On 23-25 January 2013 Mr David Smith, Head of the English booth of the DG SCIC, European Commission, gave a series of master-classes. He focused exclusively on interpreting into English, and his professional advice on mastering the retour is hard to overestimate.
Mikhail Kuzmenko, Reviser, the Russian Translation Section of the UN Office in Geneva, gave master classes at St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation from January 14 to February 2, 2013. He gave a series of classes in institutional translation, introduced the trainees to the UN terminology resources and documents, conducted a trial test in translation from English into Russian based on the UN general examination text, and gave the trainees general and individual recommendations on improving their translation skills
On 4 and 5 of March Herzen University hosted the International Conference “Fighting the Fog in Multilingualism: the Importance of Clear Writing and Speaking” dedicated to the 5 th anniversary of St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation. Vyacheslav
Makarov, Chairman of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Alexander Prokhorenko, Chair of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, Teimuraz Ramishvili, Director of the Language Support Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and Brian Fox,
Director of the Directorate General for Interpreting of the European Commission welcomed the participants of the event. All of them spoke about the importance of the qualified language mediators training for the modern world, praised the School’s achievements and stressed the
necessity to support the project. Then the floor was given to renowned researchers and heads of translation and interpreting schools, including Barbara Moser-Mercer, Director of FTI (Geneva) and Tatiana Bodrova-Gogenmos, Director of ESIT (University Paris-3, New Sorbonne).
The final chord of the conference was translation recitals where reputed translators from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Germany read out fragments from their translations done from Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Georgian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish,
and Swedish.
Радио Голос России http://rus.ruvr.ru/2013_03_04/V-Peterburge-projdet-mezhdunarodnaja-konferencija-perevodchikov/
ИТАР-ТАСС http://spb.itar-tass.com/c344/666555.html
Софокл http://www.sofokl.ru/news.php?action=view&id=350
БАЛТИНФО http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/03/03/V-Peterburge-soberutsya-veduschie-perevodchiki-Evropy-339933
Северная звезда http://www.nstar-spb.ru/articles/article_5643.html
Северная звезда http://www.nstar-spb.ru/articles/article_5644.html
Регнум http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1631822.html
Русский век http://ruvek.ru/?module=news&action=view&id=10881
Русский мир http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/ru/news/common/news37762.html
С-Петербургский дневник http://www.spbdnevnik.ru/news/2013-03-04/sankt-peterburgskaya-vysshaya-shkola-perevoda-otmechaeyt-pyatiletiey/
ЗАКС http://www.assembly.spb.ru/welcome/show/633200002/18747
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