LUSPIO University in Rome is pleased to announce a new Master’s in Legal Interpreting and Translation (English - Italian) starting in February 2011.
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December 13, 2010December 13, 2010
EFSLI 2011 conference: call for papers
The annual conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) is taking place in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, on 17 & 18 September 2011. The topic of the conference is “Sight Translation - Sight Interpreting - Meeting at the Cross Modes", Sign language interpreters as translators. The deadline for the submission of papers is January 30th, 2011. For more information: www.efsli2011.org.
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December 10, 2010December 10, 2010
Legal and Police Interpreting Conference
This conference seeks to explore the role of interpreters in legal and police contexts, share current research, and identify much needed further research and training needs. We invite expressions of interest for papers.
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December 3, 2010December 17, 2010
European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association (EULITA) celebrates first anniversary
On 26 November 2009 the European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association (EULITA) was founded at the Court of First Instance of Antwerp. In the meantime 14 professional associations of legal interpreters and translators in 12 EU member states (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, UK) have joined EULITA as full members. The 20 associate members comprise 2 European organizations (The European Forum of Sign-Language Interpreters EFSLI, the UK-based NGO Fair Trials International), 2 interpreters and translators organizations, 3 universities and 13 individual members, also from countries outside the European Union such as China, the USA and Colombia.
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December 3, 2010December 3, 2010
Kristiina Antinjuntti succeeds Gun-Viol Vik-Tuovinen as EULITA’s Secretary
Due to professional commitments Gun-Viol Vik-Tuovinen resigned as Secretary of EULITA. The Finnish Interpreters and Translators Association SKTL, which had nominated her for the transitional Executive Committee last November, proposed Kristiina Antinjuntti as her successor until EULITA’s general assembly in March 2011. The Executive Committee co-opted the nominee by electronic vote.
Kristiina Antinjuntti is an experienced interpreter and translator who, amongst others, has worked for the Nordic Council of Ministers, as well as the Finnish and Swedish EU Presidency.