A two-day virtual symposium from 3 to 4 May 2022 will bring together stakeholders including United Nations staff members, government officials, university scholars, and members of civil society.
Focusing on the essential role that multilingualism must play in fostering sustainable development in the wake of COVID-19, the aim is to address linguistic challenges and innovative solutions with respect to Good Health and Well-Being (Sustainable Development Goal 3) and Quality Education (Sustainable Development Goal 4). Continue reading
This really does seem like an April Fool, but was reported by The Guardian newspaper on 31 March so we must assume not…along with reports on the case since February.
Moody’s, the global integrated risk assessment firm, currently has two job vacancies – one trilingual (combination of English + Modern Standard Arabic + French), and the other English-French.
I was really interested to receive news of the launch in Australia of the updated Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals.
The North-West University (NWU) in South Africa is hosting its first Language & Law Colloquium on 22 March 2022 from 08:30 to 12:35 South African time via MS Teams.
An online event entitled “Indigenous Languages and Legal Traditions” is to be held on Thursday 24 March 2022, from 13:00 – 16:30 (EST), on the occasion of the 15th annual Institute of Jurilinguistics.
Last week a Monday smile really didn’t seem possible.
The proceedings of an excellent conference held on 11 and 12 May 2017 at the University of Toulouse (which this blogger actually attended!) are now available online. The conference approached translation from the point of view of comparative law and also embraced historical perspectives. 
The OAPEN network for open access books, funded by various European research councils and funds, has made available the title “The Language(s) of Politics: Multilingual Policy-Making in the European Union” by Nils Ringe and just published by University of Michigan Press.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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