Conference Programme

 

Thursday 26 November 2009

• Foundation meeting of EULITA
• Presentation and discussion of the mission statement, constitution, website, organisation and envisaged activities of EULITA. Statements of intent

• Official launch of EULITA at the Court of First Instance.
• Speakers from the Court, the EU Commission and the Belgian Ministry of Justice

Friday 27 November 2009

 08.00 – 09.00 | Registration

 09.00 – 10.30 | Plenary Opening Session

• Opening and Welcome – Erik Hertog, Flora Carrijn
• Opening Address: EU Commissioner for Multilingualism – Leonard Orban
  
• European Court of Human Rights case-law on the right to language assistance in criminal proceedings – James Brannan
• EU cross-border cases involving lack of satisfactory translation and interpretation facilities – Catherine Heard

10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee

11.00 – 13.00 | Concurrent sessions: session 1, session 2, session 3

Session 1: Translation and Interpreting in Police Settings

• Translating for the law enforcement – Patrizia Brugnoli
• Legal translation and interpreting by the linguistic staff of the Italian Ministry of the Interior – Cinzia Iaboni
• The changing face of language service provision for the Metropolitan Police Service: 2012 and beyond – Amanda Clement, Michael Brooker
• Beyond the bar… Behind bars: A case study on translation and interpreting in Spanish prisons – Aída Martinez-Gómez Gómez

Session 2: Country Profiles I

• Exploring the concept of quality of legal interpretation in Sweden anno 2009 – Arja Mäntykangas
• Court interpreters and sworn translators of legal language: The case of Slovenia – Viktorija Osolnik Kunc
• Interpreters in the legal process in Italy: A survey – Annalisa Sandrelli, Anna Caterina Alimenti
• Le statut et l’utilisation de traducteurs et interprètes en justice en France – Harm Diepenbroek, Georges Moukheiber
• Loi de la ville libre et hanséatique de Hambourg relative aux interprètes et traducteurs: un modèle pour l’Europe? – N. Dalügge-Momme

Session 3: Terminology

• Official translation in Europe: Systems and practices – Francisco Vigier
• Developing information mining competence in legal translation training – Anastasia Atabekova
• Automatising genre metadata for the management of multilingual communication in legal domains – Anabel Borja Albi, Esther Monzó
• Creation of a terminology data base for the Austrian Asylum Law – Irmgard Soukup-Unterweger, Tanja Wissik

13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 | Concurrent sessions: session 4, session 5

Session 4: Translation and Interpreting for the Courts

• Nuremberg in Madrid: Provision of interpreting services during the Madrid train bomb trial – Anne Martin, Juan Miguel Ortega Herráez
• Translation and interpretation for the Portuguese courts – Anne Brunke
• The right to free access to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings: Spanish panorama – Mar Jimeno-Bulnes
• Who can monitor the court interpreter’s performance? Results of a case study – Bodil Martinsen

Session 5: The International Scene

• Newly implemented judicial reform in Japan and the impact on its legal interpreting and translation – Mamoru Tsuda
• An industry-led collaborative mechanism for development of legal translators and interpreters: Case of Tianjin – Yajun GE
• Development of a court interpreters association: NAJIT – Nancy Festinger
• Court interpreting in the U.S. state courts – Carola Green

15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee

16.00 – 18.00 | Concurrent sessions: session 6, session 7 and workshop 1

 

Session 6: Translation and Interpreting in Asylum Hearings

• Legal interpreting and translation in asylum/immigration proceedings in Italy – Flavia Caciagli Conigliaro
• Linguistic minorities on trial: Reflections on interpreting multilingual identities in legal settings – Katrijn Maryns
• Une justice de qualité exige une traduction de qualité – Elhassane Benhaddou Handi

Session 7: Training Part I

• Training legal translators without legal training? – Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Catherine Way
• Training interpreters and translators for courts and public authorities: A further education course at the University of Hamburg – George Drummond
• Master "Traduction et interprétation juridique" (HS Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) / UBS Lorient): démarche dans la mise en place d’un diplôme conjoint franco-allemand – Christiane Driesen, Anne Lequy, Jean Peeters, Mariannick Guennec
• Design, implementation and evaluation of a programme on intercultural communication and public service interpreting and translation – Carmen Valero-Garcés
• La traduction juridique: langue, droit et culture dans le Master T3L de l’Université Paris 8 – Barbara Villez, Oana Gheorghe, Charlène Goasguen

18.30 – 19.30 | Reception at the historic Antwerp Town Hall

20.00 | Conference dinner ‘De Colvenier’

Saturday 28 November 2009

09.00 – 10.30 | Concurrent sessions: session 8, session 9 and workshop 2

Session 8: Interpreting in International Courts

• What is accurate interpretation? – Jelena Stojkovic-Ring
• What can domestic courts learn from international courts and tribunals about good practice court interpreting? From the Australian War Crimes Prosecutions to the International Criminal Court – Ludmila Stern
• Interpreting at the International Criminal Court: Linguistic issues and challenges – Nancy Schweda Nicholson
• L’interprétation juridique à la Cour de Justice – Daniela Amodeo Perillo, Hubertha Kuyf

Session 9: Translation in International Courts

• Translation problems specific to documents in ICTY Trials – Alice Copple-Tosic, Borislava Sasic, Ana Stefanovski
• In search of equivalence – Radmila Schneider
• Legal translation at the Court of Justice of the European Communities – Kari Liiri

10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 | Concurrent sessions: session 10, session 11, session 12

Session 10: Country Profiles II

• Legal framework and some practical aspects of the performance of interpreting and translation by the court appointed interpreters and translators in the Czech Republic – Jana Schovancova
• Some aspects of legal interpreting in Sweden – Alexander Karlsen, Jennie Fors
• Legal interpreting in Italy: Recruitment policies and quality standards – Fiorenza Maffei, Mette Rudvin, Elena Tomassini, Christopher Garwood
• La formation des interprètes judiciaires en Pologne. Etat des lieux – Małgorzata Tryuk
• The main features of the Austrian Court Interpreters Act: A model for future developments – Christine Springer

Session 11: Training Part II

• Ethical dilemmas of an interpreter trainer – Mary Phelan
• Testing interpreters: Issues regarding the development, administration and grading of court interpreter examinations – Lois M. Feuerle
• Continuing education courses for Estonian court interpreters at the University of Tartu – Mall Tamm, Andrei Muršak
• Professionals and their interpreters in multilingual societies – Gertrud Hofer

Session 12: Country Profiles III

• Two ways with one start and end: The position of court interpreters and translators in the Czech and Slovak Republics – Zuzana Guldanová, Marketa Štefková, Pavlína Knap-Dlouhá
• Legal interpreting and translation under the new Dutch Law on Sworn Interpreters and Translators – Han von den Hoff
• Déontologie de la traduction et de l’interprétation en milieu judiciaire – Monique Rouzet Lelievre
• Accessing justice through an interpreter in Ireland’s District Courts – Kate Waterhouse
• The function of a “court interpreter and/or translator” in the Federal Republic of Germany: preconditions, qualifications, compensations and legal basis – Helena Piprek

12.30 | Closing Plenary

• Legal interpreting and translation: Lessons learned – Ruth Morris