Y se hizo EULITA (Amberes I)

Thursday 26.11.2009

13.00 – 17.00  Registration

14.00   Foundation Meeting of EULITA

Welcome: Erik Hertog

Video message from Vice-President of the EU Commission and Commissioner for JLS: Mr. Jacques Barrot

Eulita: Expectations from DG JLS: Caroline Morgan (DG JLS)

Presentation of Eulita JLS/2007/JPEN/249 The European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association

Position statements by representatives from CIUTI, FIT, DG Interpretation, EFSLI, AIIC and NAJIT.

15.30 – 16.00  Coffee

16.00-17.00 Q&A session

17.30- 18.30   Official launch of EULITA at the Court of First Instance

• Speakers from the Court, the Belgian Ministry of Justice, CCBE and ECBA

18.30   Reception

Friday 27.11.2009

08.00 – 09.00  Registration

09.00 – 10.30  Plenary Opening Session

•  Opening and Welcome :  Erik Hertog and Prof. Dr. Flora Carrijn, Vice-Chancellor Lessius University College

•  Opening Address: EU Commissioner Leonard Orban, Commissioner for Multilingualism

• Chair: Liese Katschinka

• European Court of Human Rights case-law on the right to language assistance in criminal proceedings – James Brannan

• EU cross-border cases involving lack of satisfactory translation and interpretation facilities – Catherine Heard

10.30 – 10.30  Coffee

11.00 – 13.00  Parallel Sessions

Session 1: Translation and Interpreting in Police Settings

Session 2: Country Profiles I

Session 3: Terminology

13.00 – 14.00  Lunch

14.00 – 15.30  Parallel Sessions

Session 4: Translation and Interpreting for the Courts

Session 5: The International Scene

15.30 – 16.00  Coffee

16.00 – 18.00  Parallel Sessions

Session 6: Translation and Interpreting in Asylum Hearings

Session 7: Training Part I

Workshop 1: Videoconference and remote interpreting in legal proceedings

18.30 – 19.30  Reception at the historic Antwerp Town Hall

20.00   Conference Dinner at ‘De Colvenier’

• Session 1: Translation and Interpreting in Police Settings. Chair: Christine Wilson
  • Translating for the law enforcement – Patrizia Brugnoli
  • Legal translation and interpreting by the linguistic staff of the Italian Ministry of the Interior – Cinzia Iaboni
  • o The changing face of language service provision for the Metropolitan Police Service: 2012 and beyond – Amanda Clement, Michael Brooker
• Session 2: Country Profiles I. Chair: Zofia Rybinska
  • Exploring the concept of quality of legal interpretation in Sweden anno 2009 – Arja Mäntykangas
  • Court interpreters and sworn translators of legal language: The case of Slovenia – Viktorija Osolnik Kunc
  • Interpreters in the legal process in Italy: A survey – Annalisa Sandrelli, Anna Caterina Alimenti
  • Le statut et l’utilisation de traducteurs et interprètes en justice en France – Harm Diepenbroek, Georges Moukheiber
• Session 3: Terminology. Chair: Anna-Riitta Vuoriskoski
  • Official translation in Europe: Systems and practices – Francisco Vigier
  • Developing information mining competence in legal translation training – Anastasia Atabekova
  • Automatising genre metadata for the management of multilingual communication in legal domains – Anabel Borja Albi, Esther Monzó
  • Creation of a terminology data base for the Austrian Asylum Law – Irmgard Soukup-Unterweger, Tanja Wissik
• Session 4: Translation and Interpreting for the Courts . Chair: Fernando Gascón Nasarre
  • Nuremberg in Madrid: Provision of interpreting services during the Madrid train bomb trial – Anne Martin, Juan Miguel Ortega Herráez
  • Translation and interpretation for the Portuguese courts – Anne Brunke
  • The right to free access to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings: Spanish panorama – Mar Jimeno-Bulnes
  • Session 5: The International Scene. Chair: Danuta Kierzkowska
    • Newly implemented judicial reform in Japan and the impact on its legal interpreting and translation – Mamoru Tsuda
    • An industry-led collaborative mechanism for development of legal translators and interpreters: Case of Tianjin – Yajun GE
    • Development of a court interpreters association: NAJIT – Nancy Festinger
• Session 6: Translation and Interpreting in Asylum Hearings. Chair: Amalija Macek
  • Legal interpreting and translation in asylum/immigration proceedings in Italy – Flavia Caciagli Conigliaro
  • Linguistic minorities on trial: Reflections on interpreting multilingual identities in legal settings – Katrijn Maryns
• Session 7: Training Part I. Chair: Isabelle Perez
  • Training legal translators without legal training? – Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Catherine Way
  • Training interpreters and translators for courts and public authorities: a further education course at the University of Hamburg – George Drummond
  • Master «Traduction et interprétation juridique» (HS Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) / UBS Lorient): démarche dans la mise en place d’un diplôme conjoint franco-allemand – Christiane Driesen, Anne Lequy, Jean Peeters, Mariannick Guennec
  • Design, implementation and evaluation of a programme on intercultural communication and public service interpreting and translation – Carmen Valero-Garcés
  • Beyond the bar… Behind bars: A case study on translation and interpreting in Spanish prisons – Aída Martinez-Gómez Gómez
  • Loi de la ville libre et hanséatique de Hambourg relative aux interprètes et traducteurs: un modèle pour l’Europe? – N. Dalügge-Momme
  • Who can monitor the court interpreter’s performance? Results of a case study – Bodil Martinsen
  • Court interpreting in the U.S. state courts – Carola Green
  • Une justice de qualité exige une traduction de qualité – Elhassane Benhaddou Handi
  • La traduction juridique: langue, droit et culture dans le Master T3L de l’Université Paris 8 – Barbara Villez, Oana Gheorghe, Charlène Goasguen

