 It's only... I don't know how to read it. You got to... Who took the picture? I don't know. You took the picture of the period which... how... That's it. Three of you up here? Yeah. From the photo. And then you took the picture of the world. You took this one and then you... I don't know how to read it. I guess you're not all the time. Is there a culture? Yes. One, two, three, four, five. Another chair. Okay, so I can tell him what I was trying to say. No more. Oh, well, you didn't have to... You think we have a crush? A little more. Just a smidge. Well, I prepared a skill for him and I... He was just running up the door and I was going to take... Yeah, he was just... Oh, that's impossible. You intimidated him. You got 400 people in here? Yeah. We're working on that one, but I have to... This is the likely... You can have headset on if you want. Yeah, because it works better. Yeah, it does. Yeah. The microphone has to go under. So it's the opposite of a way. And they've lost their ear. They've lost their ear. This goes... Pocket? Yeah. Okay. Come off on the other side. Perfect. Sorry. Hello. Perfect. I did not step on it. We have two things. We need all these coats, coats, coats, coats. We need to show them. Oh, we've got to put it in? We can put it into the slide. You know, as we go. But it's been... No, no. You've got to put it on the website. People will know. Oh, they're going to see it here. The idea was to just give it to them here. But you don't want the non-members to hurt. That is true. So it's going to be on the website. There will be like four votes now. But I'm thinking... Well, the idea was to hide the mentor. And then we could easily just give out the code. We can even write it on the board. We can easily just... Everybody will be able to follow the code. We can just write it on the board. Or we could put it into... Do we have the code now? Thomas does, but out of principle, I do not have them. So you can ask him, but he can really put them on the board. Well, it's the beginning of the meeting right now. So I can... So that is one thing. Another thing, do we want to show the results? Yes. As we go along. Because what he can do, he gets them on his email. Then he sends it to that computer and we open the link. Yes. Yes. Hello. Hello. Good afternoon. I hereby open the general meeting of the European Society for Translation Studies. We have a very full agenda, as you can see. We will have a quorum quite soon, I'm sure. But we can begin with some preliminaries. This meeting is being streamed live. So members who are not attending here can follow us and we'll be able to vote. We are going to elect a new executive board, president and office holders, and we will vote on some other propositions as well. For that, you will need an electronic device. That is a mobile phone, a laptop, a computer. If you don't have that, you are being disenfranchised. Are there any problems with that? You have answered correctly. I'm going to present a brief president's report on behalf of the executive committee. There they are, very smiling faces, very happy people, and we have been happy, haven't we? The members who are present are here, others are up there, Carol. Yes, please, we forgot about you. It's been a great pleasure. I want to, in my brief report, and in the presentations that will follow, underlie how much this is a collective operation, how much we work together. It's not at all a president deciding everything and orders coming down. It's a whole lot of people working in the interest of common aims and making decisions together. There we are. There we've been for the past three years. In the past three years, the society has undertaken a good number of projects. I'll simply list the most important. One that you might have seen has been a desire to improve the status of translation studies in Wikipedia. We've had a session going downstairs. We've been working on this for some time. This developed from the Gammersheim Congress where we set up a glossary committee. We tried to establish a translation studies glossary as a wiki of its own, an independent wiki. It just wasn't working. We could see people are using public media, Wikipedia in particular. We moved into Wikipedia. We started to do a lot of that work. You can't see that it's us. But it's us. Not all the time. There are others as well. But this has been our initiative all the way it's gone. The International Doctorate in Translation Studies has been a major initiative. It's been a long time coming. We had a very productive meeting on this in Gammersheim. So in three years, we have actually set it up. We have selected the first ten candidates. We'll hear more about that. Not candidates, the ten members. We'll hear more about that in a short while. We have initiated new activities. We conducted a training seminar for translations teachers in Krakow with the universities there and with the participation of experts from other places. That was a success, I think, pedagogically and financially. And I trust that that kind of activity will continue. We've also moved into a new model for the publications of proceedings. We had a series with Benjamins of proceedings of the prior congresses. After Gammersheim, quite frankly, we just got too big to do that, for that to be practical. So we've had a series of publications derived from specific panels, five of which have reached publications so far, and others are still in the works. So I would count that as a success. We have now more than 500 members, 5,000 followers on Facebook, 11,000 likes, which is a lot, about 1,600 or more than 1,600 followers on Twitter. We are reaching a lot of places. This is our website. This is where it's been received, where it's been entered into in the past year. You'll see a focus on Europe, but also the United States, China. We are an international organization. And thanks to that success, we are financially quite