- develop reflective (deep) learning
- serve as a tool for lifelong learning
- contribute towards the achievement of holistic assessment
- encourage the development and recognition of individual competencies and learning outcomes
- make sense of the multitude of different initiatives aimed at promoting mobility and transparency of qualifications
- serve as a knowledge management tool for organisations and territories
- contribute towards social inclusion

This conference has become the most important in the ePortfolio community calendar. 2005 will celebrate the progess made in the international uptake of the ePortfolio and in achieving the goal of an ePortfolio for all.
Info: www.europortfolio.org & www.eife-l.org/portfolio/ep2005

The European Information Develoment Conference (EIDC) will be organised this year for third time. The concept will remain the same as in the first two successful
years: There will be presentations and workshops on Wednesday and Thursday in the following expert forums:

• OnlineHelp forum,
• Localisation forum,
• XML forum, • Usability forum,
• ContentManagement forum
• Terminology and language technology forum (TAMA 2005, in cooperation with Termnet)

Email: u.wirtz@tekom.de
Info: http://www.tekom.de/artikel/artikel_1259.html

ATA Jahrestagung, Seattle (Washington)

(Preconference Interpreting Sessions)
Veranstaltungen während des Kongresses für Dolmetscher (die Kongressgebühr deckt erfahrungsgemäß ca. 190 - 200 verschiedene Veranstaltungen in vielen Sprachen ab)

There is an early bird rate for registration before 10 September
Info: http://www.atanet.org/conf2005

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Maneerat Sawasdiwat Na Ayutthaya from Bangkok is organizing a pretty interesting conference with a strong translation and translation studies component. Their webiste, with a call for papers, is now up at http://www.poweroflanguage.org.

For more information, contact:
Prof. Maneerat Sawasdiwat Na Ayutthaya, Chair, Organizing Committee Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau 3005-3009 Level 30, River Wing East Empire Tower
195 South Sathorn Road
Yannawa, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120
Thailand
Tel: 662 694-6000, Fax: 662 659-5995
Info: http://www.poweroflanguage.org
Emails: info@poweroflanguage.org; Maneerat@rit.ac.th

This is a practical training course intended to help those who need to find information about EU institutions and policies and European affairs in the course of their work. Pleasant atmosphere, expert trainers’ advice and guidance and plenty of hands-on time combined with practical exercises: these are the right ingredients of our successful training!

Furthermore, we can inform you already of the following seminars planned for 2006 in the field of European Information Management:
8-9 June 2006: Who's Afraid of European Information?
5-6 October 2006: Europe on the Internet
30 Nov. -1 Dec.: Keep Ahead with European Information in the Enlarged Europe

This intensive 2-days training course is designed to help those who need to quickly find targeted internet sources of EU-related information. It will provide participants with a comprehensive and structured guide to a wide range of free and commercial internet resources dealing with European issues, European, institutions, comitology and EU agencies.
During the course, you will have the opportunity to:
• have practical experience in using the key EU and non-EU websites and databases;
• learn what they cover and how to access them;
• compare the different existing sources of information.
A special session of the training course will be dedicated to the EU public procurement, grants and funding opportunities and statistics information.

Joyce J.W.M. Groneschild, Programme Organiser / Organisatrice des programmes
European Institute of Public Administration
PO Box 1229, NL - 6201 BE Maastricht
Tel: +31 43 3296 357
Fax: +31 43 3296 296
Info: http://www.eipa.nl
Email: j.groneschild@eipa-nl.com

- Experiences in digitalisation.
- Use of free or affordable software.
- Computer-assisted translation.
- Experiences in e-learning.
- Using e-documents.
- Virtual learning environments.
- Electronic portfolios.
- Terminology storage and management.
- Data gathering.
- Using computer resources for translator training in the context of the European Framework for Higher Education.

Papers may be submitted in two forms: 1) 20-minute presentations followed by time for questions from the audience; 2) electronic submissions (which may include sound and video) to be viewed at the conference (time for questions may be allowed if the author is present). All papers must be submitted in Catalan, Spanish or English. Simultaneous interpeting will be provided at the conference. The organisers will select papers for e-publication in the final proceedings of the conference.

Submissions:
Abstracts not exceeding 500 words must be sent before 30 November 2005. Main points and key words should be annexed.Authors will be notified of acceptance by 22 December 2005.

The full text of presentations and registration fees must be sent by
15 March 2006. Registration fee: €100.

Send abstracts, papers and requests for further information to:
jornades_trad@uvic.es. All correspondence with the organisers should be electronic.

