Call for papers – EULETA Legal English Conference VIII

The EULETA Legal English Conference VIII will be held from Friday 22nd to Saturday 23rd September 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, co-organised by Kozminski University Language Centre and EULETA, the European Legal English Teachers’ Association.

EULETAʼs membership is made up of many people working in different capacities in legal English, for example: lawyers, linguists, translators, legal English trainers for professionals, and legal English university professors. Continue reading

Video guide to EU call for tenders

The European Commission has helpfully produced a video guide to assist potential applicants interested in the new call for tenders for translation services (#TRAD23).

The video contains four presenations:

  • an overview of outsourcing at DG Translation
  • the specificities of the TRAD23 call for tenders
  • preparation of your bid
  • an overview of how the tenders will be evaluated.

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HCCH adopts Spanish as third official language

In a historic decision this week, Spanish was adopted as third official language of the HCCH – Hague Conference on Private International Law as of 1 July 2024.

The official announcement notes: “It is a triumph for multilinguism & multilateralism benefiting over 24 member States & treaty parties & 700M people worldwide. The decision will foster participation at HCCH meetings of Spanish & Portuguese speaking countries & a better implementation of the conventions benefiting all States parties connected by the conventions worldwide”. Continue reading

Survey on ergonomics and health among translators and editors

The estimable Emma Goldsmith, a medical translator with a background in nursing, is conducting an anonymous survey to gain an overview of workstation set-ups, break strategies, and upper-body problems of translators and editors, and to investigate how respondents counteract the negative impact of working long hours at the computer.

The survey, on the platform ‘EU Survey‘ made available by the European Commission, has 18-35 questions (depending on your responses) and will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. Continue reading

Call for proposals for Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference 

A Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference to be held on Friday 13 October 2023, with pre-conference workshops on Thursday 12 October. The conference will be held at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah.

Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. The organizers are open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Continue reading