HERMES – Journal of Language and Communication in Business is a free online peer-reviewed international journal published twice a year by the Department of Business Communication at Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark.
Monday smile – Red riding hood, compliance-style
I happened upon this lovely demonstration of a technical report gone wrong… Hope you like it, and enjoy your week!
World Bank Report – Women, business and the law
The World Bank has recently published the 4th edition of its series Women, Business and the Law, which provides data on legal and regulatory barriers to women’s entrepreneurship and employment in 173 economies, covering seven areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, going to court, and protecting women from violence.
Monday smile – Bottled summer smells for commuters
In this hemisphere, we are moving slowly but surely into winter, so I thought a little reminder of sunnier days might be nice to start the week.
For those of you in other parts of the globe, I’m sure you’ll see the fun of it too!
Online course – Dutch legal translation
eCPD Webinars is organizing a “Dutch-English and English-Dutch legal translation course” on 13th October 2015 and 20 October 2015, in two sessions of 90 minutes each.
Formation – Actes notariés FR><EN
The Syndicat national des traducteurs professionnels is organizing a one-day training course to take place on 13 November 2015 in Aix-en-Provence, France. Registration by 17 October 2015 at the latest.
Monday smile – Business jargon, from castles to unicorns
As regular readers will know, I have quite a fascination with the wackier realms of business jargon. Hope you enjoy these…
Conference – Convergence, Contact, Interaction, Trieste, Italy
Trieste, Risiera San Sabba by Giacomo Carena
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The Department of Law, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies of the University of Trieste has announced an International Conference on Translation and Interpreting: Convergence, Contact, Interaction, to be held at the University of Trieste on 26-28 May 2016.
“The idea of the Trieste Conference is to create a common space for reflection based on the topic, the area, the subject or the discipline in which Translation and Interpreting are both enacted as a service to society.”
Stop press: Forum – Justice pénale internationale, Limoges, France
I have just been informed about a very interesting conference to be held this Thursday and Friday, 1 & 2 October 2015, in Limoges, France – Forum de l’IiRCO sur la justice pénale internationale et transitionnelle en espace francophone: La question de la langue du procès.
Monday smile – La belle ministre vert
Apparently,¹ thanks to an Arabic>French translation of a recent press release (Google Translate strikes again), the Tunisian Minister of Culture became a laughing stock when announcing a new legal framework for artists and designers.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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