Cork Deaf Drama Group - Spirit of Signs - Dublin 16th May

Cork Deaf Drama Group - Spirit of Signs will perform their hilarious and excellent show "Down through the yEars"

on Saturday 16th May 2009 at 8 pm

in UCD Student Centre - ASTRA Theatre

Tickets now on sale at € 20 each

(Price includes admission to theatre & finger food party afterwards)

Please be advised tickets are limited to 600 and are selling fast.

Book today to avoid disappointment and to to enjoy this fabulous show not to be missed for 1 night only.

How much do you know about the challenges that deaf people have faced throughout history? From cave dwellers to space-travellers, from medieval monks to the Nazi holocaust, we take you on a deaf journey through time. Hilarious and heartbreaking, you will witness history through different eyes…and different ears.

"The Show colourfully depicits the History of the Deaf throughout the years and how mankind has evolved from apes to humanity. An excellent show that will have you laughing all night and some serious bits too - come along to find out more....."

Spirit of Signs – Cork Deaf Drama Group will perform at the
UCD Student Centre Astra Theatre on Saturday 16th May 2009
8 pm
Seating capacity 600
Tickets now on sale at € 20 each – Available from TDC Committee
Finger-Food Party will be held in the Student Bar beside Theatre afterwards (Ticket includes admission to Theatre & Party)

Tickets can be obtained from any Tallaght Deaf Club Committee or contact us directly at SMS / Voice 087-2944338

Regards,

John Paul Monaghan

Hon. Secretary

Tallaght Deaf Club

SMS / Voice : 087-2944338

Email : tallaghtdeafclub@eircom.net

Web : www.tdc.ie

** This show is being jointly supported by Tallaght Deaf Club & Art & Cultural Society of the Deaf **

Translation Research Summer School UK 2009

Translation Research Summer School UK 2009

Date and Venue: 15 - 26 June 2009, Translation Studies Graduate Programme, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh

Details of lectures now available:

http://www.researchschool.org/index.php?module=content&task=view&id=21

The TRANSLATION RESEARCH SUMMER SCHOOL (TRSS), a joint initiative of three British universities, organizes an annual two-week course offering intensive research training in translation and intercultural studies for prospective researchers in the field.

The units collaborating in the Summer School are the Translation Studies Graduate Programme, Schoolof Literatures, Languages and Cultures, at the University of Edinburgh, the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, and the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London (UCL).

2009 Teaching Staff

Mona Baker (University of Manchester), Marilyn Booth (University of Edinburgh), Charlotte Bosseaux(University of Edinburgh), Theo Hermans (University College London), Ian Mason (Heriot-Watt University), Robert Neather (Hong Kong Baptist University), Maeve Olohan (University of Manchester), Bernadette O'Rourke (Heriot-Watt University), Luis Pérez- González (University of Manchester), James St André (University of Manchester), ªebnem Susam-Sarajeva (University of Edinburgh), Esther Tyldesley (University of Edinburgh), Marion Winters (Heriot-Watt University), Svenja Wurm (Heriot-Watt University)

Invited Speaker: Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan)

For more information about the lectures, please consult our 'Syllabus and Organisation' section:

http://www.researchschool.org/index.php?module=content&task=view&id=21

The Summer School is open to suitably qualified students from across the world.

Candidates should normally hold the degree of Master of Arts or equivalent in a relevant subject (typically a humanities subject involving cross- cultural studies), should be proficient in English and should either have started or be actively considering research in translation and/or intercultural studies.

Contact Details: Sharon Deane (S.L.Deane@sms.ed.ac.uk)

Registration: 975 GBP for sponsored students, 680 GBP for self-funded students

Application deadline: 20th March 2009

For more details consult the Translation Research Summer School website athttp://www.researchschool.org/

The TRANSLATION-STUDIES list is archived at:

http://listserv.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TRANSLATION-STUDIES

Mona Baker

Professor of Translation Studies

Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies

School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

University of Manchester Oxford Road

Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

Tel. (direct) +44 (0)161-275-8125

Email: mona.baker@manchester.ac.uk

http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/aboutus/staff/baker/

To join the International Association of Translation & International Studies, click here: http://www.iatis.org/content/membership.php

Studentships in translation, interpreting, and intercultural studies

The University of Manchester was recently awarded one MA and one doctoral studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Block Grants Partnership) for our MA and PhD programmes in translation, interpreting and intercultural studies. These are prestigious studentships offering full UK/EU fees for all years of study and an annual maintenance award of approximately 13,000 pounds (PhD) or 9,000 pounds (MA). Manchester is one of only two universities in the UK to be awarded an AHRC PhD studentship this year in the Interpreting and Translation subject area.