well off, as we will now see from Isabel. Thank you, Anthony. I guess you are a happy president. I'm a happy treasurer. As you can see on the slide here, we are doing well. Our financial situation is really healthy. We have almost 60,000 euros in the sets, distributed over four different accounts. And you have to know that three years ago, we had approximately 30,000 euros, which means that we have almost doubled our set. So I think it's a really good thing. Just for information, we have four accounts. PayPal is used because you might have received mails from me, from the treasurer. I use PayPal to receive payments. And if your current account is used for both receiving and making payments, we have savings accounts and the Bawak account in Austria, which is used by very few members. Okay, as Anthony told us, we have been doing fine as far as membership I'm concerned. We have more than 500 paid-up members for this year, which is an 80% increase in comparison with last year, in even 25 compared to two years ago. So it's really fine. And PayPal remains the main method of payment, the one you seem to prefer for the last three years, actually. All right. Let's now turn to our expenses. All figures are rounded, okay? I've been checking the accounts from the very last, from the last Congress three years ago. So I will first start with an overview of 2013 and 2014. We have actually almost each year the same cost items that are our annual grants, like the book purchase grant, the summary event grant, and other reimbursements as well. So we have expenses that are annual and other expenses. For that period, 2013 to 2014, our expenses amounted to approximately 8,000 euros. Then we have 2015, last year, a little bit less. Again, our annual grants, like the purchase grant, the summary grant, and event grant, a few expenses on our website and flyers, which is approximately in total 3,700 euros. Then this year. This year is a Congress year, which is always a little bit more expensive. Again, the same cost items, summer school, event grant, website, content update. We have been investing again in the CRECO training program. In the IDTS meeting, and this year we have spent up till now, approximately 5,700 euros. There are some expenses to come. It's still in 2016, which are the book purchase prize, the young school prize and translation prize still have to be paid, as well as a few expenses, like the rest of the IDTS meeting and the Congress board. So it means that we still have to spend, I guess, approximately 9,000 euros this year. Let's now turn to the bright side of life, our income. Our income comes from fees, actually. That's the most part. When you have a look at the figures, you see that, in average, we have 11,500 euros each year from fees. And some people pay in advance or pay for three years. That's why we always have fees for the next year, like here. We have income from sponsorship and donation, but it's not that much. And we made profit on our Cracker Training for Trainers event, which is not the aim of that event, but that was the case. So our income was approximately 43,000 euros in the last three years. Okay, so the balance is rather positive. We are earning more than we are spending. In average, we spend approximately less than 9,000 euros, and we earn approximately 14,000 euros, and that's why our financial situation has had a theme. This is a draft budget for the next term. I expect that our expenses will amount to approximately 20,000 euros with grants, these annual grants, approximately 7,500. Reimbursements and all kinds of expenses, like investing in the website, for example, and promoting the IDTS network, for example. As far as income is concerned, fees in 2017 won't be that much, since we are offering the fee for the paid members of this year for next year. So it means that we'll have fees from 18 and 19, so I expect approximately 21,000 euros, which means that for the next term, there will be a status quo. We might even have a little deficit. However, I'm really confident about the next term. As you have seen at the beginning, we have 58,000 euros, so I think we are doing fine, and I'm looking forward to work with, if I have the chance, to work with the next team. Thank you. Thank you, Isabel. Isabel Robbert. Treasurer is one of the most thankless tasks in any organization. She's done a wonderful job, and we are very appreciative. I'll move on to a brief report by these committees. I've wanted to show the faces, at least, of everybody who is working in these committees just to give a visual idea of our extension. We give a book purchase grant over the past three years that's gone to Estonia, Argentina, and Croatia. You'll notice that according to our constitution, we are an international organization, despite the name European, and we've been pushing beyond the borders of Europe, as Heller will appreciate. The person in charge of that has been Agnes Somlo, who is here. We'll give you all a big round of applause at the end. Agnes, okay, thank you Agnes, and her committee for that work. The event grant is Madeleina, is Madeleina here? Okay, we will thank her in absentia, with help from a lot of people there. The event grant, I think it's up to a thousand euros, went to Vienna, University of Maryland for a seminar there, and Antwerp in this year. So it's very thanks to all the people in that particular committee as well. When we've on summer school scholarship, this is the one given every year to attend a summer school. Yvonne has been in charge of that, and she's not here. Many thanks to the people in that committee, and the prizes for the scholarships went to Poland. That's, well, he's here, isn't he? I saw his big smiling face, okay? Juho, I don't know how to pronounce him, but he's there in Finland, and Inki, Inki, I don't know how to pronounce that one, either, who's at Amherst in the United States of Turkish origins, okay? So those