and Interpreting

Co-Chairs:

Monique Rouzet Lelièvre (UNETICA) France, E-mail
Christine Springer (ÖVGD), Austria, E-mail

Members:

Jane Rollet (SFT), France, E-mail
Natascha Dalügge-Momme (ADÜ Nord), Germany, E-mail
Lidia Irene Jeansalle (CTPCBA), Argentina, E-mail
Nancy Schweda-Nicholson (ATA), USA, E-mail
Miodrag Vukcevic, (ASTTS), Serbia, E-mail 
Helene Biesheuvel, (SFÖ), Sweden, E-mail
Emma Garcia, (Conalti), Venezuela, E-mail
Raquel Atencio, (APTI), Panama, E-mail
Doris Grollmann, (CBTIP), Belgium, E-mail
Mary Ann Monteagudo, (CTP), Peru, E-mail
GE Yajun, (TAC), China, E-mail
Zofia Rybinska, (TEPIS), Poland, E-mail

Mandate:

• To organize international meetings as a platform for legal translators and court interpreters to meet and exchange opinions and experiences
• To participate in international projetcs concerning LTCI
• To assist national associations in implementing their public tasks
• To contribute to promoting the professional status of legal translators and court interpreters
• To ensure adequate dissemination of information about legal translation and court interpreting

• Working programme 2010-2012

• from Poland: TEPIS activities
• from Uruguay FIT Report on Translators
• from Uruguay : Plan of Studies for Sworn Translators

Activity reports:

• Report 2011
• Report 2010
• Shanghai 2008 - Round Table Court Interpretation

• Report 2006 - 2007
• Report 2005-2008
• Report of the 9th International FIT Forum - Tampere

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The FIT Committee for Legal Translation and Court Interpreting
in cooperation with
the Association of Scientific and Technical Translators of Serbia (UPIT)
organizes
under the auspices of the International Federation of Translators
THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL FORUM
THE LIFE OF INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS -
JOY AND SORROW?
and is pleased to invite
translators, interpreters, academics, researchers and students
to attend the Belgrade International Forum

to be held from September 19th (arrivals and get together) to September 21st, 2013

To address the challenges created by the process of globalization, the rapprochement of cultures and the increasing cooperation between different language communities, we propose the following topics:

• Ethics and good practices
  
• Basic and further training and development of legal translators and court interpreters
  
• Cooperation with institutions and clients cooperation among colleagues
  
• Professional and legal status legal and public recognition of professional qualifications
  
• New tools (CAT) in specialized terminology
  
• Intercultural communication
  
• Future prospects.

You are kindly invited to submit a short bio- and bibliographical notice, conference topic, abstract and key-words of your paper. Deadline for sending abstracts: April 15th 2013
Length of abstracts with the usual affiliation: not more than 1.500 characters.
Authors are expected to send their abstracts to: Miodrag VUKČEVIĆ, UPIT, ul. Kičevska 9, 11000 BEOGRAD, SERBIA (upit@me.com sm.vukcevic@neobee.net)
Languages: English and French
A notification of acceptance for the submitted abstracts will be sent by May 31st 2013. All accepted papers will be published after the conference in Conference Proceedings.

Venue: Hotel Metropol Palace
Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 69
Belgrade 11000, Serbia

Registration fees:

• €120 till August 1st, 2013
• €150 between August 1st and September 19th, 2013
  

Banking details will be provided later on.