Translator training workshop, Sarajevo, 17 November 2015

Coming up, for readers within reach of Sarajevo, the next event from the IATIS (International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies) Training Committee, with Professor Dorothy Kenny of Dublin City University:

Free webconference: Corpora and Tools in Translator Training, 14 April 2015

This just came round via the IATIS Training Committee and looks very useful. The event will run both onsite and online. There is no charge for participation.

IATIS Training Event: 

Corpora and Tools in Translator Training

IATIS Online/Onsite Training Event, 14 April 2015

Cologne University of Applied Sciences, 

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

The use of corpora has now found its way into both the theoretical/descriptive and applied branches of translation studies. This online event is aimed at stimulating debate on current and future trends in corpus-based translator training and critically appraising current practices.

The training event will focus on strategies, usability and technology in the use of corpora and discuss the following aspects:

1) Corpus types which are particularly relevant to translator training.

2) Corpus use for learning to translate vs. learning corpus use for translating.

3) Corpus compilation and selection criteria.

4) Contextualisation of corpus texts and of the theoretical/methodological set-up underlying corpus- based research.

5) Corpus types, e.g. Do-it-yourself corpora, high-quality translation corpora, such as the Cologne Specialized Translation Corpus (CSTC).

6) The web as a source of corpus texts; the web as a macro-corpus.

7) Situating the use of corpora in translation competence models, e.g. PACTE or EMT.

8) Corpus tools, such as corpus analysis software and Web concordancers.

The event leaders (Prof Dr Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Dr Ralph Krüger, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Prof Dr Silvia Hansen-Schirra, University of Mainz) will present position papers (ca. 25 min each) covering a number of the issues suggested above and then invite discussion from participants.

More details including schedule, abstracts and login instructions at:

http://www.fh-koeln.de/hochschule/itmk--konferenzen-und-tagungen--iatis-training-event_17408.php

Literary translation summer schools, UK

There are two translation summer schools (to my knowledge) running in the UK this summer. Both of them have had excellent reports from my students in previous years.

The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School in Norwich will offer workshops with Dutch, German, Italian, Korean and Norwegian this year, as well as English creative writing workshops, and prose and poetry translation workshops open to anyone translating into English. A feature of the Summer School is the opportunity to work with the author of the source text as well as with an experienced translator as workshop leader.

The Translate in the City summer school in London will run with the list of languages and tutors as below.

CANCELLED: Financial translation workshop with Javier Gil, Tuesday 10 March 2015

STOP PRESS **With great regret we announce that Javier's workshop described below has had to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to reschedule in future**

Following Tuesday's very enjoyable and enlightening seminar by Nick Rosenthal, we are looking forward to welcoming Javier Gil to Bristol to talk about the world of financial translation. The event is free and all are welcome. 

Venue: Arts Complex Lecture Theatre 2 (entrance via 3-5 Woodland Road for external visitors)

Time: 3-5pm, Tuesday 10 March 2015

Overview

Financial translation has proved to be one of the most resilient translation markets during the recent economic crisis. According to Deloitte, financial information worldwide has not stopped growing for the past 15 years and, since 2008, financial information has increased by 34%. This session will help students learn more about the fundamental aspects of financial translation such as its main features and the most common problems faced by financial translators. We will look at a brief classification of the main types of financial texts, using a number of real-life examples, and we will also discuss other professional aspects, such as job opportunities, rates, potential employers, etc. Finally, a step-by-step process to further specialise in financial translation will be explained, including a number of interesting websites and online resources for those interested in further exploring this field.

Javier Gil is a financial translator and a partner at eQuality Financial Translation Services, which is a financial translation boutique that provides translation services for the financial industry. He works for a number of international bodies, all of them within the economic and financial field. He has over 15 years of experience, including serving as an external translator for the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt and as the head of the Spanish Translation Service at KPMG Spain. His academic background includes a translation degree from the Universidad Europea de Madrid and a master’s degree in management and finance from Bath University (UK). Having worked as a university lecturer, he has also delivered over 30 financial translation seminars and workshops at universities and organisations in Spain and the UK, and he was awarded the American Translators Association award for the best financial translation presentation in 2012 in San Diego (California). 

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

This is an introductory workshop and no previous financial background is required. It will be delivered in English and is open to speakers of any language.

Session 1: Financial Translation Overview

 

- Introduction - What is financial translation?

- Features of financial language

- Generic problems in financial translation

- The top 10 fields in financial translation with key features and sample texts (part 1)

Session 2:  Specialising in Financial Translation & Job Opportunities 

 

- The top 10 fields in financial translation with key features and sample texts (part 2)

- Why specialize in financial translation?

- How to specialize in financial translation?

- Key players in the financial translation industry / potential employers in Europe

- Outlook for the industry (rates, professional bodies, etc.)

- Going freelance or in-house? Pros and cons within the financial industry

- Conclusions

- Questions & Answers

For more events on translating taking place in the School of Modern Languages this spring, click here.

Project management and quality training event, Portsmouth

Hi all,
The next in our series of professional training workshops takes place on 27 January. Raisa McNab of STP Nordic will be running the workshop. The workshop is addressed primarily to professional translators, both newly-qualified translators finding their feet, and more established professional translators who would like to enhance their awareness of and skills in project management and quality. See below for further details and a registration link.

Enhancing your project management and quality assurance skills

Raisa McNab

Friday, 27 January 2012

Park Building, University of Portsmouth

PROGRAMME: 

10 a.m-12 noon

• Introduction
• Project management for freelance translators: learning from a translation company context
• Managing projects efficiently
• Project management aids and tools
• Opportunities in the translation industry

12 noon-1.30 Lunch and networking

13.30-4.00 

• What is "good quality"? Quality assurance metrics, standards and considerations
• Quality assurance tools
• Hands-on exercise using a QA tool: Apsic Xbench. (Participants may use the on-site machines or bring their own laptops.)

Raisa McNab is the Production & Quality Manager at STP Nordic, a translation company specialising in the Nordic languages. She holds an MA in Translation from her native Finland and brings to the workshop eight years of experience in project management and quality assurance along with her experiences of the challenges translators face in their daily working lives.

 

Fee: £50 (£45 for ITI and CIoL members and postgraduate students)

To register, please click here. Enquiries should be addressed to translation at port.ac.uk.

European Masters in Translation

 To all our readers, I am delighted to announce that Portsmouth has just become a member of the European Masters in Translation network. This is an initiative set up by the Directorate-General for Translation at the European Commission to improve translator training across Europe by setting baselines for curricula, infrastructure and skills/competences acquired, and by promoting exchange and dialogue between translation programmes. The network has fifty-four members across twenty countries, including eleven programmes in the UK. There's a factsheet for students (yet to be updated) on the DGT's website.

Portsmouth is also a member of the sister network, OPTIMALE (OPtimising Translator training In a MultilinguAl Europe), established in 2010 through a grant from the Erasmus Lifelong Learning fund, which brings together seventy institutions across Europe to promote high-quality training for translator trainers. There's a survey on the Optimale website aimed at translation companies and employers, about the skills they want from translators - click here to take the survey, and please also feel free to forward the link to anyone you think might be interested.

For more information on the Portsmouth MA programme, Optimale, the EMT or our translation events and seminars more generally, please click here or contact Begoña Rodríguez de Céspedes at  translation at port.ac.uk.