three people have benefited from the grants. This is one area, I mean, we're not good at spending money, you've noticed. This is one area we could improve. So we would like the next board, perhaps, to consider giving more summer school scholarship grants. We've instituted a translation prize. This was on the suggestion of Aline, no, of various people, okay, who got together. Aline Kamal was in charge of the committee. Isabel has taken it over in recent years with help from quite a lot of people and a different mix of languages. We have decided in the past three years to give financial support to a translation into English or Fedorov from Russian, translation into Chinese, a book on game localization, and 2015 work from Polish into English of a Polish translation theory, okay? And the prize for 2016, we got two in 2015, has yet to be announced, okay? We're still working on that one. I hasten to add, I had somebody come up to me saying, the EST has commissioned a translation from Russian or Fedorov, and you've got the wrong person. You shouldn't translate him, okay? And I don't know, what do I know about it? Perhaps you could get the wrong one, but we got the right translator, I think. Anyway, I said, look, really, no, we didn't commission anything. We open a call, we get proposals and we select from the proposals that come in. So if you're not happy with that, if you want somebody else to be translated from Russian, please put in a proposal. Participate in it. Don't come along and criticize after the fact. Participate in it, present a good proposal. We've got some money, your chances are okay, okay? And we do need more good proposals for this particular grant. The Young Scholar Prize Committee, which has waded through, oh, damn you, oh, yes. Lots and lots of applications, that is doctoral feces. This is given once every three years, it's a substantial prize, and the person in charge of that committee has been Aunt Jakobsen, who is the person who should present it? Would you like to come up and say a few words, Aunt? Before I show the next slide, which has the lucky winner. Is this going to work? So, yeah. Is it okay? I think this is the high point. For me, this is the high point of the general meeting. The announcement of the winner of the EST Young Scholar Prize. We received 42 submissions, and as promised, we reviewed all of them. They were reviewed by three experts. In some cases, the committee members were bold enough to consider themselves experts, but in many cases, we had to rely on external support. Some submissions were in languages that we didn't really know, and some were in subjects that were very far away from what where we considered ourselves experts. But I'd like to thank the members that you see out there for doing really hard work and the many external experts also that we enlisted. I'd like to thank them for their very generous readiness to assist. I must, yeah, thank everybody who contributed. And by a gradual process of selection and deselection, we narrowed down the field of candidates to six, all of which we agreed were very strong candidates for the award, and between them, they illustrated the wonderful variety of young scholarly research in our field, and the way in which boundaries are being moved by these young scholars. In the end, however, we were all agreed that one contribution had an edge above the others in form, in methodological rigor, and in the added value we thought this PhD gives to translation studies. And the title of the submission was Text Producer, The Effects of Writing on Trans-Editing and Translation Performance. Submitted to the University of Antwerp in 2014, and the author of this winning submission is Iris Schreiber. It's going online. Thank you so much. I think it's a great initiative, this young scholar prize. I would like to thank the board and also the committee for assessing all these applications. I would also like to thank my supervisors, Professor Leona van Warenberg and Professor Luc van Raas from the University of Antwerp for their guidance and advice. And maybe for those who are still in the process of finishing their PhD, I know it can be quite challenging, but try to enjoy the ride and keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ant. In the interest of completeness, I show our wonderful newsletter editors who have done some fine work. And I move on to our biggest committee because one of our initiatives has been the International Doctorate in Translation Studies. We've had a steering committee that you can see there. And we've had an advisory committee which is quite extensive. And for the International Doctorate in Translation Studies, we've had an evaluation committee which you can see there, the chair of which is Christina Scheffner, who will now present the results of the first round of evaluation. Okay, well, good afternoon, everybody. We had, at the last ESC Congress in Gamersheim, we had agreed to work towards setting up this International Doctorate in Translation Studies network. And we produced a number of documents. And so the main aim of, you can see here, the main aim of the network of the IDTS is to have a worldwide network of programs in doctoral research in translation studies with the aim that these members of these programs will cooperate, share good ideas, good practice in via cooperating, improve the training in terms of content, the structure we have for support and also working towards joint doctorates. Sorry about that. So we had the initial foundation document has been available on the website. And then the first call was issued with a deadline for the 30s of June 2016. We had produced templates for how to complete the application form. We had a guidance document on the website. And then during the summer, mainly July and August, we worked on the evaluation. And we had initially hoped that the network would be fully operational now from September