X Jornades de Traducció i Interpretació a Vic
Dijous 30 i divendres 31 de març de 2006
Facultat de Ciències Humanes, Traducció i Documentació
University of Vic
C. de la Laura 13
08500 Vic (Barcelona), Spain
Tel. +(34) 93 881 60 24
Fax +(34) 93 881 43 07
Info: http://www.uvic.es/fchtd/especial/jornades_2006/en/inici.html

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BITcon - Managing the Evolution of Internationalization
Call for Papers Notice
The Business of Internationalization and Technology Conference© Asia
[BITcon© Asia]
The Future of Internationalization - Intelligent Design and Evolution
April 4-6, 2006, Hong Kong, China

BITcon© is the first conference that brings together experts on the ever-changing dynamics of the business of internationalization and localization with the thought leaders of rapidly evolving technologies. Managers and Web, engineering, and localization specialists will learn how to incorporate best practices into business operations and plan for successful economical modernization of their applications, processes and tools. Each BITcon© conference focuses on different topics and regions.
This conference will focus on internationalization business, technology, and education for the explosive East, South, and Southeast Asian markets. It will deal with key issues with developing products for Asian markets, plus the burgeoning field of taking advanced products developed in Asia and targeting them at large markets in North America and Europe.
We invite you to submit speaking proposals for consideration to the BITcon© Asia program. We welcome visionary views, contrarian thoughts, successful and unsuccessful experiences, design recommendations, and updates on standards, practices, management principles, and technology.
Help shape the future of internationalization and localization in Asia by submitting proposals for papers, tutorials, workshops, case studies, and keynote lectures for consideration to the Business of Internationalization and Technology Conference ©Asia (BITcon©Asia). BITcon©Asia will bring together well-known experts and attendees from around the world to discuss key issues and solutions of business internationalization and localization in Asia. Join us for this premier event of its kind.

Meeting highlights:
• Pre-conference tutorials and summit
• Plenary sessions by experts
• I18n and Unicode Practitioner© Track
• Reverse internationalization - n81i©
• Globalization business practices©
Some suggested topics for submission:
• New standards, practices, management principles, and technology in internationalization and localization.
• Local standards for character encoding GB18030, HKSCS, how to support them, character conversion issues, and encoding detection.
• Using Unicode or similar tools to meet the needs of Asian languages.
• Design considerations of Asian script support for non-Arabic speakers.
• Design issues surrounding multilingual web sites.
• Offering and implementing web services globally.
• Best solutions for solving language technologies, e.g., parsing Asian languages.
• Translation tools that work well with Asian languages, such as XLIFF.
• Effective development environments for global services.
• Regional differences in business practices by market.
• Products developed for Japanese, Chinese or Korean markets versus the reverse-localization of western products for Asia.
More suggested topics.
Submission deadline:
November 4, 2005
Submit your proposals here.
BITcon© Asia c/o Global Meeting Services, Inc.
10914 Glenda Ct.
San Diego, CA 92126 USA
Tel: 1-858-689-4844 | Fax: 1-858-689-4944 |
If your paper is accepted, your details will be included on the Web pages and the paper itself will appear on a Conference CD.
We look forward to your participation in BITcon©Asia
Sincerely,
Donald A. DePalma,
Common Sense Advisory, Inc.
Conference Chair
Email:info@global-conference.com

Italian Refresher Courses for Interpreters, Bassano Romano, Italien.
Email: foladore@lamastaba.com
Info: http://www.lamastaba.com

SPD presenters include:
• Aaron Ruby
Birth, Death and Taxes: Vital Translations of Certificates, Transcripts, Diplomas, and Forms
• Alberto Gómez Font
El español global en los medios de comunicación hispanos de los EE. UU. y en los grandes medios trasnacionales
• Alicia Agnese
A desmitificar cognados se ha dicho
• Xosé Castro
• Georgeanne Weller
El dulce encanto de la traducción/ interpretación a la vista • Jorge de Buen
Diferencias ortotipográficas entre el inglés y el español • José G. Moreno de Alba
Las academias de la lengua, hoy
• Marian S. Greenfield, ATA President
Translating the Capital Markets Spanish to English • Michael Blumenthal
Medical Writing: Abbreviations, Symbols, and Units of Measure • Mercedes Guhl
Las fronteras internas del español en la traducción literaria para editoriales
• Paul Coltrin
Mud-Wrestling with the Enemy: How to Handle Source Texts from Hell
• Peter P. Lindquist
Objective Self-Analysis: Using the MRC Approach to Maintain and Improve Translation and Interpreting Skills • Ricardo Espinoza La palabra como herramienta básica de una eficiente comunicación

PLD presenters include:
• Paulo Lopes
Math, Statistics and Other Nerdy Stuff for People Who Hate Them
Life Before and Inside The Booth
• Enéas Theodoro Jr
The Unsteady Foothold of Legal Translation on a Wobbly Corporate
Ladder
• Melany Laterman
The Role of the Translator in Website and Software Localization • Arlene Kelly
Brazilian Police Reports: Practice Sight Translation from Portuguese to English
• Ana Lucila Bastos
"There's Gotta Be Chemistry"
• Ruth Weinfeld (formerly Ruth Ferzt)
Medical Interpreting
• Aida Ferreira
Website Development for Freelancers
• Tereza Braga
"Gimme the Money: Estilo de vida ou Meio de Vida?"

WORKSHOPS
• Getting Up and Running with Workbench and MultiTerm iX • The Tougher Side of Trados • Déjà Vu for Beginners • ATA English>Spanish Certification Exam Workshop • ATA Portuguese Certification Exam Information Session


ATA CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION

An ATA certification exam sitting is scheduled for Saturday, April 29. This will be a standard exam; it is not specialty specific.
Separate registration is required for the exam. Registration deadline is Friday, April 14, 2006.

To review the Eligibility Requirements and Exam Registration Form, visit http://www.atanet.org/certification on the ATA website.


ATA CONTINUING EDUCATION POINTS

ATA-certified members will earn up to 10 Continuing Education
Points for attending this conference.

