The Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, together with the International Association of English in Law and Insurance is running a workshop on teaching legal English that will take place on Wednesday 19th November 2014, from 10 am to 4 pm.
Category Archives: Conferences
Conference – CIUTI Forum 2015, Geneva, Switzerland
The annual CIUTI forum (the International Standing Conference of University Institutes of Translating and Interpreting) will be held from 15-16 January 2015, at the United Nations, Palais des Nations,
Geneva, Switzerland.
Next year’s event is entitled “Pillars of communication in times of uncertainty“.
Thursday, 15th January 2015
- Opening Ceremony
- Breakthrough to be made in Interdisciplinary Research in interface with Translating & Interpreting
- Top level planning, identification and goals in Translating & Interpreting
- The Role of Supranational Bodies and Institutions
- King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation
Friday, 16th January 2015
- Openness and Inclusiveness – Core Issues of Collaboration
- EURASIA and the Silk Road Belt
- Transnational Private-Public Partnership
- Degrees of institutionalization and their Influence on Effectiveness and Efficiency
- On Deterritorialization of Translation Services
- Preserving Confidentiality and Credibility – a Problem for Translation in the Cloud
- Closing ceremony
To download the programme and register, see the forum website here.
If you’re curious, the picture above of Geneva pillars, by John & Met Kots, shows the International Labour Organization building.
Symposium: On Becoming a Legal Translator, London, UK
The University of Roehampton and the open-access Journal of Specialised Translation are organizing a one-day event on Friday 9 January 2015 at the University of Roehampton, London, UK entitled Becoming a Legal Translator: a symposium.
Conference – Interpreter-mediated communication with children
During a final two-day conference on 13 and 14 November 2014 in Antwerp, Belgium, the findings of the Co-Minor-IN/QUEST project will be presented.
Keynote speakers from various professional fields (police, justice, psychology, child support and interpreting) will discuss current practices in interpreter-mediated communication with children, particularly in the pre-trial phase of criminal cases.
Conference – Theories, practices & instruments of forensic linguistics
A conference entitled “Theories, practices and instruments of forensic linguistics”, is being organized from 1-3 December 2014 jointly by the Sapienza University of Rome and the University Roma Tre.
The conference is an innovative mix of physical and virtual attendance.
Conference – From Classroom to Workplace, Portsmouth, UK
As you have probably noticed, one of my pet enthusiasms is bringing together academia and professionals. So this year’s Annual Translation Conference, the 14th in fact, to be held in Portsmouth, UK, is right up my street.
July-August 2014 digest
For those who have been away in the last few weeks, here’s a digest of some key posts from July and August.
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Conference – TRANSIUS, Geneva, Switzerland
The Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius) will hold its first international conference on 24-27 June 2015.
It will be a joint conference combining two complementary events: a conference on Law, Translation and Culture (LTC5) organised in collaboration with the Multicultural Association of Law and Language (MALL), and a legal and institutional translation seminar organised in collaboration with IAMLADP’s Universities Contact Group (UCG).
Roundtable in Forensic Linguistics 2014, Mainz, Germany
The Second Annual Roundtable in Forensic Linguistics is to be held from September 5th ‐ 7th in Mainz, Germany, organized by the The Germanic Society of Forensic Linguistics (GSFL).
Conference – Corpus use, Alicante, Spain
The IV International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate is to be held from 27-29 May, 2015 at the University of Alicante, Spain.
As you will see from the call for papers below, the organizers are very keen that the conference be attended by, be useful to, and involve as speakers, professional translators.
Various studies dealing with the use of corpora in applied translation studies, and in translation training and professional practice in particular, have been published over the last decade, most of them carried out by scholars.
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