from the EST Congress, but we need a little bit more time to actually have it fully set up. So the evaluation committee as a subgroup of the EST doctoral committee, we also had a little bit of time to review the membership. So what we did since this is a new initiative and we still need to learn also to see how our documentation, whether it was sufficient, whether it was clear enough, we said that each application was actually looked at by four members of the evaluation committee, which also meant quite a lot of work for us. And we also made sure that we would not look at applications of programs which came from the country whether there was any kind of conflict of interest if anybody had closer links with a particular program. So this was all ruled out to really assure objectivity. And we had then, after we had received all the individual evaluation forms, we then had one meeting at the end of August where we compared our impressions and then agreed. And if a member of the committee was also a member of the program which had applied, we made sure that the prime member was not present at the discussion which was going on. And then our recommendations were then sent to the EST board because this is an initiative on behalf of the EST. So we did not decide of who will be admitted to a network, but we made recommendations to the EST board for approval, confirmation or rejection. So there was quite a number of, a lot of information which we had asked for. We first called, we did not put any quantitative constraints but we wanted the programs to tell us what you are doing. So we also asked, this give us this information attached any kind of supporting document which you may have. This also meant that what we got back from the program was kind of different. So some programs had sent us a lot of additional documents to confirm, others were a bit shorter in the information we had. Also we noticed that the guidance document might not have been so clear in specifying what exactly do we want, what exactly do we mean. So some of the questions were formulated more like a yes and no. So the answer was yes, where we had hoped we could get a bit more information. So what we learned from this process also was that we need to revise the application document to make sure that absolutely everything is clear for you if you want to apply for the next round. So we admitted then 10 programs to the network and it's a network of programs and not universities but here you have the list of the universities from which the programs had been admitted. Antwerp University asked the universities of Belgium, Estonia and the UK, Bailan, Israel, Boazici in Turkey, Bologna, Foley, Italy, Geneva, Switzerland, Krakow, Poland, Leeds, UK, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Vienna from Austria and I think they all deserve a round of applause for being the first members. But with such a small group of programs so the fully operational activities are a bit difficult to set up so that's why our suggestion to the EST what outgoing and incoming was will be that in the coming months so these 10 programs will work together with the EST, a Doctoral Studies Committee fully setting up the network to revise the application forms and other revision which need to be done because the programs which completed the application forms you know best where you struggled with the formulation what we had so we need you also in doing the revision of the forms so we also the documentation, foundation document refers to a board of management to be elected at the general meeting of the IDTS network as a whole ideally to coincide with the EST Congress so this is also something where we need to work in the future and that's why we said that we will not wait for the next three years before we issue the second course because some people also had contacted us saying I would like to apply but the time is too short and need to get some more information together so that the board, EST board has agreed that the 15th of February 2017 will be the deadline for a second course so that more programs can apply for admission and then once the network is bigger than after the second round that then a general meeting with proper elections of a board of management will take place and the exact dates and practicalities will need to be discussed with the ID, EST board but the most important thing is we have fulfilled our aims of having the network so 10 programs are there and these 10 programs can start from tomorrow onwards to share information, to share ideas and start cooperating mainly online properly that's all we need to say from this one much Christina, thank you for the Christina and the committee, all the people in the doctoral studies committee we move on to the most exciting part of our program today and that's voting now we need a code to vote and you need a place to go to vote and somebody is going to explain that no I'll first explain the first thing we have to vote on for some time we've realized that a lot of our bureaucratic energy goes into processing the renewed fees as Isabel can testify and a movement to fix this up is to offer a three year fee for a reduced price we have to do that as the general meeting so that is our first proposition to be voted on do you want to say something? about the technique, did you have web address? no, but you know we have sent information out to you you know that you need to go to the internet is that true? you need to go to the ESC internet, if we don't have the link yet then if you have trouble finding it you could just go to the congress website choose program and go to and pick the general meeting and it will take you all the way generally do you have the internet page that Lucia has been writing emails to you about it is it not on? it is not even on okay so I said again that Lucia has been sending your emails with information about how to with the program