You can review the Guide to ATA Continuing Education Points
at http://www.atanet.org/acc/Guide_Education_Points.pdf


MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION TODAY AND SAVE

With beautiful views of the Manhattan skyline – yes, you read that
right – Las Vegas' tallest hotel and casino, New York, New York, is an exceptional site for our conference. Starting with a Brooklyn Bridge walkway entrance, the hotel recreates New York City's famous landmarks, from the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building to a Little Italy-style food court with sidewalk dining and brownstone buildings. You'll also find a Central Park-themed casino, Park Avenue shopping, and New York nightclub entertainment – all without Ever leaving Las Vegas!

Visit http://www.nynyhotelcasino.com/pages/index_noflash.asp
For additional hotel information.

A small block of rooms has been reserved for SPD-PLD conference attendees at $165 + tax per night. However, to take advantage of this special rate, reservations must be made on or before April 3, 2006.
Contact New York, New York Hotel at (800) 852-5683 for reservations, and be sure to mention that you are attending ATA's "Spanish Language Division-Portuguese Language Division Conference.

READY TO REGISTER?

Early bird registration ends March 15! To register, download the registration form from the SPD or PLD website. .

• Spanish Language Division Website
Info: http://www.ata-spd.org
• Portuguese Language Division Website
Info: http://www.ata-divisions.org/PLD/index.htm

Watch both of these websites for conference details and updates!

Questions? Contact Maggie Rowe at ATA Headquarters by
phone (703) 683-6100 or email maggie@atanet.org

CHECK OUT THESE UPCOMING ATA EVENTS

"The Changing Tides of Translation"
ATA-TCD 7th Annual Conference
April 20-23, 2006
Jersey City, New Jersey
Info: http://www.ata-divisions.org/TCD

"Entertainment Industry Seminar"
An ATA Professional Development Event
April 1, 2006
Miami, Florida
Info: http://www.atanet.org/pd/entertainment

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE : NEW HORIZONS IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LETTERS
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION, ANKARA, TURKEY

Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) is hosting the 4th International Conference titled "New Horizons in Translation Studies" on 11-12 May 2006. This Conference addresses academics, practitioners, instructors, public service authorities and people who work and/or study in the multidisciplinary fields of translation and interpretation.

The main topics of the Conference are the following:

• translation theory
• history of translation
• translation criticism
• literary translation
• theory and practice of interpreting
• training
• market

Organization Committee

Prof. Dr. Berrin AKSOY
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aymil DOÐAN
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asalet ERTEN
Dr. Elif ERSÖZLÜ
Dr. Yeþim DÝNÇKAN
Dr. Sezai ARUSOÐLU
Dr. Zeynep ALP

Languages: The languages of the Conference are Turkish, English and French

For correspondance:

Dr. Elif ErsozluHacettepe University
Faculty of Letters
Department of Translation and Interpretation Beytepe 06532 Ankara- TURKEY
Tel: 00 90 312 297 83 75
Fax: 00 90 312 299 20 85
Mobile: 0533 263 85 57

For registration, please fill in the following form and either send by e-mail or by post (format: *.doc)

Email: eersozlu@hacettepe.edu.tr and e_ersozlu@yahoo.com
Info: http://www.mutercim-tercumanlik.hacettepe.edu.tr/

*** NEW – NEU – NEW – NEU
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ Announces a new graduate level course: COMPUTER ASSISTED TRANSLATION to be offered through the World Languages Institute in Summer Session 2006, Monday evenings, 6:15-9:45 P.M. and Saturday, 9:45 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.,
22 May – 12 June; Introduction to CAT (SDLX and Trados) 16:617:531
(1.5 cr.) (no class 29 May). Not language specific.

17 June – 3 July
Intensive Practice in CAT 16:617:532 (1.5 cr.) Chinese, German, Spanish, etc.
Specific language options dependent upon student interest and available instructors.

These graduate courses may be open to outstanding seniors (Class of 2007), with special permission.

For special permission contact:
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese (732) 932-9323

For more information go to:
http://languageinstitute.rutgers.edu
http://span-port.rutgers.edu
http://summersession.rutgers.edu

S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S

Third International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training [www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/index.html]

A Satellite Event of LREC 2006 (5th Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference) [www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/]

Venue: Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, Genoa, Italy.

After the successful LR4Trans-I (28 May 2002, Las Palmas) and LR4TRans-II (28 August 2004, Geneva) Workshops, we would now like to draw your attention to this Third Edition. Please refer to the workshop-related Internet pages (see below) to know more about the scope, motivation, history, organising and scientific committees and latest developments of this initiative.

Here the main points for now:
1) Target audience: we encourage participation from everyone interested in translation and localisation technologies, from practicing translators to translator trainers, going through researchers in various interdisciplinary fields, ranging from computational linguistics, translation to corpus linguistics, terminology and multilingual technical documentation. We would be happy to have a more significant representation of industry and government agencies handling electronic language resources (LRs) to satisfy their multilingual needs.
2) Important dates (subject to slight changes):
- Deadline for workshop paper submission: 3rd February 2006
- Notification of Acceptance: 15th March 2006
- Paper Final Version for Workshop Proceedings: 3rd April 2006.
- Workshop Date: 28th May 2006.
3) Please download the full CfP text from www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/CfP.pdf
4) Note to potential authors: Please remember that only electronic submissions uploaded in the remote EasyChair system will be accepted.

