Dear readers, across the globe, I wish you positivity for 2023. I’ve chosen a green theme for the greetings this year, thinking of our precious planet.
Thank you once again for following this blog, for spreading the word on LinkedIn, by tweet or otherwise.
Looking forward to meeting some of you at the Cambridge conference in late January, and to continuing this journey.
Peace, happiness, and success to you all.
Le gouvernement du Manitoba, Direction de la traduction législative et parlementaire est à la recherche d’un traducteur-réviseur chevronné, curieux et créatif ayant le désir d’exceller dans son travail.
Le candidat choisi sera bien épaulé et œuvrera au sein d’une équipe de gens respectueux et passionnés où l’effort intellectuel est valorisé et où une étroite collaboration est encouragée, y compris avec les rédacteurs législatifs. Il devra travailler sur place et doit être légalement autorisé à travailler au Canada. Continue reading
The African Union is seeking a Portuguese Translator (from English/French) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to translate official documents.
The appointment will be made on a regular term contract for a period of three (3) years, of which the first twelve months shall be considered as a probationary period. Thereafter, the contract will be for a period of two years renewable, subject to satisfactory performance and deliverables. Continue reading
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 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
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
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
Cambridge, England, is the location for the upcoming WordstoDeeds conference “Legal Translation and Risk” from 28 to 29 January 2023. Today I wanted to give you a taste of the place we’ll be going to – maybe you’ll even be tempted to book and stay a few days longer!
(On the right you can see the famous ‘Mathematical Bridge’ allegedly designed by Isaac Newton, see here and here.) Continue reading
EUROCONTROL, the a pan-European, civil-military organisation dedicated to supporting European aviation, is seeking two translators – one into French, one into English.
Within the Office of the Director General, the Central Secretariat provides translation of documents from and into any of the official Agency languages, proofreading, interpretation and the provision of assistance to internal and external translators, interpreters and stakeholders in general for their specific terminological queries. Continue reading
The Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) will become a reality in April 2023. It will have a profound and lasting impact on the European patent landscape. Described by EPO President, António Campinos, as “the most important change in the European patent system since the EPO took up its operations in 1977”, it will inevitably bring about a significant change to the patent strategies of businesses and patent advisors alike. Continue reading
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