can you find that internet page? okay, I wrote the internet address there you should have the address to go through but if you get into the ESC website you get into the ESC website when you click on meeting you get to the internet and then you get the link and then we have to write in a code yes, but we will give you in a second we just need to see that you actually get to the internet page okay, you see any problems? do you have the page there? yes, yes, you will get the code I just wanted to know if you were there okay, so you open the second link on the page and then you will get the code can we write the code, Anthony? what's the code? 65 04 it's not a secret it's just that we didn't want people to start voting alright, that's for the technicalities while you're on that there are two propositions which I think come together because these are easy, not easy but we think we know what you're going to answer the second proposition is a call for full academic freedoms in Turkey my colleagues had a lot of trouble getting here today from Turkey, they have all arrived which is a welcome piece of news but under extreme difficulty requiring permission from the rector and a lot of red tape and at least one university has closed down people losing their jobs I think it's legitimate for us to call here from the floor a very simple proposition that we collectively call for full academic freedoms in Turkey that's proposition number two I invite you to vote as soon as you can exactly you need to vote, Anthony oh, yes, okay yeah, 654 okay, you're voting for the first proposition is that what we agreed to say? yes, that she sent you a mail shortly before the congress and she actually also sent you this is the way of protecting this election so that only members can vote what are you asking for? what? how to? he can't hear you okay so, Wucca, when did you send an email? Tuesday evening, even Tuesday night the night between Tuesday and Wednesday Wucca sent out a mail with instructions and also with the code for the password for the intranet, the EST intranet and asked you to please remember it or bring it, well, we can see that oh, very good oh, I'm voting I've voted, okay has anybody not been able to vote? please raise your hand, there's an age cut off point, of course because you can't get in, the server ah, okay can we move to the next question? can we get everybody? any success? I don't have time to waste on this to be quite honest okay, yeah, Helen doesn't want to congress website instead of, you know, clicking on the intranet whatever works because some people are just entering the intranet and they have, you know, just EST website and they they you've got to go to them okay, for for people getting lost to get to the intranet the thing is to go into the EST website and click on this link up there which takes you to this page which is our agenda for the meeting and there's a link down here to the intranet okay, let's see, who has not been able to vote still? please raise your hand there are but colleagues near you have been able to do it, right? so you can use collective collaborative, I don't know whatever it is distributed cognition this is the first proposition but if we're able to do this one the rest will be easy okay, once you get this one right we're okay Gary's been able to vote yes, he feels good, alright who's still stuck? Aline needs help anybody still need help? or you've just given up okay, I think we'll close the first voting sorry? move to the next proposition please, the next proposition you can see it now, the EST calls for full academic freedoms in Turkey, agree or disagree and that was easy, wasn't it? no, it wasn't easy, has anybody had trouble with that one? and you can even click on and then you can see the voting results let's see, email me the results okay, how can we know the result of the vote? okay, well we'd like to see the vote, yes we've finished voting we'll go to collect manual votes for this one, raise of hands, right? which one? for the proposition that will just be a show of hands okay, that's fine, we have the reason I'd like to, okay as a plan B, please raise your hand if you agree to proposition one, those in favor those against, the ayes have it proposition two on Turkey, those in favor raise your hands those against, the ayes have it wasn't democracy easy before electronic communication do we have some numbers through the electronic voting? yes the next code this is the one we're voting on now can I do raise of hands for this please? please let me do raise of hands yes ladies and gentlemen, now we get to the really exciting part and for this one we're going to use raise of hands now, you may have seen that the candidates for the board have two candidates for vice president and we've been negotiating how to deal with this and a proposition from the only candidate for president is to allow two vice presidents, why not without engaging in any acrimonious confrontation etc he has consulted us, we've consulted the constitution that is possible, we will have to amend the constitution but that's easily done we need a two thirds majority of the people present of the people voting and the proposition is as follows, where it says vice president in the constitution, we now say two or two vice presidents the more profound justification is as you've seen we are growing very fast and too fast and there's a tremendous amount of work being done by these people here we have plenty of work for two vice presidents so it's an ad hoc situation which normally would not justify touching the constitution but it's also a very profound growth phenomenon which can easily justify this amendment so the proposition that is being put forward by the executive board on the suggestion of the future candidate for president is that we adopt this amendment of the constitution are there any comments on the proposition the quorum is for the meeting as