Candidates for the PhD studentship should have achieved or be on track to achieve a Distinction (or comparable) award in their Masters study and should present a cogent and original research proposal.

The MA studentship is for the Professional Preparation Masters scheme and candidates should have achieved or be on track to achieve a First Class (or comparable) award in undergraduate study.

In order to be considered for these studentships, applicants must have received an offer of an MA or PhD place before 1 April - full applications should therefore be submitted to the University as soon as possible using the online application form:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/

The relevant AHRC application form - Professional Preparation Masters (PPM) or Doctoral scheme - must also be submitted by the deadline of 1 April. Forms and further details of these and other funding schemes are available at:

http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/postgraduate/funding/

Please refer to the Notes for Guidance for various restrictions on eligibility and for advice on filling in the forms.

The TRANSLATION-STUDIES list is archived at:

http://listserv.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TRANSLATION-STUDIES

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Watch Your Language!

Watch Your Language!

A one-day conference on the way ahead for BSL/Eng interpreters & CSWs

Friday 3rd April 2009
10am – 4.30pm

City Lit - Covent Garden, London
£125 including buffet lunch

City Lit is hosting an exciting new conference for interpreters and CSWs.

Dr Christopher Stone (ASLI / DCAL) will begin the day with a talk on the theme of Single and multiple skill sets: territories & boundaries of BSL/English interpreters and Communication Support Workers in education and beyond. This will be followed by a look at the future of educational interpreting, by Nicki Harris (Co-chair of ASLI Education Working Group).

You will have the opportunity to improve your skills and knowledge through a variety of morning and afternoon workshops.

Workshops will include: voice-over training – theory and practice; consecutive interpreting; research from DCAL on interpreter aptitude; the use of Deaf interpreters; ethical issues related to educational support; the Association of CSWs; and notetaker training.

Paul Parsons from Signature (CACDP) will explain current developments from the NRCDP (IRP) including the registration of CSWs. There will then be a ‘question time’ to our panel of speakers, where you can get involved in a discussion on the themes covered in the day.


Places are limited, so register now to ensure your place & choice of workshops!


For more information & a registration form, contact City Lit (www.citylit.ac.uk/news/events )
Deaf Education & Learning Support, Keeley Street , Covent Garden, London WC2B 4BA

Email: watchyourlanguage@citylit.ac.uk
020 7492 2719 / 2725 / 2726 (voice);
020 7492 2746/7 (textphone);
020 7492 2745 (fax)

WASLI Newsletters

WASLI is committed to the development of the profession of sign language interpreting worldwide

Become a WASLI member and support WASLI in its commitment to develop the profession of sign language interpreting worldwide - for more information http://www.wasli.org/Membership.htm



Dear Colleagues

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CIRCULATE THIS EMAIL TO COLLEAGUES

It has been some time since the last WASLI Newsletter. We apologise for this. But we now bring you 6 newsletters of the last news and happenings around the world.

From 2009 WASLI Board Member, George Major, will be collating the WASLI newsletters. If you have any news, articles or information that you would like to include in a newsletter, please send this to George at austoceania@wasli.org

The WASLI Calendar of Events has been updated and you can see this by click on this link http://www.wasli.org/Calendar.htm

If you have any sign language interpreting or related events you would like to add to the Calendar please send the details to the WASLI Secretary at secretary@wasli.org

You can also view an introductory video of the WASLI Vice President, Juan Druetta of Argentina - click on http://www.wasli.org/WordFromTheVicePresident.htm

Some volunteers have kindly agreed to translate the newsletters into Spanish and French. Once the translations are received, they will be uploaded to the website and an email will be sent out.



