Here is a short list of events in June that you might want to check out. Check the Skilliga calendar for more.
Last updated: 31 May 2023
1 June, London & online: German Translators’ Workshop
Goethe-Institut London
18:00-20:00 BST
FREE
Drop-in workshops for literary translators working between German and English, held on the first Thursday of every month. Participants can bring passages from a translation they are working on to discuss with the group or just come to listen and offer feedback. 1-2 June, Gaillac, France: Connaître le vin et sa terminologie pour mieux traduire les textes vitivinicoles
Société française des traducteurs (SFT)
SFT members: EUR 810, non-members: EUR 1,215 9-10 June, Oxford, UK: Oxford Translation Day
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, St Anne’s College
FREE
Workshops, readings and talks, including:
- Japanese Translation Workshop with Polly Barton and Aoko Matsuda
- Translating Punctuation: A Roundtable Discussion
- ‘Translating Modernisms’: Portuguese Translation Workshop with Rahul Berry
- Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry in Translation: Iryna Starovoyt in conversation with Grace Mahoney
- ‘Translating Gender’: French Translation Workshop with Jenny Higgins
- “This is Why”: Translators on Translating
- Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Short List Readings and Prize-Giving
15 June, online: Artificial Intelligence Innovation Summits on AI, ChatGPT and Bard
Artificial Intelligence Network
13:00-16:00 CDT
FREE
15 June, online: The art of culinary translation
Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL)
11:00-12:00 BST
FREE
Techniques used to translate food terms in literary texts; practical advice for translating recipes; advice on improving language skills through cooking
22 June, online: The language services industry: market trends and future-proofing your business
Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)
11:00-12:00 BST
free for ITI members, non-members: GBP 25+VAT
From the organisers:
Learn about market trends and dynamics in the language services industry and how to future-proof your business in an industry that never stops growing.
24-25 June, Tokyo, Japan: International Japanese-English Translation Conference (IJET)
Japan Association of Translators
from ¥ 38,500
From the organisers:
Our theme this year is “On Stage or Backstage—翻訳通訳の可視性”. In many aspects of our work, we must, and should, remain invisible. Yet, if we do not improve understanding about what we do, or highlight the value we bring to business, education, politics, and all areas of society, how do we ensure that translation and interpretation do not become another faceless commodity?
How do we show the human behind without compromising the craft?
26-27 June, Lisbon, Portugal: Translation and the News: state of the art, dialogues, reflections
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
EUR 100
From the organisers:
In a political TV commentary for the Portuguese private channel SIC on May 24, 2022, journalist and translator José Milhazes mentioned a punk music concert held in Saint Petersburg where the spectators were protesting against the war in Ukraine. As he offered to translate what the demonstrators were chanting, Milhazes shocked the primetime newscaster by using a very strong swear word in Portuguese. … This episode went viral all over the Portuguese news outlets and social media. Similar cases, where literal or less literal translations become the news abound both at a local and global scale. … These cases shed light onto translation as part of journalism: what can be said and must be silenced, the (in)visibility of translation and translators in the news and specific translation strategies particular to journalism.
27 June (and 7 July), online: Subtitling for beginners
Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)
10:00-12:00 BST
ITI members: GBP 80+VAT, non-members: GBP 139+VAT
a practical introduction to help you develop subtitling as a specialism
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