such and we can do that by counting how many electronic votes were cast do we know? the voting for the amendment is easy it's two thirds of the votes cast so the amendment is not problematic the quorum of the meeting may well be problematic and we may not count that sorry? we do not have a quorum one moment please, I consult the constitution after 30 minutes yes, thank you after 30 minutes we resume so we will have a pause now for three seconds we now resume it's been half an hour since the beginning of the meeting the quorum is no longer required, we can proceed with the amendment you see literary scholars are good at reading complex texts in creative ways 90 votes, 95 which is really not a quorum it's not even all of you here present okay, I put it to the floor that this proposed amendment be approved those in favor please raise your hands those against please raise your hands very good, I understand your reasons as well it's passed by a vast majority of more than two thirds thank you once that's done the rest is really easy can I just do raise of hands for these ones or not? because the electronic bit it's the last one, that's where we need it the last vote is the one where we need the electronics okay, we've got to practice some more the code is 27 okay, I'm sorry okay, I thought you wanted the other proposition you're now invited to vote for the next president of the European society for translation studies we've received one candidate with a written candidacy, are there further candidates from the floor? well done you're invited to vote electronically, there is your code for this particular round are they all together? you'll see when you get all of them yes? okay, you will see one candidate with that number for president, you'll see two candidates where you can vote for two, maximum you'll see one candidate for secretary general who is continuing and one candidate for treasurer who is continuing okay, is that right? and the number is up there oh, you're allowed to have a no vote a blank vote a abstention vote whatever you want to call it you're not able to get in there and vote? you voted for president? let's continue, who has not voted for president? okay oh, damn it actually, we've got tons of time, we're okay there's only one candidate, come on how are we going? who has not voted for president? have 90, I think that's good enough I'd like you to vote for vice president where there are two candidates and the possibility of a no vote you have a maximum of two votes any questions on this? it doesn't show, I'm told what's the matter? can we show that? that was our decision not to show in the process there's a lot of things going up, you see we don't want to show you we've had four written candidacies distributed twice haven't read the bloody, no, for the next one we get presentations you have received four written candidacies in many cases three times, in some cases twice to allow for the technical problems I haven't asked for statements from the candidates because they're written I will ask for a statement from the president whoever he may be so you've almost finished voting for vice president let's move on to secretary general okay, but we're still okay okay, you voted for secretary general let's move on to treasurer, please vote for treasurer if we get to 60 we'll stop, is that okay? okay, oh and no it's not the last, we've got treasurer good, okay now, while you're finishing that vote and we'll get the final the final tallies for the actual board members we have four available places in the board and we have five candidates in this particular place I will ask for brief statements from the candidates which could be one minute, two minutes, but there's no need for more extensive statements since we have distributed the written candidacies do we have a microphone available for the first candidate alphabetically is Nune Aivasian who is invited the results first, that was the idea do not go to this round until we see the results for vice president so we need to do it from the next vote this is our list is this our list? yes, you've got it there so the people on this list are you prepared just to make a very brief statement, convince us all as best you can okay, Nune yes, I'm asked to go there please do thank you everyone for being here my name is Nune Aivasian, my host university is Universidad Rovira y Virgili in Darahona, Spain currently I'm a doctoral student I'm close to crossing the finish line so I presented my candidacy because I do believe that we have a considerable proportion of doctoral students in our society and I would really like to be their voice in this society, represent their interests and concerns, and I do believe that we need this because as the society is growing and I do believe that we need more doctoral students to engage in this process and another thing that I'm concerned about is to engage into interdisciplinary discourse to expand the boundaries as we're saying, of translation studies going beyond translation interpreting but engaging in discourse with language education, politics, all sorts of topics so basically everything else is in the booklets, if there are questions I would be very happy to answer, thank you thank you very much, hello a brief statement running for re-election in fact perhaps you know me, I've been I've been organizing this congress and right now I think I'm running the online election so I don't have my head to censoring myself so well my reason actually for standing this time was to support the coming organizers because these congresses are growing and I thought it would make good sense to actually have somebody in the board who's just been through it so that's what I suggest, well whatever Jonathan? I'm Jonathan Downey you may recognise me from such books as the one outside my main interest in standing on the board is to increase the links between research and practice, I recently