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A Word Born: ZIL Cultural Center

On 10 October ZIL Cultural Center hosted another meeting of the series HowWords Are Born: Meetings with Translators. In a cosy atmosphere Irina Alexeeva, SCIT Director, shared with guests her ideas about translation, authors and their translators; read from some of her new translations. The audience included SCIT graduates presently employed at the Russian MFA. The hostess for the evening was Elena Kalashnikova, a journalist.

SCIT graduate Ekaterina Ageeva comes first in International Simultaneous Interpreters Competition!

Ekaterina Ageeva, SCIT alumna 2017, won the International Simultaneous Interpreters Competition Cosinus Pi 2017, held by Moscow State University, by a significant margin.  Our congratulations to Katya on this remarkable achievement!

SCIT hosts Ildikó Horváth

On 19-21 September 2017 г. SCIT hosted Mrs. Ildikó Horváth, President of the EMCI Governing Board. Mrs Horvath gave a number of Training for Trainers seminars and master-classes for students in autonomous learning, sport psychology and interpreting and professional bilingualism / multilingualism.

28 July 2017: Diploma Award Ceremony at SCIT

On 28 July a Diploma Award Ceremony for SCIT graduates took place in the Mariinsky Hall of Herzen University. The ceremony was attended by a lot of distinguished guests, among whom were Movses Abelian, Assistant to the UN Secretary General, Vladimir Goncharenko, Director of the Linguistic Support Department, Russian MFA, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Director of the UN Information Center in Moscow, Vladimir Zapevalov, Russian MFA Representative in St. Petersburg, Irina Ganus, Deputy Head of the Committee for Science and Higher Education, Government of St. Petersburg, William Hackett-Jones, Director of Eclectic Translations. The Herzen University administration was represented by Gennady Bordovsky, President of Herzen University, and Mikhail Puchkov, Acting Vice-Rector.
In their welcoming speeches the guests stressed the importance of language mediation for international communication. They metaphorically spoke of interpretation as ‘swimming’ and compared interpreters with a rescue team in the sea of communication.
SCIT Director Irina Alexeeva presented her annual report on the results of the study year. She outlined the SCIT mission today as improving the quality of translation with Russian on the international arena and promoting the Russian language and culture worldwide. It is also essential, she said, to contribute to the development of the T&I industry in Russia, and make SCIT a brand name for Herzen University.
This year SCIT turned out 7 graduates, with one of them receiving a SCIT diploma within the joint study project with Geneva University.
Farewell, and may a following wind fill your sails, dear graduates!

Representatives of Ministry of Education and Government of St. Petersburg visiting SCIT

On 12 May SCIT held the presentation of the new equipment purchased with the grant from the Government of St. Petersburg. The presentation was attended by the distinguished guests: Valentina Pereverzeva, Deputy Minister of Education, Vladimir Kirillov, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Zapevalov, Russian MFA Representative in St. Petersburg, Andrei Maximov, Head of the Committee for Science and Higher Education in the Government of St. Petersburg. Rector Sergey Bogdanov welcomed the guests. Angelique Antonova, SCIT Deputy Director, told about the School’s mission and the results achieved, Ekaterina Shutova, SCIT trainer and renowned interpreter, demonstrated the new equipment at work. Director Irina Alexeeva handed to Vice-Governor Kirillov a letter of gratitude from Veniamin Yakovlev, Advisor to President of Russia and Head of the SCIT Board of Guardians.

The presentation of the equipment opened a series of events marking the 220^th Anniversary of Herzen University.