After a two-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to announce that the Transius Talk Series will resume this year.
On Monday 28 November 2022, Sophie WEERTS (University of Lausanne) will give a lecture entitled “Le cadre juridique de la traduction institutionnelle dans les États plurilingues : éclairage historique sur les cas de la Suisse et de la Belgique”. It will take place at 12.15pm (CET time) in Geneva. Continue reading
The Department of Legal, Language, Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Trieste is organising a conference entitled “Legal translation: academia and practice in dialogue” from 1 to 2 December 2022 – which will also be streamed.
The conference’s main aim is to provide a forum for dialogue between scholars and practitioners with a shared interest in legal translation. The conference starts on Thursday, 1 December 2022, at 15:00, and ends on Friday, 2 December 2022, at 18:00. The conference will consist of three panels and the papers will be delivered in Italian or in English. Continue reading
I’ve been waiting for the publication of this tome for ages. And here it finally is!
Résumé: L’ouvrage aborde les aspects essentiels de la traductologie dans de nombreux pays d’Europe, d’Asie, du Moyen-Orient et du Maghreb, d’Amérique du nord, d’Amérique du sud et d’Océanie, que ce soit sur le plan de l’histoire, de la théorie, de l’enseignement ou de la pratique de la traduction.
Nombre de pages: 850 Continue reading
The European Central Bank has four vacancies for trainee lawyer-linguists in the following: German, French, Italian and English as main language.
Hurry to apply for the German vacancy (closes today), although the English vacancy closes on 1 December, the Italian vacancy closes on 2 December, and the French vacancy closes on 5 December. Continue reading
A Canadian Symposium on Language and Law will take place at York University, Toronto, Canada from 16-18 June 2023.
The Canadian Symposium on Language and Law will draw together both researchers and practitioners from all areas of language and law (e.g., linguistics, psychology, sociolegal studies, policing, law) and those working within the often siloed subfields such as jurilinguistique, jurilinguistics, legal linguistics, and forensic linguistics, in order to build a research network that will facilitate the coalescence and growth of the field in Canada and will address Canadian justice issues. Continue reading
Rendez-vous le 8 décembre 2023 pour la 2ème conférence du cycle dédié à la thématique transversale de l’ISIT en 2022-23 : “Paix, justice et institutions efficaces”. Le thème : le droit d’accès à la justice pour les étrangers : volet juridique et linguistique. Continue reading
This week Twitter served up a delightful error from 2016:
My British publisher replaced pants with trousers and the book WENT TO PRINT with the word occutrousers.
Which brought to mind this similar gem: Continue reading
We are having a French week on the blog so far, n’est-ce pas ?😊
“Le grand lexique français de l’intelligence artificielle est le premier outil exhaustif de référence de langue française en science des données et en intelligence artificielle pour la fonction publique, les entreprises, la recherche et l’enseignement. Continue reading
A French smile today…
Poète et dramaturge illustre de la Restauration, admiré par Victor Hugo, Alexandre Soumet disait de son gendre Beuvain d’Altenheim, linguiste reputé et peu loquace : Continue reading
A reader of this blog who was present at the 2022 Translating Europe Forum in Brussels, Belgium, organized by the European Commission, let us know that the topic of risk and machine translation came up as a result of an audience question.
As you probably have noticed (!) – that is precisely the topic of the upcoming WordstoDeeds Conference – Legal Translation and Risk to be held in Cambridge on 28-29 January 2023. Continue reading
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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