Please follow the submission guidelines and deadline as stated in the CfP.

- Workshop home:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/index.html
- Workshop history (info about two previous editions and initiative development): http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/history.html
- Workshop current edition (motivation, topic coverage, people, submissions): http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/edition.html
- Workshop news:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/news.html
- Workshop downloads (e.g. CfP):
http:// www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/downloads.html

We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you in Genoa on 28th May 2006.

Elia Yuste (Workshop Chair)

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*** NEW – NEU – NEW – NEU
Summer School Rechtssprache. Recklinghausen. BDÜ.
Info: http://www.bdue-nrw.de

o Topic Overviews
o LISA Professional Skills Workshops
o Exhibitor Information
o New to the industry? Click here to learn about special offers for
companies getting started in the Globalization Industry

Click here for details on special offers to attend the Summit

Notices:
You are welcome to re-send this message to any number of colleagues.
We apologize if you received duplicates of this announcement.

Why should I attend?
To network with experts, learn and discuss the best strategies, standards and techniques for implementing global information management technologies and
processes.

Summit Participants
LISA attendees are decision makers and key suppliers responsible for implementing global information management and automated translation tools, workflow and CMS
systems for globalization operations within all business, government and institutional sectors.

Exhibitor info
A two-and-a-half day exhibition featuring the industry's leading automated translation tools, terminology management systems developers, content
management and workflow systems, web services, along with internationalization,
translation and localization suppliers.
Info: http://www.lisa.org/interact/unsube.html

Maastricht University to host the second international conference on Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education.
Info: http://www.unimaas.nl/iclhe/

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TSTT'06
Third International Conference on Terminology, Standardization and Technology Transfer
Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Theme for TSTT’2006 is: Terminology in the information society and for the emerging knowledge society.

TSTT Conference is the most important event of China in the field of terminology standardization. The goal is to promote the development of terminology and its application in business, scientific research and education, and to intensify the cooperation among related organizations within and between the world regions.

The first TSTT conference was held on 1991, which marked the beginning of full range cooperation between China and outside world in the field of terminology standardization. Then in 1997 the second TSTT conference demonstrated the prosperous development of terminology in China with the rapid growth of IT industry.

Now China is becoming more and more involved in the world global economy. The terminology work has reached its higher stage. Chinese experts begin to undertake real tasks to develop ISO standards in terminology. To meet challenge of the new development of technology and the wide demand of knowledge management, and to take the advantages of hosting ISO/TC37 annual meeting, the third TSTT conference, i.e. TSTT’2006, will be organized in August 2006. This TSTT conference is aimed to further promote the application of terminology in various business activities and to strengthen the world wide cooperation related to terminology.

The abstracts of proposed papers should be about 400 words in length and shall contain the title of the paper, name(s)/affiliation(s)/complete addresses/e-mail address of the author(s).

The submission of abstracts by e-mail shall not be later than 31st January, 2006.

The notice of acceptance for proposed papers shall be sent to contributors by e-mail before 13th April, 2006.

The submission of full papers shall be by e-mail and no later than 10th May, 2006. The length of papers is expected to be 5 to 10 pages. The publishable papers shall be in English and with layout either in Word or PDF format. Papers composed of only ppt slides will not be included in the published proceedings.

The qualified papers of the conference will be published in the form of proceedings provided they have been submitted before the 10th May, 2006. The proceedings are expected to be published before the conference. Participants will receive a copy after their registration at the conference.
Info: www.tstt2006.org
Email: tstt2006@cnis.gov.cn

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International Translation Conference and Expo in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
SALON PRESIDENTES HOTEL XALAPA
Professional translators/interpreters, linguists, terminologists, translation company owners and managers, translation/interpreting researchers and teachers, translation training program managers, translation students, etc., from all over Mexico and many parts of the world will be getting together in Xalapa for this important conference (the most important one in Mexico)

Soon we'll have the conference web page ready for you to check the program and the event's special features. This year, a "NOCHE MEXICANA" with folk ballet and Mariachi music, and the whole enchilada wil be included in the social activities of the program. Also a new feature, Translation Industry EXPO. Translation software, books, dictionaries, interpreting equipment, subtitling equipment and software etc., will be exhibited. Also Mexican arts and crafts will be part of the Expo. The translation tianguis will be another new feature this year. If you have a translation agency and are

Looking to expanding your translators database. Here's a good opportunity. A stand with info on the most important and successfull training programs all over the world will be there for students and young translators who wish to continue their training.

Call for papers: If you want to participate with a presentation please send a 300-word abstract of your presentation to gls@veracruz-llave.com. If your work is selected for participation you'll be receiving a confirmation within one week.
Exhibitors: If you are interested to participate as an exhibitor please send us an e-mail.
The registration fees will be: 1000.00 pesos for Mexican attendees; $100.00 USD for foreign attendees.

