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Участие представителей РГПУ им. А.И. Герцена и Высшей школы перевода в конференции CIUTI

On 17 – 18 January, First Vice-Rector Sergey Goncharov and Deputy Director of the School Angelique Antonova took part in the conference “Facing the World’s New Challenges. The Role of T&I in Providing Integrated, Efficient and Sustainable Solutions” held by CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d’Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes), the world’s oldest and most prestigious international association of university institutes with translation and interpretation programs. First Vice-Rector S. Goncharov made a presentation «The role of Russian in the New Geopolitical Settings with Special Focus on the Commonwealth of Independent States» which provoked a lively discussion among the Heads of Translation and Interpretation Services in the European Commission and Directors of Translation and Interpretation Schools.

The conference offered Vice Rector Goncharov and Deputy Director Angelique Antonova an opportunity to have a number of useful meetings with senior officials from the UN, the European Commission and Directors of European translation and interpretation schools. The results of a five year cooperation programme between Herzen University and the UN Office in Geneva were discussed at the meeting with Director of the UNOG Conference Management Department Vladimir Grachev. Mr Grachev expressed his satisfaction with the graduates’ level of performance and shared his vision of developing a Conference management programme at the School.

An agreement on cooperation between Herzen University and the WHO (World Health organization) was reached at a meeting with Mr. Mc Carey, Head of the WHO Translation Service. Under this agreement, the School will train language specialists to meet the needs of the WHO.

Mr Martikonis, Director General of DGT, the European Commission, was satisfied with the cooperation between Herzen University and DGT. He stressed the importance of maintaining the momentum of cooperation in translator training despite financial constraints. In recognition of the quality of the translation program at the School, Mr Martikonis proposed that the School should join the EMT (European Master’s Program in Translation).

Director General of DG SCIC at the European Commission, Mr Benedetti, assured First Vice-Rector Goncharov that the cooperation between DG SCIC and Herzen University will gather pace regardless of the economic problems, as DG SCIC is seeking to employ qualified interpreters with the Russian language moving forward, and the School is the only institution in Russia with an appropriate training program. Mr Benedetti confirmed his participation in the conference “Fighting the Fog in Multilingualism” to be held on 4-5 March at the Herzen University and timed to mark Director Irina Alexeeva’s jubilee.

A meeting with Ms B. Moser-Mercier, Director of FTI UNIGE, was both fruitful and interesting. The parties discussed steps to be taken to start a joint Master’s program in Conference Interpreting in partner universities and the upcoming visit of the Geneva University delegation to Herzen University as part of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation program Switzeland – Russia. The delegation also plans to take part in the events marking Director Alexeeva’s jubilee.

At the meeting with Ms T. Bodrova, Director of ESIT (L’École Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs), the parties agreed to cooperate in training conference interpreters and translators. Ms T. Bodrova will also take part in the jubilee conference.

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Санкт-Петербургская высшая школа перевода объявляет набор на семинар-тренинг "Навыки двустороннего синхронного перевода" (21 января-28 февраля 2013 г.)

15 ноября 2012 г.: Школа приняла участие в конференции Генерального директората письменного перевода «Translating Skills into Jobs»

On 15 November, School Deputy Director Angelique Antonova took part in the 2013 DGT – EMT conference “Translating skills into jobs”. The conference addressed translation quality criteria and their adjustment for recent graduates, graduate employment and strategies to bring together graduates and employers. The presentations were followed by discussions, and I was pleased to note that many of the proposed ideas have already been realized in the School, while in certain respects the School is well in advance in building cooperation with the employers. The School’s good practice of building cooperation with the linguistic services of the UN, Russian MFA, as well as with the Russian private translation agencies was appreciated by the DGT and the conference participants.

The School received an invitation to join the EMT Consortium.

The meeting with Mr Martikonis, Director General of the DGT, outlined the perspectives for the further cooperation between our organizations. Mr Verleysen, Director of the DGT, accepted the invitation to take part in the conference “Fighting the Fog in Multilingualism” organized by the School in March 2013.

