ADLAB Project

This page includes a list of presentations relating directly to audio description in different realms (cinema, TV, museums, etc.) produced by the ADLAB partners during the project lifetime. Most presentations are in a PDF format and they can be downloaded. The page also includes videos that have been produced during the project lifetime and that have a direct relation to the project itself. Some relevant extra material is included at the end of this page, where a list of the main activities undertaken is drawn up.

 

AD-related Presentations, Seminars, Posters

Chmiel, A., & Mazur, I. (2013, September). ADLAB. Short (recorded) presentation about ADLAB presented at a meeting devoted to cultural inclusion of the blind and partially sighted called “Inclusion of the Excluded”, organized by the De Facto Foundation in Plock, Poland.

Chmiel, A., & Mazur, I. (2014, April). New trends in Translation Studies: Audio description and computer-assisted interpreter training. Paper presented for the celebration of the Faculty of English of the University Adam Mickiewicz entitled “111 Years of English Studies in Poznań”.

Mazur, I. (2013, September). Audio description crisis points: Insights from the ADLAB project. Paper presented at the 5th Media For All Conference – Audiovisual translation: Expanding borders. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Remael, A. & Reviers, N. (2013, March). Audio description for live performances: The role of the introduction. Paper presented at the 4th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD 2013). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Taylor, C. (2013, March). The ADLAB project and some ideas on audio description.  Paper presented at the 4th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD 2013). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Neves, J. (2012, January). Sessão 8: Acessibilidades [Session 8: Accessibility]. Workshop held under the Research project “Museus da Cidade do Porto: desafios para a construção de territórios. Impactos sociais: que visões e que valores?”, developed by the Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do
Porto em parceria com a Câmara Municipal do Porto. Porto, Museu do Carro Elétrico, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, February). Audio description in Museums. Workshop held at Imperial College of London, UK.

Neves, J. (2012, February). Audio description: Practices and Scenarios. Workshop held at the Universitat de Vic, Barcelona, Spain.

Neves, J. (2012, March). Integrar estudantes com necessidades educativas especiais no Instituto Politécnico de Leiria [Integrating students with special educational needs in the IPL]. Acção conjunta iACT / SAPE / CRID. Teacher training workshop held at the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Leiria, Peniche, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, March). Conversas informais: O Menino dos Dedos Tristes [Informal conversations: The boy with sad fingers]. Talk given at the Os professores escrevem: a leitura inclusiva. Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, March). Comunicação em Formato Alternativo [Alternative communication format]. Lecture given at the Seminar on Utilização Pedagógica das TIC – UPTIC EM MARÇO. Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, March). Audiodescrição: imagens que se ouvem [Audio description: Images to be heard]. Paper presented at the Colóquio Biblioteca Sonora da BPMP: 40 anos a dar voz aos livros. Biblioteca Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, April). Audio description – Advanced Practice. Workshop held at Imperial College of London, UK.

Neves, J. (2012, May). Tradução para uma comunicação acessível – legendagem para Surdos e audiodescrição para cegos [Translation for accessible communication - Subtitling for the deaf and audio description for the blind]. Paper presented the Conferência no âmbito do evento “À Conversa com…”. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, June). Novos desafios e oportunidades da TAV [New challenges and opportunities of TAV]. Paper presented at the Conferência no âmbito da Jornada Final das Olimpíadas da Legendagem. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, June). Assim se fazem museus inclusivos [So if museums are inclusive]. Paper presented at the Encontro sobre Inclusão Cultural e Acessibilidade em Museus. Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Pelotas, Brasil.

Neves, J. (2012, June). Imagens para tocar – do bidimensional ao tridimensional [Images to touch - from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional]. 4-hour workshop held at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Pelotas, Brasil.

Neves, J. (2012, June). Audiodescrição [Audio description]. Workshop  held at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Pelotas, Brasil.

Neves, J. (2012, July). Para um mundo mais inclusivo – Momento de reflexão sobre estratégias de inclusão ao alcance de todos [For a more comprehensiove world - Moment of reflection on inclusion strategies for everyone]. Paper presented at the III Seminário Ibérico – Percursos em Educação Especial. Agrupamento de Escolas de Maximinos. Escola Secundária Carlos Amarante, Escolas de Referência para a educação de alunos cegos e com baixa visão e Centro de Formação de Associação de Escolas Braga-Sul. Braga, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, July). Colóquio Sobre Educação Inclusiva: Diálogos Português-Brasil. Contribution presented at the Universidade de Feevale – Instituto de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas. ICHLA. Curso de
Pedagogia. Novo Hamburgo, Brasil.

Neves, J. (2012, October). @Conteúdos [@Contents]. Paper presented at EI@IES Lisboa 2012 – 2º Encontro de Instituições e Unidades de e-Learning do Ensino Superior. Laboratório de Educação a Distância e e-Learning da Universidade Aberta, Unidade de Ensino a Distância do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria e e-Learning Lab da Universidade de Lisboa. Museu da Telecomunicações, Lisboa, Portugal.

Neves, J. (2012, November). A audiodescrição como recurso para o desenvolvimento de competências de leitura r escrita [Audio description as a resource for developing reading and written skills]. Paper presented at the IV Encontro de Didática de Português. Os meios audiovisuais e a legendagem no ensino do português.Instituto Camões e Associação de Docentes de Português na Galiza. Vigo, Spain.

Neves, J. (2012, November). Introduction to audio description. Workshop held at Imperial College of London, UK.