finished my PhD at Heriot-Wood University I'm on the board of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting in the UK and there's a push now from the profession to gain more data so that people after they graduate can be trained more effectively can develop better and having seen so far what we've seen in this conference, there's a push in academia to do more work with communities on foreign with professional translation and interpreting communities so I feel like what I would like to do is act as a bridge between the professional world and the research world and look at building partnership schemes between the two worlds to show that research and practice are two sides of the same coin Thank you very much, Maureen My name is Maureen Ehrensberger the Maureen is Canadian, the Ehrensberger is Swiss, I'm based in Switzerland, I do workplace research, interdisciplinary research and I'm getting to the time where I see the end of my career approaching I've been very welcomed in the translation studies community and I would like to give back some of what it's given to me Thank you very much I'm Elizabeth Ticelius, I'm from Stockholm in Sweden, I represent interpreting very much, I'm in all the ins and outs of interpreting I was trying to think of a field of interpreting where I have not tried to at least do a little bit I believe in creating a common ground for interpreting I believe in joining forces with sign language interpreting, research on interpreting which is outside the professional sector I believe in researching professional aspects of interpreting and cognitive aspects of interpreting and I think that interpreting needs strong representation in the board Thank you very much, are there further candidates from the floor? Just as well I now invite you to vote and we have to give you the code The code is now up there for you I'm going to go down Can we ask them to come? Yes, an innocent house I think you have finished, you have voted Thank you very much, anybody still in it? Okay, we have paper votes which can be cast Why they count, we can put these onto, what can we do now, to show them I can email the results No, just connect the computer The stream is connected to this Yeah, that will be, that will be great Yeah, just an email and then we find our email Can you have one to give me Anthony Dotpin The anti-HRNY Okay, so we will email to you Oh shit, okay Very nice Yeah, but I'll show the, we can see the results for the first votes, we're still counting for the last one Okay, so well done You've agreed to reduce your fee for three years Please use it That's a lovely result Then I have to go back to my email Apparently, I have to go to my account to continue there, because that was the first round Yeah, so I have to get the next link The amendment was just The amendment was a show of hands, so we did remarkably well, aunt has a 91% majority That's congratulations We'll ask for a speech when we get through the results Is that okay? Right, okay Luke and Kiriaki are elected vice presidents Congratulations to them Wichita, you can continue Isabel, you can continue It's exciting, isn't it? Electronics Technology So you need to add in principle Okay, Nune Ivesyan has eight electronic plus eight paper plus that is 61 Heller has 75 plus nine is 84 Jonathan has 57 plus five is 62 Nune had how many? Yeah, exactly, so we need to take care here Okay, so Nune 61 and this is... Maureen has 75 plus nine, Elizabeth has 75 plus eight, I'll go back and count again Nune Ivesyan, 53 electronic plus eight on paper makes 62 That makes 61 61, 61, 61 Sorry Nune, my mathematics is... and Jonathan has 57 plus five, which makes 62 That's not fair I hereby declare elected to the board Heller, Jonathan Dane, Maureen, Erinsberg-Dau and Elizabeth Delissius Congratulations to those candidates The next piece of business actually not in the order presented on the on the agenda is the next conference venue and I should explain here firstly that the organizers of the venue automatically get one person in the board but I'll be asking for a raise of hands to confirm that Now, we received, if I remember seven good candidacies for the venue We were embarrassed by the richness and the quality of the proposals we had to choose between This was a very long process by all members of the board We selected two candidates and I should be public knowledge that one was the University of Ghent in Belgium, which was a very strong candidacy and the other was from Stellenbosch University in South Africa We went back to both those institutions and asked for further information We had some specific questions on financing and costs We got that, we discussed it We discussed it again We voted, we voted again and our final decision was for Stellenbosch I invite the representatives of Stellenbosch to come and present the candidacy It's pushing boundaries, you see Professor Pym, Professor Jacobson New board members and fellow EST members We are now busy exploring the moving of boundaries It is my great pleasure to share the crossing of one more significant boundary with you In three years from now in September 2019 we will be making history by presenting the ninth EST Congress in Africa at Stellenbosch University South Africa is a country where 11 official and many other languages are in daily contact This foregrounds diversity and creates many thought-provoking juxtapositions and parallels for anyone working in translation studies We are confident that hosting the ninth EST Congress in Africa is a strong confirmation of the dynamic nature of translation studies not only on scientific or institutional levels but also on the level of physical geography Stellenbosch is about half an hour's drive from Cape Town International Airport Founded in 1679 Stellenbosch is South Africa's oldest town With its oak-lined streets and its picturesque architecture it is certainly one of the most beautiful Well, I'm