This fee includes Welcome Noche Mexicana on September 13, Parrillada
(barbecue) at the Club Hipico on September 14, All the academic activities, and Admission to the Expo space. Reserve your hotel room through us and get an excellent discount. Single room: 780.00 MX; Double room: 850.00 MX (Includes Breakfast, Tips, and Taxes).
Email: gls@veracruz-llave.com

*** NEW – NEU – NEW – NEU ***
BDÜ-Veranstaltung:
Am 30.09.06 findet das Seminar "Across für Einsteiger: Grundlagenkurs" in Göttingen statt.
Dieses Seminar ist auf Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzer ausgerichtet, die bisher keine Erfahrung mit dem Translation-Memory-System across haben und sich mit den Grundlagen der Einzelplatzversion dieses Tools vertraut machen möchten. Diese "Personal Edition" ist gegenwärtig für BDÜ Mitglieder kostenlos erhältlich.
Sie haben die Möglichkeit sich noch bis zum 08.09.06 in der Geschäftsstelle anzumelden.
Email: bn@bdue.de

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This intensive 2-days training course is designed to help those who need to quickly find targeted internet sources of EU-related information. It will provide participants with a comprehensive and structured guide to a wide range of free and commercial internet resources dealing with European issues, European, institutions, comitology and EU agencies.
During the course, you will have the opportunity to:
• have practical experience in using the key EU and non-EU websites and databases;
• learn what they cover and how to access them;
• compare the different existing sources of information.
A special session of the training course will be dedicated to the EU public procurement, grants and funding opportunities and statistics information.

Joyce J.W.M. Groneschild, Programme Organiser / Organisatrice des programmes
European Institute of Public Administration
PO Box 1229, NL - 6201 BE Maastricht
Tel: +31 43 3296 357
Fax: +31 43 3296 296
Email: j.groneschild@eipa-nl.com
Further information on all our seminars will become available soon on our website:
Info: http://www.EIPA.nl

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The 2006 conference aims at contributing to the efforts of the European Association for Terminology and other national and international organisations to create platforms for the exchange of information on advances in terminology science and applications.

The central theme of the conference is the impact of terminology on everyday life, and terminology needs & practices. The conference will bring together theory and practice – and thus terminology companies and government departments on the one hand and universities having terminology in their curriculum on the other - and focus especially on the following

Topics
1. the importance of / best practices in terminology management, knowledge management & multilingual document production for such important society areas as business & services, industry, government, administration, health & human care, security, etc.
2. best practices for / projects of national terminology associations representing smaller languages and / or new EU member states whose objective it is to promote their own language as the language for specialised terminology; issues relating to language policy in this area
3. best practices in terminology teaching and training
4. uniformity and standardisation across languages of the terminology of translation and interpreting

Participation is open to terminologists, terminographers, computer specialists, translators/ translation companies, interpreters, teachers of terminology/terminography/translation/ interpreting, linguists, lexicographers, publishers, etc.

Contributions will be published in the form of proceedings.

Pre-conference workshops:
A pre-conference workshop on the terminology of translation will be organised on Wednesday the 15th of November.

Programme Committee (more names to be included):
- Donald Barabé (Canadian Government Translation Bureau)
- Gerhard Budin (Universität Wien)
- Georgeta Ciobanu (Univ. Politehnica Timisoara, Romania)
- Rute Costa (President of EAFT - European Association for Terminology)
- Martin Forstner (CIUTI –Conférence Internationale Permanente d'instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes)
- Hannelore Lee-Jahnke (Training Committee of FIT – Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs)
- Klaus-Dirk Schmitz (RadT – Rat für Deutschsprachige Terminologie & DEUTERM - Deutsches Informations- und Dokumentationszentrum für Terminologie, DTT e.V. – German Terminology Society) (Chairman of the Programme Committee) klaus.schmitz@fh-koeln.de
- Frieda Steurs (Lessius Hogeschool Antwerp, Chair of Local Organising Committee) Frieda.Steurs@lessius-ho.be
- Marcel Thelen (NL-TERM and Department of Translation and Interpreting, Maastricht School of International Communication, Hogeschool Zuyd/University of Applied Sciences)
- Hennie van der Vliet (NL-TERM and Free University of Amsterdam)

Local Organising Committee:
- Frieda Steurs (Chair) Frieda.Steurs@lessius-ho.be
- Karen Foelen
- Luc van Doorslaer
- Winibert Segers
- Henri Bloemen
- Cornelia Wermuth
- Hendrik Kockaert
- Christine Gysen

Registration:
Registration for the conference is on Thursday 16 November 2006, just prior to the opening ceremony. Participants taking part in the pre-conference workshops should register on Wednesday 15 November 2006.

Provisional programme:
The official opening ceremony of the conference is on Thursday 16 November 2006.
Each lecture will last 30 minutes, followed by about 10 minutes of discussion.
The programme and format of the various presentations are dependent on the number of participants attending and may be altered accordingly.
More information will follow in the second circular.

Working languages:
The working languages of the conference will be Dutch, English, French, and German. Papers may be given, and abstracts submitted, in any of these languages. There will be interpreting facilities. The pre-conference workshop is in English.

Abstracts:
Participants wishing to submit a paper falling within one of the categories covered by the conference (see the topics listed above) are requested to send an abstract by 31 March 2006 to the Chair of the Programme Committee (Klaus-Dirk Schmitz) with a copy to the Chair of the Local Organising Committee (Frieda Steurs).Abstracts shall not exceed 300-400 words, shall be double-spaced and camera-ready, shall contain the title of the paper, name(s)/affiliation(s)/complete addresses of the author(s) and shall indicate the topic in the top right-hand corner. Authors should also submit an electronic copy of their abstract on a 3 1/2 inch diskette (MSWindows 97 or higher).
The Programme Committee will reply in May 2006.