WASLI Newsletters

2008-07

WASLI in Sweden

Sign Language Interpreting in Albania

Link: http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/wasli%20newsletter%202008-07.pdf

2008-08

New Interpreter Association in Kosovo

Sign Language Interpreting in Bavaria

WASLI in Brazil for Inauguration of FEBRAPILS

Newsclips from around the world

Link: http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/wasli%20newsletter%202008-08.pdf

2008-09

WASLI in Australia - ASLIA 2008

New Interpreter Association in India

Upcoming Event: 3rd International Conference on Disability & Rehabilitation - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

WASLI North America Regional Report

Newsclips from around the world

Link: http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/wasli%20newsletter%202008-09.pdf

2008-10

Report from SLIANZ 2008 New Zealand -
"Best Practice - the bridge to Professionalism"

efsli/WASLI Protocol - Joint Signing
efsli 2008 - Voorschoten, Netherlands

Sign Language Interpreting in Israel

Upcoming Events:
Critical Link 2009 - Vancouver BC, Canada
Legal Interpreting Conference, USA

Link: http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/wasli%20newsletter%202008-10.pdf

2008-11

Sign Language Interpreting in Angola

WASLI in Cambodia

Report from the 2nd International Conference of Deaf People in Morocco

Upcoming Event:
Participation for All, Orebro, Sweden Oct 2009

WASLI in Slovakia

Newsbulletin from CKTZJ, Czech Republic

Link: http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/wasli%20newsletter%202008-11.pdf

2008-12

WASLI in Barcelona, Spain, FILSE Congress

WASLI in Gran Canaria, Spain

Upcoming Event:
WFDB 9th Helen Keller World Conference and WFDB 3rd General Assembly - Uganda

WASLI Executive Board meet in London, UK
Link: http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/wasli%20newsletter%202008-12.pdf


BEST WISHES

Zane HEMA
WASLI Secretary
secretary@wasli.org

Become a WASLI member and support WASLI in its commitment to develop the profession of sign language interpreting worldwide - for more information http://www.wasli.org/Membership.htm

Interpreters in Iraq

Hi all

Some great links here - a series of articles about interpreters in Iraq.

http://www.reflexivity.us/blog/archives/2009/01/iraqi-interpret.html


Happy reading and Happy New Year! :-)


Cormac

News from the World of Sign Language, Interpreting and Translation

Dear all,

I hope this email finds you well. As the review editor of SLTI, I am now also responsible for our News section “News from the World of Sign Language, Interpreting and Translation”, at the back of the journal, which we introduced with the September issue. Some of you are already quite industriously sending me information about new services, courses, conferences, recently submitted dissertations etc. in the field of sign language interpreting and translation, sign linguistics, Deaf studies and Deaf culture and Translation and Interpreting Studies. Thank you! It’s much appreciated. Keep it coming…

I will be rounding up the news section for the coming March issue soon, and there is still space for some interesting items, so if you have come across anything recently, particularly if you know of any recently submitted MA or PhD dissertations linked to sign language interpreting/translation, or would like me to include any information on projects etc. that you are involved with, let me know as soon as possible, preferably by the end of the week. Each news item will only be a short paragraph long. Feel free to pass the message on to anybody who might have some interesting news.

I look forward to hearing from you and wish you all a very happy Christmas/New Year break,

Svenja



Svenja Wurm
PhD Student / SLTI Review Editor
Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Scotland

t: +44 131 4514229
e.: sbw1@hw.ac.uk

Introduction to Irish Sign Language

This class will begin on Tuesday 6th January 2009 from 7 – 8.30 pm in Room 4050A, Trinity College, Dublin.

The class will run for ten weeks and the cost is €180.

If you are interested in learning Irish Sign Language please send a cheque, Postal Order or Bank Draft made payable to TCD No. 1 account and post it to


The Secretary
Centre for Deaf Studies
40 Lwr. Drumcondra Rd
Drumcondra
Dublin 9

WASLI Calendar of Events 2009

WASLI Calendar of Events

2009

SUPPORTING DEAF PEOPLE ONLINE CONFERENCE

28-31 Jan 2009

“Deaf Education, Ethics and Professionalism in Interpreting”

Contact: Judith Mole

www.online-conference.net

www.directlearn.co.uk

CANADA, Vancouver

6-8 May 2009

Critical Link Conference 2009

“Meeting the global shift head on: Professional Interpreting as the critical link”

www.criticallink.org/2009conference

US, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1-6 Aug 2009

RID Biennial Conference

www.rid.org

SWEDEN, