Events & announcements

During this webinar, you will learn:

1. The features & benefits of Translation Workspace
2. Complete review of our affordable, flexible subscription plans & prices
3. A summary of training and support programs included with all subscriptions to help you succeed

See: Time Option 1: 9am ET | 1pm GMT

or: Time Option 2: 9pm ET | 1am GMT (+ 1 Day)

The seminar will take plane on July 23-24 at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino,  Las Vegas, NV (USA).

See: IMTT

Students at Yale’s Department of Linguistics are running an online survey of different accents in American English. Anyone who has grown up speaking English in America or Canada can participate in the survey.

See: Pantheon.yale.edu

The annual ProZ.com international conference is a strongly rooted tradition within the biggest translators community worldwide. It was started in 2001 by Angela Arnone with the first World Conference in Tuscany. Since then, the ProZ.com conferences family has grown along with the number of events conducted every year, but the international conference remained and became the “must attend event” for many translators.

Ever since the first conference, dedicated site members and local organizers have closely worked with staff to hold this conference yearly, making it an excellent excuse for all translators to leave their office, travel, see old friends and make new ones, benefit from top industry speakers, learn about the latest trends as well as ways to improve and boost their work, visit new places… and, of course, celebrate (and much more)!

This year, the beautiful city of Prague will host this historic event, held under the motto “Achieving Recognition and Prestige”, hoping to find the answer(s) to a question that appears to be a major concern for the translation profession: “What can we do on our own as translators to achieve recognition for our work and a high standing that we certainly deserve?”

Complete information, program and registration here .

Early-bird discounted registration expires on August 1st.

Han Yu, of the Technical Writing and Professional Communication department at Kansas State University, has announced a call for book contributors for an upcoming collection titled Negotiating International and Cross-Cultural Technical Communication: Stories of Technical Communicators. The collection invites practicing technical communicators to tell their stories negotiating international and cross-cultural contexts, including stories in localization and translation.

See: Multilingual

The five day literary-cultural event starting from 23rd of this month is the biggest such gathering in the history of modern Tamil Nadu. President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil will inaugurate the literary-cultural extravaganza in the presence of the world torch bearers of Tamil language and the Tamil Culture that include Dr.M. Karunanidhi, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

The outcome of the conference will blossom and carry the fragrance of uniqueness, richness and legacy of the Tamil language all over the world and add a new dimension to India’s inclusive growth process.

See: Northern Voices Online

Introduction to the Wordfast Translation Studio. June 23rd 16:00 – 17:00 GMT

Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0 – An Introduction. June 24th 13:00 – 14:00 GMT

See: ProZ.com Webinars

Language Business Innovation – Shared Opportunities

The TAUS User Conference is the once-a-year, non-sponsored event focused on translation automation, localization business innovation and industry collaboration. The User Conference is combined with the TDA General Meeting.  It will be held from 3-6 October at the Governor Hotel, Portland (OR), USA.

See: TAUS

Dr. Jeffrey M. Angles, associate professor of foreign languages at Western Michigan University, has been awarded the 2009 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.

Columbia University’s Donald Keene Center for Japanese Studies annually gives out one prize in modern literature as well as one prize in classical literature. The 2009 prizes were presented during an April ceremony in New York.

Angles earned the modern literature honor for his forthcoming translation of Tada Chimako’s “Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako,” scheduled to be published by the University of California Press this year.

See: WMU News

The International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) announces the establishment of another set of IMIA Annual Awards to its cadre, the IMIA Distinction in Medical Interpreter Education Awards. This award will recognize two individuals, one representing the international training and academic environment, and the other representing interpreter training and education as done in the US.

This yearly award recognizes the need for outstanding interpreter educators as role models across the country and abroad, for improved medical interpreter education. The recipient will be an educator, instructor, or language coach, and the selection will be based on concrete examples of what they have achieved and for the promise of what they will accomplish.

The deadline to nominate an interpreter educator is July 15, 2010.

See: SEO Press Releases

Translators without Borders (Traducteurs Sans Frontières), a not-for-profit focused on spreading knowledge through humanitarian translations, will hold its first board meeting on 8 June 2010 at Localization World in Berlin. The newly appointed board, which will help steer the organization toward a goal of 10 million translated words per year, consists of translation and localization leaders from around the world.

See: TWB

The conference will be held on June 7-9, 2010 at the Maritim proArte hotel, Friedrichstraße 151 10117 Berlin, Germany.

See: Localization World

Those who purchase or renew membership before June 17th will receive a 10% discount on SDL Trados training and certification, and a 33% discount on webinar presentations.

Upcoming webinars:

June 1 – Be special: standing out in the language services industry

June 4 – Web writing for translators

June 8 – Comparación de herramientas de traducción: Across, Catalyst, Déjà Vu, Logoport, MemoQ, Metatexis, Passolo, Trados, Wordfast y otras (in Spanish).

June 10 – An introduction to translating for film and television

June 11 – The art, science and commerce of pricing your translation-related products and services

June 17 – Technical aspects of subtitling

June 18 – HTML for translators

June 24 – Creative translation for the moving image

June 25 – Project management for translation business: making clients and yourself happier

July 9 – Social networking guide for freelancers and agency owners

See: ProZ.com/translator-training

Dynamic, respected and exciting presenters are sought to participate in ProZ.com’s 2010 virtual conferences. Three events will be held, one each for freelance translators, agencies/LSPs and end clients.

ProZ.com virtual conferences are free to attend for registered and approved attendees. Conference presenters and breakout session leaders volunteer their time in exchange for exposure and the opportunity to present their topic to a worldwide audience. A combination of pre-recorded material and live session interaction will be used to create the virtual conference presentations. If you are interested in virtual conference presenter opportunities, please fill out an application.

See: ProZ.com Virtual-conferences

Tehran’s Allameh Tabatabaei University will hold a commemoration ceremony today for the late Iranian linguist and lexicographer Ali-Mohammad Haqshenas.

Noted Iranian linguists Mohammad Dabir-Moqaddam and Kourosh Safavi will speak at the event to be held at the university’s Literature and Foreign Languages Faculty, ISNA reported.

Known as the Father of Iranian Linguistics, Haqshenas passed away last month at the age of 70.

See: Tehran Times

Hong Kong, China (HKBU): The Fourth Cross‐Taiwan Straits Symposium on Translation and Intercultural Communication (CSSTIC) will be its first convention in Hong Kong. The event will take place on 8-10 July 2011, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. It is Organized by the Translation Programme and the Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University.

See: tran.hkbu.edu

The conference will be held on July 31 and and August 1, 2010 in  São Paulo. Early bird registration expires on June 1st.

See: ProZ.com conferences

ForeignExchange Translations, Inc., will hold a one-day workshop on June 29, 2010, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. The workshop — World-class translation management: from vendor selection to in-country review — features Inna Geller, former senior localization operations manager for Medtronic, covering topics such as vendor selection, setting up translation process best practices, collecting quality metrics and in-country review.

See: Multilingual

The Second China Translation Profession Forum will be held at Yingjie Exchange Center, Peking University on May 29, 2010.

Guided by the Localization Service Committee of Translators Association of China (TAC), the forum is co-sponsored by five major universities in Beijing and Tianjin areas, including Peking University and Nankai University. As a follow-up of the first forum last year, this one will focus on China’s education of professional translators as is aided with modern language technology, aiming at the standardization of translators training and the enhancement of our translation industry.

The themes include the cooperation between educational institutions and translation industry, and the optimization of the overall environment for the industry.

See: pkumti

The Ninth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas will be held October 31—November 5, 2010 in Denver, Colorado, immediately following the ATA conference.

See:  AMTA