At another meeting, the representatives of the DG SCIC, European Commission, the School’s Vice-President Noël Muylle and Deputy Director Antonova discussed the possibility to introduce congress and meeting management as a training module in the School curriculum.

День Переводчика 2012: Каков урожай!

The celebration of the Translator Day in the School followed a busy working day: on top of the usual classes, the students attended a master class of Andrey Falaleev, a trainer of simultaneous interpreting from Monterey. The gist of the training was to make students to grasp the meaning of the phrase, instantly adjusting the style and “fighting off a knee-jerk reaction to substitute Russian words by the English ones”. It would seem the student had not a drop of energy left after the three days of Liam Long’s master classes, but no! they were as fresh and as willing to work as before.

A nice introduction to the celebration was the videolink to the expert roundtable discussion on Interpreters in Conflict Zones, taking place simultaneously in Boston and Geneva. Olga Cosmidou, Director General of the DG INTE, European Parliament, took place in this videocast. Also, the students had a chance to hear and see Barbara Moser-Mercier – head of the School of Interpretation and Translation in Geneva and supervisor of our joint project.

The celebration opened with the presentation of the last year’s “crop”: besides the textbooks written by the School trainers Liang Cuizhen (“Chinese Interpretation”) and Irina Martianova and Valentina Cherniak (“Russian for Interpreters”), there was a number of literary translations done by the School trainers. Among them are “Gondolatok a Kapitalizmusról” by Kornai János and “Jamrach’s Menagerie” by Carol Birch, both translated by Oxana Yakimenko, “Los Girasoles Ciegos” by Alberto Méndez and “Jardines Segredos de Mogador” by Alberto Ruy Sanchez, both translated by Vladimir Litus, poems by Celso Emilio Ferreiro translated by Yuri Shashkov and Maria Tolstaya, a complex philosophical essay by Marcelino Agis Villaverde “Camiñantes: Un Iterario Filosofico” done by Maria Tolstaya. The colleagues pleased us all proving again that the simultaneous is not the only craft to earn one’s bread with. There were many guests, though mostly the birds of our nest, the graduates.The new students entertained all present with a potpourri political performance; the graduates showed slides from their trip around the US west coast; the Kazakh diplomats said a few kind words about the School…

Our band of friends is growing! Congratulations!

Translation Forum Russia 2012 в Казани: Стремительные шаги отрасли translation industry striding on

On 30 September, the Translators’ Day, a salute of colored balloons soaring into the cloudless sky of Kazan marked the last day of Translation Forum Russia – the biggest professional conference in Russia bringing together language mediators from all over the country. A record number of people – around 500 – took part in the event.

As usual, the School was actively engaged in organizing and carrying out the Forum. Several days ahead of the Forum, an auto rally set off from Moscow with a message to promote language mediation in Russian cities. In Nizhni Novgorod, along the itinerary, a round table was held for students and trainers of the Nizhni Novgorod Linguistic University and the city’s language mediating community. The auto rally team was mainly composed of the leaders of major translation agencies. The School’s Deputy Director Angelique Antonova and its Honorary Vice President Noël Muylle represented the School.

During the Forum, the School led the round table on multilingualism, with Alexander Gorelik, the UN Information Center Director, and Noël Muylle, Honorary Director General of the European Commission as experts; Teimuraz Ramishvili, Head of the Linguistic Support Department, Russian MFA, participated actively in the discussion of language mediation issues. The School trainer Ekaterina Shutova moderated the round table on the issues of interpreter training. For the first time the Forum held a series of master classes on translation and interpretation from and into German by Irina Alexeeva. Also for the first time in the Forum’s history, the School trainer Thatcher Mines and Managing Director of the “Eclectic Translations” Agency William Hackett-Jones organized the work of the Freelance Workshop.

Among a multitude of topics, language mediation in sport attracted special attention, and the Sochi Organizing Committee members Andrey Moiseev and Elizaveta Sgibneva took time to answer all questions.

It is pointless to go through each and every issues discussed at the Forum in Kazan. One thing is clear though: the language mediation industry is rapidly taking shape, translators and interpreters do not hesitate to discuss challenges of improving the quality of their product and raising the social standing of the profession. We are glad that the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation stands at the center of this important process.