I’m delighted to welcome Helen Smith today, a freelance translator based in Oxford, UK. She obtained a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages (French and Spanish) from the University of Oxford, and then worked for 5 years at a top 50 City of London law firm, where she trained and qualified as a solicitor. You can find out more about Helen from her website.
Helen kindly offered to report on the recent Oxford conference on the Unitary Patent for those of us who weren’t able to attend. Over to you Helen!
The next Global Legal Skills conference (GLS-9) is to be held at the University of Verona Faculty of Law, in Verona, Italy. The conference will begin in the late afternoon of Wednesday 21 May and continue through Friday 23 May 2014.
Next year’s CIUTI forum (the International Standing Conference of University Institutes of Translating and Interpreting) will be held from Thursday 16 January 2014 to Friday 17 January 2014, at the United Nations, Palais des Nations,
in Geneva, Switzerland.
Within the setting of an annual conference, usually in Geneva, stakeholders in translator and interpreter (T&I) training, research, and practice are invited to discuss T&I-related problems and solutions, current trends, and anticipated developments.
Following yesterday’s post on the Oxford conference on the new unitary patent system, I thought readers might like to know that there will also be a conference in Milan, at the University of Milano-Bicocca, to be held on Friday 27 September 2013.
The conference is supported by the European Commission Representation in Italy, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property – Italian Group (AIPPI).
The Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, and the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia, present a conference entitled Perspectives on the Unitary (EU) Patent System, to be held on 4 & 5 October 2013, at the Ship Street conference centre, Jesus College, Oxford, UK.
The conference is CPD accredited by the Bar Standards Board and the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
The final conference of the European Union project PICT (Promoting Intercultural Competence in Translators) is to be held on Friday 27 September 2013 from 9 am to 4pm at the Alliance Française in Paris.
Following last year’s successful event (see here, and my reports linked at the end of this post), the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission is organizing two days on 24 and 25 October 2013.
The International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis, founded in 2000 by Prof. Malcolm Coulthard, addresses topics to do with the role, shape and evidential value of language in legal and forensic contexts.
It was created in response to a growing demand for a course affording an overview of forensic linguistics while also laying solid foundations for a further study of this relatively new branch of applied linguistics.
The Ionian University, in the Greek island of Corfu is to host the first simulation of UNESCO organized in Greece, SimUnesCO Corfu. The conference will be held from August 21-24.
The 3rd European Legal English Teachers’ Association (EULETA) Legal English Workshop, Training Our Students To Use Plain English, is to be held on 28 September 2013 at the Language Centre, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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