not objective Stellenbosch University is a world-class, multilingual research-orientated institution The university has ten faculties housed on five campuses It is home to more than 30,000 students a third of which are postgraduate The Congress will be hosted by the Department of Africants and Dutch in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Translation, including interpreting and editing has formed a core element of the department's academic activities for more than 30 years Currently, the department offers four postgraduate programs in translation including a master's a PhD and a postgraduate diploma Our academic activities are underpinned by research in field spanning Africants and Dutch literature literary studies, linguistics and related applied fields such as lexicography and language acquisition The main lecture hall at the Congress venue can accommodate 350 participants and additional halls are available for parallel sessions All rooms are equipped with computers, data projectors and sound systems Also available are electronic classrooms for interactive presentations or demonstrations and a large open space suitable for poster presentations The venue has wireless internet access as well as ample space and seating for refreshment breaks Stellenbosch is a well-known tourist destination in its own right providing a wide range of accommodations suited to all tastes and budgets The town is synonymous with excellence in winemaking and home to a number of the country's leading restaurants The surrounding landscape features numerous award-winning wine farms many of which offer cellar tours, markets, restaurants and breathtaking scenery Visitors interested in arts and culture can choose from art galleries, museums, theatres and historical tours The historic town centre is a shopping destination of note with arts and crafts, stalls, gift shops, jewellers and booksellers Nature lovers can visit the local botanical gardens and nature reserves Cape Town, another world-class tourist destination is located less than an hour's drive from Stellenbosch Taking the cable car up Iconic Table Mountain offers magnificent views of South Africa's mother city Cape Point, the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Robin Island and the V&A Waterfront are all within easy reach Visitors can dine at the city's numerous restaurants and visit its blue flag beaches The more adventurous can enjoy activities including shark, cage diving, scuba diving, up-sailing and many others From Cape Town, one could easily visit the rest of South Africa's attractions such as the Kruger National Park So we really look forward to your joining us in Stellenbosch for the 2019 EST Congress as we zoom in on the theme Living Translation Studies Thank you Thank you That was Ilse Finehauer for those who don't know Ilse already My remaining duty... Firstly, look, in the interest of disclosure I am currently an extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University Our board has a very strict recusal guideline so I did not participate in those votes in discussions at all and we do this systematically for everything where a member of the board has an interest Now, one remaining member of the incoming executive board should therefore be Professor Ilse Finehauer from Stellenbosch University All those in favor of her inclusion in the board please raise your hand All those against? Well done Okay, so we can see you all in Stellenbosch we hope, in three years' time I therefore declared elected the entire incoming executive board and all office holders and it's my pleasure to call on the incoming president Art Jartlson to say a few words on behalf of those elected members Many, many thanks to everybody here I'm here for you I am incredibly honored by the trust that you have placed in me I would not have dared to assume this without the hope of very experienced members continuing on the board I will be totally dependent on their expertise The prospect is also daunting, I think because I think the outgoing board and Anthony perhaps in particular has been so successful in developing Est to beyond anything that could be imagined a few years ago I think we should give the outgoing members a round of applause for the work that they have done and the one who perhaps deserves the biggest applause is the one over there in the corner, Anthony I started my itinerary into this by making a huge blunder because in a statement that I had to write rather quickly I forgot to include one very important member of the board who was running for re-election We are totally dependent and I apologize to Hilli We will really need you on board and your expertise in the planning of the next conference I didn't know that the board was going to vote for Stelenbosch but the prospect of having the next EST Congress in Stelenbosch would have been a strong motivation I have to say in running for president so thank you all of you and also I really look forward to working with the new board members I will make sure that we have contact with the PhDs also I think you had a very important point there we will see to it that the interests of PhD students is taken care of so thank you all Are there questions and points from the floor? Yes please Aline In Germanic tradition yes You can vote now raise your hand if you agree to discharge the old board All those in favor of discharging me Well done, against I think the eyes have it I consider myself discharged and the non incoming members Further points, questions? Look I've saved too much time I was really worried about the technology and I wanted to save lots of time for that it wasn't that bad was it? So we do have time for discussion if there are any points to be raised Not hella has lots of time to prepare her dancing shoes for the dinner and I hereby close the general meeting of the European society for translation studies Many thanks for attending