The practice to hold Skype conferences, which was introduced when the ash cloud over Iceland made it necessary to cancel a live Committee meeting, has been continued on several occasions in the course of the year. While these 1 to 2-hour electronic meetings are no 100% substitute for actual half-day or full-day sessions, they have enabled the Executive Committee to discuss and resolve a number of issues, as well as to decide on applications for full and associate membership.
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January 23, 2011January 23, 2011
Austria dilutes application of its LIT legislation
As of the middle of 2011 the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice will “insource” interpreting services for several languages at two major courts in Vienna to its service agency.
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December 20, 2010December 20, 2010
Master’s in Legal Interpreting and Translation (English – Italian), 2011, Luspio University, Rome
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.
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November 23, 2010February 28, 2011
FIT Committee for Legal Translation and Court Interpreting organizes its 10th international forum
The tradition of the international conferences organized by the FIT Committee for Legal Translation and Court Interpreting will be continued by the tenth international which will be held in Paris from 19 to 21 May 2011. Please read the Call for Papers here.
Click here for the programme in English
Click here for the programme in French
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November 9, 2010November 11, 2010
Human Rights Convention celebrates 60th anniversary
On 4 November 1950 the Council of Europe formally adopted the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
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October 26, 2010October 26, 2010
2011 ECIS International Conference on Interpreting Quality
24-26 March 2011
Almuñécar (Granada, Spain)
In 2001, the First International Conference on Quality in Conference Interpreting took place in Almuñecar, a small village on the southern coast of Spain.
The 2011 conference on quality will have a broader focus, in order to encompass all modalities of language interpretation (conference interpreting, public-service interpreting, sign-language interpreting, etc.).
The purpose is to bring together researchers, professionals and students of interpreting for fruitful discussion.