The boom of new technologies has left no stone in the translation industry unturned, with the fields of legal translation and court interpreting being no exception. A new element is becoming a part of interpreting of police interviews or court proceedings, interpreting through video conference. When describing the advantages of software for Computer Aided Translation, legal texts, such as contracts or judgments, are very often stated as ideal texts to enjoy the benefits of TM software due to their fixed structure and standard phrases.
However, is the market prepared for such a change? Are all court, or certified interpreters and translators familiar with these possibilities? What can be done to improve the situation? And what about the clients?
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Conference opening:
- Jiří POSPÍŠIL - Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic
- Jan MICHAL - Head of the European Commission Representation in the Czech Republic
- Liese KATSCHINKA – President of EULITA
- Eva GORGOLOVÁ - President of KST CR
- Jan PETROV - Director of the Judicial Academy
- Stanislav RUBÁŠ - Director of the Institute of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague
- Milena HORÁLKOVÁ - Department of Languages of the Faculty of Law of Charles University, Member of the Supervisory Board of KST CR in Prague
The conference will be moderated by Marie SVOBODOVÁ
Conference venue:
Lecture hall of the Judicial Academy, Hybernská 18, Prague 1
The conference will feature the following speakers:
- PhDr. Milena HORÁLKOVÁ, Assistant professor at the Department of Languages of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, Member of the Supervisory Board of KST ČR
- Dipl. dolm. Liese KATSCHINKA, President of EULITA and Vice-president of the Austrian Association of Certified Court Interpreters ÖVGD
- PhDr. Pavel KRÁL, Head of Translation & Interpreting Section, Department of English and American Studies, Philosophical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc
- PhDr. Tomáš SVOBODA, Ph.D., Guarantor of the Translating & Interpreting programme for German, Institute of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague
- RNDr. Kiril RIBAROV, Ph.D., Research fellow at Charles University, Winner of the IBM award the the field of the development of language technology, HR Manager at ČEZ
- Petr SCHNEPP, Sales and operations director at STAR Czech s.r.o.
- László JANKOVICS, Managing Director at STAR Czech s.r.o.
- Petr ADÁMEK, Freelance translator and author of the EU Law Translation software
- Prof. PhDr. Ivana ČEŇKOVÁ, Csc., Professor of Translation Studies, Vice-dean of Foreign Affairs of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
- Ing. Michael POSPÍŠIL, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic
- JUDr. Marek FRYŠTÁK, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno
- PhDr. Zuzana STAŠOVÁ, President of the Association of Conference Interpreters in the Czech Republic (ASKOT)
- Maya DE WIT, President of EFSLI and Member of the Executive Committee of EULITA
- Mgr. Naďa DINGOVÁ, President of the Czech Chamber of Sign Language Interpreters ČKTZJ
- Mag. Christine SPRINGER, President of the Austrian Association of Certified Court Interpreters ÖVGD
- Dr. Renate RECK, Representative of the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators BDÜ, Special Adviser for the issues related to sworn translators and interpreters in Germany
- Kasia BERESFORD, Institute of Translation & Interpreting's representative for EULITA affairs
- Nick ROSENTHAL, Chair of the ITI Council, United Kingdom
- PhDr. Ilona ŠPRCOVÁ, Member of the Board of KST ČR
- Zofia RYBIŃSKA, Vice-President of EULITA and Co-Chair of the FIT Committee for Legal Interpreting and Translation, Vice President of the Polish Society of Sworn and Specialized Translators TEPIS
- Fabrizio GALLAI, Department member for Legal interpretation and Police Interpreting at School of Languages at University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Simultaneous interpreting from/to English, French and Czech will be provided.
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