• Workshop 1. Chair: Sandro Paolucci

Videoconference and remote interpreting in legal proceedings: Sabine Braun

Saturday 28.11.2009

09.00 – 10.30  Parallel Sessions

Session 8: Interpreting in International Courts

Session 9: Translation in International Courts

Workshop 2: Interpreters and the Police: Do interpreters need to know interviewing techniques?

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee

11.00 – 12.30  Parallel Sessions

Session 10: Country Profiles II

Session 11: Training Part II

Session 12: Country Profiles III

12.30   Closing Plenary

• Ruth Morris – Legal Interpreting and Translation: Lessons Learned

• Erik Hertog – Concluding Remarks

• Session 8: Interpreting in International Courts . Chair: Christiane Driesen
  • What is accurate interpretation? – Jelena Stojkovic-Ring
  • What can domestic courts learn from international courts and tribunals about good practice court interpreting? From the Australian War Crimes Prosecutions to the International Criminal Court – Ludmila Stern
  • Interpreting at the International Criminal Court: Linguistic issues and challenges – Nancy Schweda Nicholson
  • L’interprétation juridique à la Cour de Justice – Daniela Amodeo Perillo, Hubertha Kuyf

• Session 9: Translation in International Courts. Chair: Liese Katschinka
  • Translation problems specific to documents in ICTY Trials – Alice Copple-Tosic, Borislava Sasic, Ana Stefanovski
  • In search of equivalence – Radmila Schneider
  • Legal translation at the Court of Justice of the European Communities – Kari Liiri

• Workshop 2. Chair: Yolanda vanden Bosch

Interpreters and the Police: Do interpreters need to know interviewing techniques? Dirk Rombouts

• Session 10: Country Profiles II. Chair: Kaarina Hietanen
  • Legal framework and some practical aspects of the performance of interpreting and translation by the court appointed interpreters and translators in the Czech Republic – Jana Schovancova
  • Some aspects of legal interpreting in Sweden – Alexander Karlsen, Jennie Fors
  • Legal interpreting in Italy: Recruitment policies and quality standards – Fiorenza Maffei, Mette Rudvin, Elena Tomassini, Christopher Garwood
  • La formation des interprètes judiciaires en Pologne. Etat des lieux – Małgorzata Tryuk
  • The main features of the Austrian Court Interpreters Act: A model for future developments – Christine Springer

• Session 11: Training Part II. Chair: Juan Miguel Ortega Herraez
  • Preparing for the interpreter’s role in the social drama of law: Interpreting as performance in the liminal space – Şebnem Bahadır
  • Ethical dilemmas of an interpreter trainer – Mary Phelan
  • Testing interpreters: Issues regarding the development, administration and grading of court interpreter examinations – Lois M. Feuerle
  • Continuing education courses for Estonian court interpreters at the University of Tartu – Mall Tamm, Andrei Muršak
  • Professionals and their interpreters in multilingual societies – Gertrud Hofer

• Session 12: Country Profiles III. Chair: Katalin Balogh
  • Two ways with one start and end: The position of court interpreters and translators in the Czech and Slovak Republics – Zuzana Guldanová, Marketa Štefková, Pavlína Knap-Dlouhá
  • Legal interpreting and translation under the new Dutch Law on Sworn Interpreters and Translators – Han von den Hoff
  • Déontologie de la traduction et de l’interprétation en milieu judiciaire – Monique Rouzet Lelievre
  • Accessing justice through an interpreter in Ireland’s District Courts – Kate Waterhouse
  • The function of a “court interpreter and/or translator” in the Federal Republic of Germany: preconditions, qualifications, compensations and legal basis – Helena Piprek

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