The PCR section requests motivated individuals to volunteer as Language Facilitators for the PCR section’s panels during the annual conference of IAMCR to be held from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The twenty-four public panels of the PCR section (13 panels are in English, 2 panels are in Spanish and the rest are mixed language panels - English & Spanish) are built on the basis of their thematic affinity, with the aim of bringing together academics and researchers working on the same issues, irrespective of the language of their presentation.
To achieve this goal, we would appreciate bi-lingual speakers in English and Spanish to help us with language facilitation during the conference. As a language facilitator, you would be involved in summarising key points of papers after the presentation and facilitating the discussions between English and Spanish speakers during the interactive parts of the panel. This would be a great opportunity to help your colleagues, and stimulate a trans-regional and trans-linguistic dialogue. It would also give you an insight into the work of the PCR section.
In case you are interested in volunteering as a Language Facilitator for the PCR section at the IAMCR 2017, please write an email of interest to Ana Guilhermina Seixas Duarte Melo at anamelo (at) ics.uminho.pt. While we do not expect each of the volunteers to be present during the entire duration of the conference, it would be appreciated if you could intimate in your email, what days and sessions (pre-lunch or post-lunch) would you be available to help as language facilitators.