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CTER 2025: Deadline extended (30.11.24)

This image contains modified graphics from freepics.comFollowing multiple requests from those who did not manage to submit their abstracts in October, we have extended the deadline for abstract submission to 30 November 2024. We look forward to meeting you at the 4th CTER Congress on 17-18 March 2025 in Kraków, Poland. See the Congress website for more details.

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St Jerome’s Symposium 2024 (30.09.2024, 15:00)

We kindly invite you to St Jerome’s Symposium, to be held online on September 30, 2024 at 15.00-16.30 (CEST, UTC +2).

St Jerome’s Symposium 2024 is an opportunity to celebrate International Translation Day and hold a CTER get-together ahead of the forthcoming academic year. Although the symposium is primarily addressed to members of the Consortium for Translation Education Research (CTER), we are happy to extend our invitation to anyone interested in participating.

Traditionally, the meeting will be informal in nature, but a provisional schedule is provided below for orientation.

  1. Welcome
  2. CTER update
    – forthcoming events (CTER 2025)
    – CTER networking and contributions
    – new initiatives (to be announced)
  3. Where sisters meet: A sneak peek at APTIS
    (The Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting , UK and Ireland)
    – Special guest: Prof. Lucia Pintado Gutierrez (President of APTIS)
    – Special guest: Prof. JC Penet (former President of APTIS)
  4. Research showcase
  5. Challenges, issues and ideas for the forthcoming academic year
  6. Friendly chat and AOB

 Look out for possible updates

The registration form is available here (deadline expires on Sep 26th, 23:45 CEST, UTC +2). After that date, registered participants will be emailed the link to the MS Teams meeting.

Roundtable debate (online): The present and future of translator education research 22.01.2024

Panellists:

Oleksandr Bondarenko (Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical
University in Kiev)
Mariusz Marczak
(Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Gary Massey
(Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
Olga Mastela
(Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Paulina Pietrzak
(University of Łódź)
Maria Piotrowska
(Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

Date: 14.30-16.00 CET, 22nd January, 2024

REGISTRATION link and QR code:

St Jerome’s Symposium 2023

We kindly invite you to St Jerome’s Symposium, to be held on September 29, 2023 at 14.30-18.00 (CEST, UTC +2). Before you register, please look at what you are up to.

Part I

  • 14.30 Symposium opening, networking and coffee to start
  • 15.00 – 16.00
  1. Open lecture: Aleksander Gomola “St. Jerome: a man behind a myth”
  2. Discussion

Part II

  • 16.00 – 16.30
  1. Looking back: “Ten years of CTER” by Maria Piotrowska
  2. Looking forward: “TER Platform – a new initiative” by Mariusz Marczak
  • 16.30 – 18.00 Roundtable discussion: “Educating translators and interpreters, educating trainers: winds of change” (key themes: dispersion of competences, AI and technologies, teachers and upskilling, academia and industry)

Hybrid mode

Onsite

Collegium Paderevianum, Jagiellonian University

al. Mickiewicza 9a, room 2

31-120 Kraków, Poland

Online

Details to be announced in due course.

Open lecture by Prof. Gary Massey: 16.03.2023

The Chair for Translation Studies and the research platform Translator – Educator – Research (TER), POB Heritage UJ, kindly invite you to an open lecture entitled The hard thing about soft skills: Educating for today’s language industry, to be delivered by Prof. Gary Massey from Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) on 16 March 2023 at 12.00-13.30 (CET) at Auditorium Maximum in Kraków (ul. Krupnicza 33, sala seminaryjna A).

 

CTER Assessment Literacy Workshop 2022

The Consortium for Translation Education Research (CTER) in association with the University of Westminster in London, England and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland are pleased to announce a jointly organised workshop on assessment literacy for translator trainers and translators under the name of the CTER Assessment Literacy Workshop 2022,  to be held on 3rd-4th November, 2022 in Kraków, Poland. The workshop sessions will be led by Elsa Barros and Juliet Vine from the University of Westminster.

For more information on the event and registration consult the workshop site.