http://www.inttranews.net/ News Site for Linguists, Interpreters, Translators, Teachers, Translation Project Managers, Students http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=49759 Manchester, UK (Manchester University): Writing in English: how Classics and Translation Studies can learn from each other. This paper explores how translation can go beyond communication between ancient Greek and Latin and modern language contexts and can play a central role in creating new literary texts. It identifies some contemporary Anglophone literary contexts in which classical texts and translations have met and examines the implications for all three spheres. For more information, please visit: listserv.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TRANSLATION-STUDIES Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:47:04 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=49572 New York, USA (Utica): Ten interpreters, including seven from the Utica area, recently graduated from an 80-hour medical interpreter course conducted by MAMI Community Interpreters. With this training, they can now help the medical community communicate with patients who lack proficiency in English. For more information, please visit: www.uticaod.com/business/x1920347650/ON-THE-MOVES Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:25:55 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=49571 London, UK (IATIS): The Translation Research Summer School (TRSS UK) organizes an annual two-week course offering intensive research training in translation and intercultural studies for prospective researchers in the field. The next session will be held in London in June 2010. Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London (UCL). For more information, please visit: www.researchschool.org/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:25:24 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=49057 Brussels, Belgium (CT): A programme that trains hundreds of students in working cross-culturally in language based development has received Government approval. The European Training Programme (ETP) received recognition for the high quality of its courses. Specifically, the British Accreditation Council recognised ETP for "effective teaching" and "well planned sessions, delivered with knowledge and humour by competent and knowledgeable staff". For more information, please visit: www.christiantoday.com/article/bible.translators.course.receives.government.approval/25089.htm Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:22:18 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=49053 /img_spM8WrpLsWLiyhyJkPUo_0.jpgTokyo, Japan (Kyodo News): Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told his Indonesian and Philippine counterparts in Tokyo on Sunday that the Japanese government would consider how Japan can address the possible language barrier faced by the countries' nurses in sitting for Japan's national qualifying exams For more information, please visit: home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=480861 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:13:47 +0100