Deadline for abstracts:
31 March 2006

Proceedings:
The papers of the conference will be published in the form of proceedings provided they have been submitted before the 18th of December 2006. These proceedings will be published after the conference. Authors will receive a style guide for the preparation of a camera-ready version. More details will follow in the third circular.

Conference venue:
The conference will be held at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of Lessius Hogeschool in Antwerp:
Departement Vertaler-Tolk
Sint-Andriesstraat 2
2000 Antwerpen, België
tel. 03 206 04 91
fax 03 206 04 99
Info: christine.gysen@lessius-ho.be

Conference fee
The fee for the two-day conference and pre-conference workshops (Wednesday 15, Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2006) is € 250 (students € 60). This fee includes registration, the academic programme, the social programme, a copy of the abstracts, all other documentation, and all lunches and coffee break refreshments on Wednesday 15, Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2006, but not accommodation or a copy of the proceedings. The fee for individual days is:
Thursday 16 November: € 85 (students € 30)
Friday 17 November: € 85 (students € 30)
The early bird fee is € 200 for the entire programme (three days) and is valid until 15 June 2006. More details (also on our refunding policy) will be given in the third circular.

Fee for pre-conference workshops:
The fee for individual pre-conference workshops on Wednesday 15 November 2006 is € 75 (students € 30) This fee includes registration, the academic programme, all workshop documentation, and lunch and coffee break refreshments, but not accommodation.

Fees DO NOT INCLUDE bank/transfer charges.

Info:
More information about the 2006 international conference on Terminology can be found on the following websites:
http://www.nlterm.org/
http://www.hszuyd.msti.translation-and-meaning.nedweb.com/

Accommodation:
Participants are expected to make their own arrangements as regards accommodation, but a list of hotels in all price categories will be made available later.

Social events:
Information on conference dinner and social events will be announced later.

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6th Symposium on Translation, Terminology and Interpretation in Cuba and Canada Havana, December 5 and 6, 2006

In an era when different forms of globalization are the subject of much debate, the coexistence of cultures is already part of the daily reality in many countries. The languages of the various cultures may play a major or minor role on the world stage: some languages are more likely to be translated than others; some have a longstanding tradition of translation into their language and others very little; and still others may only be translated into a major language via a third language. But all of them, to a greater or lesser extent, are bridges to other cultures.

Translation, interpretation and terminology serve as a bridge between cultures and can be adapted to fit any given situation. It is from this perspective that we call on colleagues from around the world to give some thought to important issues such as the type of ties that can be established among cultures with major or minor languages, those that coexist within the same country, those that have recently arrived in a country, and those with different historical and political underpinnings. What are the rights of speakers of indigenous languages to be heard in their mother tongue? How does domestic legislation treat language rights? How does one meet the challenge of multilingualism within a multicultural community? What role do language professionals play in defending their culture? And to what extent do language professionals assume the role of "mediators" in this context? These are only some of the issues that will be discussed at the 6th Symposium, in an effort to maintain our well-established tradition of research into language-related matters.

The Canadian Translators and Interpreters Council (CTIC) and the Cuban Association of Translators and Interpreters (ACTI) invite you to participate in the discussions to be held on December 5 and 6, 2006 at the Capitol in Havana as part of the 6th Symposium on Translation, Terminology and Interpretation in Cuba and Canada.

This meeting is the sixth in a series that both parties have been organizing every two years since 1996, initially within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the Instituto de Información Científica y Tecnológica (IDICT) and the Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes du Québec (OTTIAQ).
Beginning with the fifth edition in 2004, ACTI and CTIC took over the organizational reins, in accordance with a new agreement signed at the 2002 meeting.

All those who work in the language field - professionals, researchers, members of professional associations or other related occupations – and who wish to present a paper at the symposium should forward a summary of no more than 250 words to the organizing committee at the e-mail addresses indicated below before May 31, 2006. The committee will study the proposals and respond to the authors before July 31, 2006. A preliminary program is expected to be ready for distribution in September, with the final program being released a few weeks prior to the scheduled meeting date.

All those interested in attending the symposium should include their names on the pre-registration mailing list upon receiving this correspondence. As more information becomes available (program, precise dates, accommodation, etc.), it will be e-mailed to those whose names appear on the list. The registration fee for the symposium is $180 CDN, payable by credit card (as of a date to be specified) or in cash at the Havana Capitol the day prior to the opening of the symposium.

Please forward this invitation to your colleagues – translators, terminologists and interpreters – as well as to your professional associations and orders, so that it reaches as many people as possible. As always, the discussions on these subjects that are so dear to our hearts will be more enriching if we have a large number of participants from diverse and representative backgrounds. We look forward to seeing you in Havana in December 2006.

Elisabet Ràfols-Sagués
Email: erafols@atis-sk.ca
Tel.: (306) 652-4289 (in Canada)

Luis Alberto González Moreno
bibliotecaws@infomed.sld.cu

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Recklinghausen - Summer School Rechtssprache
Veranstalter: BDÜ LV NRW, Justizakademie Recklinghausen
Info & Anmeldung: www.nw.bdue.de/nw > Seminare
Email: nw@bdue.de

Translation, as the bridge between different nations, peoples and cultures, has played an indispensable role in the development of the human civilization. In today’s world where globalization and cultural diversity go hand in hand, it’s no exaggeration to say that the world couldn’t do without translation for even a single day.

