I thought we all needed some cheer this morning, so apologies in advance for the terrible pun… 😊
Legal English Course, Austral University School of Law, Argentina
A new edition of the Practical & Intensive Course in Legal English at Austral University School of Law is currently being launched and starts on 15 March 2022.
The four-month program is aimed at lawyers, advanced law students, legal translators, and other related professionals willing to hone their legal English skills. Continue reading
Online seminars – Linguistic justice
A research group at the university KU Leuven is hosting a bimonthly seminar series on issues of linguistic justice, as well as a conference on Authority, Power and Language from 18-19 October 2022, at the University of Limerick, in Ireland.
“How should linguistic diversity be regulated by democratic political institutions? Which principles of justice should be applied by political institutions in the domain of language?” Continue reading
The Machine Translation Literacy Project
In Canada, a project has been launched “to inform all kinds of users about how MT systems process information, as well as to teach them how to interact with MT tools either before or after the translation phase to get results that meet their needs”.
The infographics have been widely shared over Twitter, and are so far available in English and French. The files are open access and the project website says “feel free to adapt to other languages and let us know so we can link to them!”. Continue reading
Monday smile – Sweet-talking law firm
In late autumn, the law firm Shoosmiths decided to go the extra mile to entice its employees back to work in its London offices. According to the Law Society’s Gazette, the firm put out “jars of sweets complete with scoops and little pink and white bags” and “the jars are restocked on a regular basis and staff take their chance to fill up on cola bottles and jelly babies”. Continue reading
Job opportunity – Chinese interpreter, United Nations
The Chinese Interpretation Section, Interpretation Service, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management at the United Nations headquarters in New York is seeking two Chinese interpreters.
English and French are the working languages in the United Nations Secretariat. For these positions, a perfect command of Chinese, normally expected to be the candidate’s main language, is required. Candidates must also possess an excellent command of English or French. Continue reading
Online workshop on Translation and/in Development
The Development Studies Association Ireland is holding an online workshop on Translation and/in Development on Friday 25 February at 10:00am (Irish Time) / 17:00 (Vietnam Time).
“Practice-based development necessitates translation that involves multiple actors or agents at many levels, especially in the local contexts of the Global South.” Continue reading
17th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics
The Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics that historically was held in Poznań, Poland is being held entirely online this year from 13-14 June 2022 (#LegTICL22).
This event is being co-organised by the University of Verona and Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. The focus of the conference will be on digital humanities (e.g., statistics, data mining, data visualisation, software programmes, digital databases, corpora, etc.) and legal language.
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Monday smile – With all due respect
The English Law Society’s Gazette recently published news of some new research on legal language. The article notes that “‘With respect’ can be one of the rudest phrases in the English language.
The Gazette adds: “Now it’s official, thanks to research by linguistic academics. Their source is the language of the appellate courts, in particular transcripts of the Supreme Court hearings in R v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.”
9th Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies
Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA, in collaboration with Guangxi University and Tsinghua University is hosting the 9th Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies (APFTIS), to take place online on 25 and 26 March 2022.
The programme is to be announced in February 2022.
Full details can be found on the forum website, and one track is likely to be translating & interpreting services in medical, legal, business, diplomatic, media and non-traditional contexts, i.e. humanitarian crisis, public safety and law enforcement. Continue reading
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