) [Video]	The Princess Kaguya paradox: Translator as cultural consultant (E) Matthew Stavros [Video]	"Gender" is a verb: Working with pronouns in entertainment translation (E) Faye Duxovni [Video]
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
19:00	Banquet Australia Room Novotel Melbourne on Collins




	Notes: (E) This session will be presented in English. (J) This session will be presented in Japanese. [Video] This session will be recorded and made available to IJET participants at a later date.

Sep 6, 2026

	Day 2
	L7. Green Brain	L7. Seminar Room 1&2	L7. Seminar Room 3&4
8:30	Registration for Sunday Interpreter Program ticket holders
8:45
9:00	翻訳と通訳ガイドの両立：その利点と課題、そこから探る唯一無二の領域 (J)(J) 俣野麻子	オルタナティブ投資の翻訳：リスク管理と価値創造の最前線 ─ AI時代における翻訳者の役割 (J) 木本恵 [Video]	Offence as intimacy: Understanding mock aggression in cross-cultural communication (E) Xi Dai [Video]
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00	Break
10:15
10:30	Interpreter jam (Facilitators: Heather Glass, Anna Berry Fukuda and Rita Ormsby)	Exploring the potential for collaboration between subtitlers and filmmakers through direct communication or briefing (E) Hugh Nettelbeck (Workshop) [Video]	Inside a Winning Translation: A Panel with JAT Contest Winners (J/E) Megumi Hirota, Matthew Sueda, Chloe Kalani (Moderator: Emily Shibata-Sato) [Video]
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00	Lunch
12:15
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30	Working beyond borders: How to grow your international client base (E) Rychelle Brittain [Video]	特許翻訳における重要な「視点」(J) 二神信也 [Video]	Rethinking human interpreter ethics through consultation interpreting (E) Maho Fukuno [Video]
13:45
14:00
14:15
14:30	Break
14:45
15:00	Practical tools and JAT website for personal branding (E) Rie Ihara [Video]	Adding value to your practice: Building medical writing skills as a translator (E) Tony Atkinson [Video]	On the balance of probabilities: The changing reality of court interpreting (E) Julie Segal [Video]
15:15
15:30
15:45
16:00	Break
16:15	Closing panel (E/J) Where do we go from here? Tony Atkinson, Sara Kitaoji and Hideaki Maruoka (Moderator: Julian Kitchen) L.1 Lecture theatre [Video]
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30	Closing ceremony
	Notes: (E) This session will be presented in English. (J) This session will be presented in Japanese. [Video] This session will be recorded and made available to IJET participants at a later date.