How can optimal quality be achieved in real-life interpreting – reflections on the local market of China

How to share translations, improve your skills and build your profile online - lessons from a web-based dialogue project (Meedan)

Prof Franz Pöchhacker

25.11.09 17:00 in Worsley Medical LT (7.35)

Using corpora to distinguish semantically similar lexemes within and across languages

Dr Debbie Elliott

Liz Bartrum

Debbie Elliott Translation & Language Consulting

Barclays International

Miguel Bernal

Languages Careers Evening

Event organisers:
Centre for Translation Studies & National Network for Interpreting

17:30-18:30, Business School Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre (G.02)
The Diversity of Language Services
What kind of jobs are there for freelance and in-house linguists in international organisations and EU institutions?
Speakers from UN, WTO, ILEA (the International Law Enforcement Academy), and EU language services

The event is open to all students in SMLC and languages students from regional universities.

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Careers in Interpreting and Translation

Event organisers:
National Networks for Interpreting and Translation

Session 1, 15:00-16:15, Chemistry LT B 2.17
Translation and Interpreting Employer Discussion Panel
Speakers from EU institutions, UN and British Refugee Council

Session 2, 16:30-17:30, Chemistry LT B 2.17
Alumni Discussion Panel
Alumni include freelance interpreters, translators and subtitlers with experience working for international organisations and on the private market.

The event is open to all who have a knowledge of at least one foreign language.

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Translation Ethics for Professional Translators Workshop

Workshop leaders:
The event will be led by two National Teaching Fellows: Director of the IDEA-CETL, ethicist Prof Christopher Megone, and Dr Jo Drugan, of the Centre for Translation Studies.

Have you come across ethical issues in your professional practice of translation which you’ve struggled to resolve?

This one-day workshop will bring together specialists from the national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Applied Ethics (IDEA-CETL), translation academics who research ethical issues and professional translators/interpreters. We will identify common ethical challenges in professional translation and consider practical approaches to resolving these satisfactorily.

Participants are encouraged to bring real-world problems they have encountered for discussion (these may be contributed anonymously in advance, if you prefer: email j.drugan@leeds.ac.uk). Interpreters and translators are equally welcome: small break-out groups will allow participants to work with colleagues from related fields.

The Translation Ethics Workshop is recommended for both new entrants to the profession and established practitioners and counts as one day of CPD for ITI members.

Download the PDF of our Translation Ethics for Professional Translators Workshop programme.

A delegation of high profile representatives from the UN, African Union Commission, OECD, ILO and EU language services visit Leeds as part of a CTS workshop for international organisations. The purpose of the workshop is twofold. Academics from CTS will offer machine translation evaluation or English language enhancement workshops for the delegates in order to improve their professional skills. In return, the visitors will share their work experience with CTS students in the language skills needed for work in international organisations. These include skills in translation, documentation, précis writing, verbatim reporting and conference interpreting. The aim of the event is to further develop knowledge transfer with international organisations as well as to explore the contribution international organisations can make to novel teaching resources for CTS and SMLC students. It is envisaged that such resources will augment research activities in CTS, in turn underpinning research-led teaching.

12 high profile representatives from the UN, WTO and EU language services visit Leeds as part of a CTS workshop for international organisations. The purpose of the workshop is twofold. Academics from CTS will offer machine translation evaluation or English language enhancement workshops for the delegates in order to improve their professional skills. In return, the visitors will conduct master classes for CTS students in the language skills needed for work in international organisations. These include skills in translation, documentation, précis writing, verbatim reporting and conference interpreting. The aim of the event is to further develop knowledge transfer with international organisations as well as to explore the contribution international organisations can make to novel teaching resources for CTS and SMLC students. It is envisaged that such resources will augment research activities in CTS, in turn underpinning research-led teaching.

Translation Memory for beginners
The Centre for Translation Studies hosts an Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) translation memory weekend (TRADOS). Tutors are Michael Benis (ITI), Joanna Drugan, Alina Secară and Dragoş Ciobanu (all CTS)