Neves, J. Roberto, M. T., & Díaz Cintas, J. (2012, June). Inclusive communication strategies for accessible museums. Poster presented during a Research Day at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Orero, P. (2013, May). ADLAB. Paper presented at the 3rd International Translation Conference – Translation: New Destinations, Yildiz Technical University, Istambut, Turkey.

Perego, E. (2012, April). Audio description: Overview on an emerging topic. Seminar given at the Department of English, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Perego, E. (2014, April) AD – corso breve. Teoria e pratica dell’audio descrizione cinematografica per i ciechi e gli ipovedenti [AD - a short course. Theory and practices of cinema audio description for the blind and the visually impaired audiences]. Seminar given at the University of Udine, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Remael, A. (2012, May). Audio-description with audio-subtitling: Making multilingual Dutch films accessible. Paper presented at the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies (CATS), Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

Remael, A. (2012, November). The textual complexity of audio-description with audio-subtitling. Making multilingual films accessible for the blind and partially sighted. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media – Languages & The Media 2012, Berlin, Germany.

Remael, A. (2012, December). From audio visual translation to media accessibility. Audio-description and audio-subtitling: challenges and opportunities. Lecture given at the conference of the Australian Association of Translators and Interpreters (AUSIT), Sydney, Australia.

Remael, A., Reviers, N., & Vercauteren, G. (2012, September). ADLAB project. Audio description: Lifelong access for the blind. Poster presented at the EST Symposium: Same place, different times. University of Vienna, Austria.

Taylor, C. (2012, April). Film language and audio description: Two genres in one. Presentation at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong.

Taylor, C. (2012, May). ADLAB. Seminar given at the Department of English, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Taylor, C. (2012, October). ADLAB: Life Long Access for the Blind. Presentation of ADLAB to the National Association of Italian Language Centres at a Conference on European Projects, Università della Calabria, Italy [ The presentation wins first prize in competition]

Taylor, C. (2011, October). Film language and audio description: Two genres in one. Presentation before the Latin American Systemic-Functional Linguistics Association at the VII International Conference From Genre to Clause: SFL Contributions to the  Study of Language in Society. Universidade Estadual do Ceará/UECE, Fortaleza – Ceará – Northeastern Brasil.

Taylor, C. (2011, December). Adlab. Presentation of project made at the inauguration of ValsuganaTV (developed by ADLAB partner Senza Barriere) at Scurelle, Italy. [The presentation was made before an audience of local politicians, media figures and service providers].

 

ADLAB-related videos

Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (2012). Audio description at the theatre.  [Video excerpt]. Subtitled by Erik De Snerck.

Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (2012). Inglourious Basterds (Q. Tarantino, 2009), with Flemish audio track for the blind [Video excerpt]. Audio described by Ludo Schats. [Part 1] [Part2]

 

Other

Leão Mianes, F. (2013, March 13). Audiodescritor em Foco – Entrevista com Josélia Neves [Web log post].

Online Research Center for Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation (ORCAAT): this is an open access resource centre   dedicated to promoting academic investigation by ensuring more efficient bibliographical research in the fields of accessibility and audiovisual translation

 

*** Archive of main activities

CFP for the 4th ARSAD conference (2013, March). The TransMedia Catalonia Research Group,at the CAIAC research center, and the EU project ADLAB (Audio Description: Lifelong Access for the Blind) are organizing the 4th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD), to be held in Barcelona on 13-14 March 2013. This international two-day seminar, sponsored by SUB-TI, SUB-TI ACCESS and FRED, aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in order to advance the knowledge of current Audio Description practices and research. Click here for the call for papers.

The second Work Package 2 meeting (and steering group meeting) has been held in Barcelona (organized by the UAB partner) on 15th March, 2013. This has been in conjunction with the ARSAD conference (13-14th March, 2013), exclusively devoted to audio description, and which has provided the platform for the outreach meeting before national and international stakeholder guests.

An ADLAB Day took place on April 19th, 2013 in Trieste bringing together experts and providers in Italy. The audio track of each presentation will be made available soon. The Power Point presentations used by some presenters can be dowloaded clicking on the PPT links. All the material is in Italian.

•  Paolo Pittaro (Direttore Dipartimento IUSLIT) Lorenza Rega (Vice Direttore Dipartimento IUSLIT) Chris Taylor (ADLAB) Saluti di apertura
•  Vera Arma (CulturAbile) L’audiodescrizione: Stato dell’arte e prospettive di mercato in Italia [PPT]
• Vincenzo Zoccano (Consulta Provinciale Disabili di Trieste) L’importanza delle audio descrizioni per le persone con disabilità visiva e non solo
• Carla Lugli (Speaker, doppiatrice, giornalista e conduttrice radiofonica freelance) L’uso della voce nell’audio descrizione [PPT]
• Vera Marchesi (Laureata SSLMIT) Tradurre le audio descrizioni [PPT]
• Mariapaola Dell’Orto (Laureata SSLMIT) L’audio introduzione filmica: Una nuova tecnica verso l’accessibilità [PPT]
• Eraldo Busarello (Senza Barriere Onlus) Cos’è la Cooperativa Senza Barriere Onlus
• Elisa Perego, Bernd Benecke (Dipartimento IUSLIT, Bayerischer Rundfunk) Aspetti tecnici dell’audio descrizione
• Chris Taylor (ADLAB) Chiusura dei lavori