The World Congress of the International Federation of Translators (FIT), a top-notch event in the global translation community, traditionally attracts some 600~700 professional translators, interpreters, linguists, terminologists and educators as well as leading players in the industry from around the world to engage in professional exchange, global networking and business pursuits.

The XVIII FIT World Congress, to be hosted by Translators Association of China (TAC), will be the first time that this Congress is ever held in an Asian country. It will be staged at the Shanghai International Convention Center, a modern five-star hotel just next to the landmark of Shanghai – the Oriental Pearl TV Tower on the bank of the beautiful Huangpu River!

Come and enjoy the rich professional programs and the great Chinese civilization in the modern era! The Beijing Olympic Games, too, start only one day later – August 8, 2008!

For more information about the Congress, please visit the Congress website at www.fit2008.org (in English, French and Chinese), or send an e-mail to fit2008info@gmail.com.

CONGRESS TOPICS
1. Translation and Culture
2. Translation of Literature
3. Translation and Languages of Limited Diffusion
4. Translation Service & Translation Technology
5. Teaching and Training in Translation and Interpreting
6. Translation of Professional Texts
7. Consecutive, Simultaneous, and Community-based Interpreting
8. Terminology and Lexicology
9. Professional Associations and their Administration
10. Translation Studies
11. Translation in Publishing
12. Multimedia Translation

SESSION FORMATS
- A panel (90 min) has a chairperson who co-ordinates the session and 3-4 speakers who make brief presentations (15 min each) about a given topic, which is then discussed.
- A presentation (15-30 min) is a talk that doesn’t call for audience participation.
- A poster is a short description of a specific topic displayed on a poster board. At an appointed time, authors are present to discuss their posters.
If you wish to organize a session that differs from the above formats, please contact the program office of the XVIII FIT World Congress Secretariat at fit2008papers@gmail.com, or send a fax message to 86-10-6899 0247.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
I. All proposals should include the following information:
- Your name and professional association, company or employment status, or university
- Your address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address
- The title, type and language of your presentation (in Chinese, English or French only)
- The most appropriate topic heading for your proposal
- An abstract, in Chinese, English or French, of not more than 300 words
II. Deadlines
- Abstract submission: September 30, 2007
- Notice of admission or rejection: December 30, 2007
- Full text submission: June 30, 2008
- Publication of Congress Proceedings: December 2008
III. Submission
Please submit your proposal preferably by e-mailing it to fit2008papers@gmail.com, or by posting it on a 3.5” floppy disc or CD-R as an RTF or Word file, together with two paper copies, to:
2008 FIT World Congress Secretariat
c/o Translators Association of China
24 Baiwanzhuang Street
Xicheng District, Beijing 100037
China
E-Mail: fit2008papers@gmail.com

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Recklinghausen - Summer School Rechtssprache
Veranstalter: BDÜ LV NRW, Justizakademie Recklinghausen
Info & Anmeldung: www.nw.bdue.de/nw > Seminare
Email: nw@bdue.de

Translation, as the bridge between different nations, peoples and cultures, has played an indispensable role in the development of the human civilization. In today’s world where globalization and cultural diversity go hand in hand, it’s no exaggeration to say that the world couldn’t do without translation for even a single day.

The World Congress of the International Federation of Translators (FIT), a top-notch event in the global translation community, traditionally attracts some 600~700 professional translators, interpreters, linguists, terminologists and educators as well as leading players in the industry from around the world to engage in professional exchange, global networking and business pursuits.

The XVIII FIT World Congress, to be hosted by Translators Association of China (TAC), will be the first time that this Congress is ever held in an Asian country. It will be staged at the Shanghai International Convention Center, a modern five-star hotel just next to the landmark of Shanghai – the Oriental Pearl TV Tower on the bank of the beautiful Huangpu River!

Come and enjoy the rich professional programs and the great Chinese civilization in the modern era! The Beijing Olympic Games, too, start only one day later – August 8, 2008!

For more information about the Congress, please visit the Congress website at www.fit2008.org (in English, French and Chinese), or send an e-mail to fit2008info@gmail.com.

CONGRESS TOPICS
1. Translation and Culture
2. Translation of Literature
3. Translation and Languages of Limited Diffusion
4. Translation Service & Translation Technology
5. Teaching and Training in Translation and Interpreting
6. Translation of Professional Texts
7. Consecutive, Simultaneous, and Community-based Interpreting
8. Terminology and Lexicology
9. Professional Associations and their Administration
10. Translation Studies
11. Translation in Publishing
12. Multimedia Translation

