Happy International Translation Day 2018!!

CONGRATULATIONS… you’re amazing… celebrate it!!

#ITD2018

Hold a lecture, run a networking event, throw a party, have coffee with a colleague, write a poem, call a friend, tweet up a storm, Instagram it all … Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, celebrate International Translation Day. You do amazing work, aren’t intimidated by threats of being replaced by machines and understand that translators are the key to successful global communications and vital to nurturing cultural heritage and prosperity. It’s our day, and it’s a great time to be a linguist, so have a great time. Don’t let it slip by while you’re at your desk, get out and celebrate together!

CUBA 2020. It’s here!  ACTI’s brilliant logo design for XXII FIT WORLD CONGRESS, featuring the Cuban colors and star, to symbolise the natural beauty and history of the host country. There’s lots to look forward to on 3 – 5 December 2020, so remember to SAVE THE DATE!

FIT Council held it’s annual meeting in Astrakhan Russia, at the kind invitation of UTR.  Council was pleased to remember UTR founding member and honorary president, Leonid Gurevich, who passed away last February. Council and guests enjoyed Russian hospitality, including a meeting with Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, and a tour of the Astrakhan State University with Rector, Konstantin Markelov and FIT Council Member Dr. Olga Egorova.

FIT President, Kevin Quirk, has travelled to meet as many members as possible since the start of the mandate.

He has attended the Translating Europe Forum, met with DGT, Brussels, Belgium; General Meeting of FIT Europe, Barcelona; OTTIAQ’s 25th Celebration, Montreal, Canada; International Symposium on Literary Translation, Havana, Cuba; TAC Annual Conference, Beijing, China; FIT Council meeting in Astrakhan, Russia, Round table discussion on Protecting Linguists in High-Risk Areas, United Nations, New York, USA; Meeting with PEM, Thessaloniki Book Fair, Greece; AGM and signing of Memorandum of Understanding with CEATL, Copenhagen, Denmark; ASETRAD’s 15th Anniversary, Zaragoza, Spain; FIT International Legal Forum, Bonn, Germany.

He will be celebrating ITD with SATI in South Africa for their annual conference.

Literary Translation in the AI Era. In June, KATI, the Korean Association of Translators and Interpreters hosted a forum at HUFS, Seoul Korea. For details of our next event in South Korea, the Ninth Asia Pacific Translation and interpreting Forum (APTIF9), visit the website.

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