After much questioning, wondering, and even more planning and organisation behind the scenes, I can reveal that I have a potential venue and programme for a WordstoDeeds conference
The Third Words to Deeds Conference 2022: Legal Translation and Risk Continue reading
The translation of real estate contracts, and in particular between Spain and Ireland, is the subject of a new book co-authored by the estimable Miriam Seghiri and published by Peter Lang. It is available in ePub, PDF and hardback formats.
Publisher’s synopsis Continue reading
The Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius) will hold its next international conference from 27 to 29 June 2022 in collaboration with IAMLADP’s Universities Contact Group (UCG). The conference will provide a forum for dialogue between scholars and practitioners with a common interest in legal translation and institutional translation settings more generally. It illustrates the Centre’s commitment to fostering international cooperation and advocating translation quality in the field. Continue reading
The Ewha Research Institute for Translation Studies (ERITS), Korea Legislation Research Institute (KLRI), and the National Assembly Library of the Republic of Korea (NANET) are co-hosting the 2021 Seoul International Forum on Translation and Interpreting (IFTI) online on 15 July 2021.
“The theme of the 2021 Seoul IFTI is ’Ethics and Professionalism in Translation and Interpreting’. Ethics and professionalism are critical issues in the practice, training and research of translation and interpreting as they cut across various aspects of the translation and interpreting profession, including service quality, roles and responsibilities of translators and interpreters, working conditions, rights and advocacy, industry and market practices as well as translation and interpreting education and training. Continue reading
The Legal Task Force of the International Federation of Translators is organising a webinar on 25 june 2021 at 5 pm (CEST), entitled “Legal Translation and Interpreting – The impact of the pandemic“.
The panel will discuss impacts in the various regions of FIT.
For the link to join the webinar click here.
By popular demand, following on the success of the two WordstoDeeds Conferences, I’m delighted to announce a series of online Masterclasses for 2021.
The plan is for a series of Masterclasses every year on various aspects of legal translation. “The Benefits of Professionalization” is the theme for 2021. Five 3-hour online Masterclasses will take place – in June, July, September, October and November 2021. Continue reading
The German network of the UK association ITI has organised a three-part webinar series which examines the basics of German and English contract law, fundamental principles, practical challenges in translation, specific requirements when translating legal texts, pitfalls and approaches.
Although the first webinar is now past and was fully booked, the organisers have reopened applications, having decided that they can accommodate another 8 attendees, who will be able to watch the recording of the first session and take part in the remainder of the sessions. Continue reading
If you work with the Polish <> English combination you cannot miss this! The eminent legal translation scholar Łucja Biel is also a great presenter and trainer.
The free webinar will focus on company law: new terminology and translation-related issues in English<>Polish translations and is organised by the Polish Network of the UK’s Institute of Translation and Interpreting. Continue reading
Tomorrow, Friday 16 April 2021, 9.00 – 12.30 (EEST) there is a webinar entitled “Legal Translation in the 21st Century” which will be live-streamed from Romania. It forms part of the European Commission’s “Translating Europe” workshop series.
It will cover the following areas: Continue reading
As regular readers will know, the curator of this blog is not keen on putting herself in the limelight. However, those wiser than me insist that I should bring to your attention a couple of my recent publications. This is done in a spirit of improving things for our profession, and certainly not as advertising – if anyone has ever made money from scholarly writing please let me know… 😉 Continue reading
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