SESSION FORMATS
- A panel (90 min) has a chairperson who co-ordinates the session and 3-4 speakers who make brief presentations (15 min each) about a given topic, which is then discussed.
- A presentation (15-30 min) is a talk that doesn’t call for audience participation.
- A poster is a short description of a specific topic displayed on a poster board. At an appointed time, authors are present to discuss their posters.
If you wish to organize a session that differs from the above formats, please contact the program office of the XVIII FIT World Congress Secretariat at fit2008papers@gmail.com, or send a fax message to 86-10-6899 0247.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
I. All proposals should include the following information:
- Your name and professional association, company or employment status, or university
- Your address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address
- The title, type and language of your presentation (in Chinese, English or French only)
- The most appropriate topic heading for your proposal
- An abstract, in Chinese, English or French, of not more than 300 words
II. Deadlines
- Abstract submission: September 30, 2007
- Notice of admission or rejection: December 30, 2007
- Full text submission: June 30, 2008
- Publication of Congress Proceedings: December 2008
III. Submission
Please submit your proposal preferably by e-mailing it to fit2008papers@gmail.com, or by posting it on a 3.5” floppy disc or CD-R as an RTF or Word file, together with two paper copies, to:
2008 FIT World Congress Secretariat
c/o Translators Association of China
24 Baiwanzhuang Street
Xicheng District, Beijing 100037
China
E-Mail: fit2008papers@gmail.com

The Conference will cover the following subareas of Translation Studies:
1. Intercultural Studies 2. Historiography 3. Audiovisual Translation and Accessibility 4. Translation Technologies 5. Teaching, Evaluation, and Accreditation 6. Translation and Psychoanalysis 7. Corpora Studies 8. Cognitive and Expert-Performance Approaches to Translation 9. Sworn and Technical/Specialized Translation 10. Terminology 11. Literary Translation 12. Adaptation Studies 13. Comparative/ Contrastive Studies in Translation 14. Machine Translation 15. Sign Translation 16. Interpreting Studies 17. Translation and Transnational Media 18. Translation of Sensitive Texts

To submit a paper to the Conference, please send name, affiliation, title and abstract (max. 300 words, single-spaced, Times New Roman 12) to the e-mail address abrapt@gmail.com by March 31st, 2009. Papers may be given in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. Please say which subarea of the Conference you wish your paper to be included in.

DEADLINES AND FEES:
By 31 May 2009 By 31 August 2009 From 1 Sept. 2009/ On site Brazilian students R$60 R$80 R$90 ABRAPT members R$120 R$160 R$180 Brazilian teachers R$180 R$240 R$270 Others R$200 R$270 R$300 (Fees in Brazilian Reais) ABRAPT annual fee: R$50
Contact: X ENTRAD, DELET-ICHS-UFOP
Rua do Seminário S/N. / Centro / Mariana / MG / Brazil. 35420-000
Fone/Fax: +55 31 3557 9401

Contact: abrapt@gmail.com

International Translator Day
Internationaler Übersetzertag/ International Translator Day
Veranstaltungen zum Thema “Literarisches Übersetzen”
Events covering Literary Translation
Info: www.literaturuebersetzer.de

This is a call for preliminary expressions of interest in presenting a paper at the Kinship workshop to be held as part of the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics.

Call for Papers

Study of kinship terminologies and systems has been one of the major joint endeavours of comparative linguistics and the social sciences, especially anthropology. Reconstruction of prehistoric systems has shed light on the form of the societies of proto-language speakers and the changes leading to present-day societies. In turn the systematic study of the typology of, and constraints on, kinship systems in anthropology has assisted linguists in their reconstruction work. While kinship, particularly diachronic kinship, has become unfashionable in anthropology in the last 20-30 years, it is now experiencing a renaissance, with new publications appearing often drawing on linguistic evidence. There is also significant interest in history in documented kinship changes in Europe and elsewhere, and this provides a more detailed source about transitions in meanings and their motivations which can aid in reconstruction. We are calling for papers on examples of reconstruction of proto-terminologies in families and sub-groups; change in morphology, semantics and usage, and borrowing of terms, whether based on prehistoric reconstructions or written sources. Papers on theoretical and methodological issues, especially addressing the interdisciplinary nature of this field, are also welcomed.

Please send your name and affiliation and a short indication of your area or interest and/or the topic of a possible paper in the Kinship workshop to Patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au. This is simply so that the workshop organizers can get an idea of who might be contributing, and so that we can keep those who have been in touch informed of any developments. In due course there will be a formal abstract submission process through the conference website but that is not implemented yet.

Info: Patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au

CILC-09 is the first event of a conference series launched by AELINCO, the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (the registration of the association is being processed). The conference will be held from Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th May 2009 in the premises of Campus La Merced, University of Murcia, Spain.

We are pleased to announce that the following scholars have confirmed participation as plenary speakers:
-Michael Barlow, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
-Adam Kilgarriff, Lexicography MasterClass (United Kingdom)
-Ramesh Krishnamurthy, University of Aston, Birmingham (United Kingdom)

20-minute presentations and poster sessions are welcome from a range of subfields, including:
- corpus-based computational linguistics
- corpus-based historical linguistics
- corpus linguistics and linguistic theory
- corpus creation, software development, annotation, tagging and parsing
- corpus-based language research: semantics, lexicology and phraseology
- corpus-based language research: orthography and phonology
- corpus-based language research: morphology and syntax
- corpus-based language research: stylistics and sociolinguistics
- corpus-based language research: discourse analysis and pragmatics
- applications of corpora in language teaching
- applications of corpora in translation
- applications of corpora in lexicography

The submission deadline is 31st January 2009.

Info: http://www.um.es/congresos/cilc09/cilceng.html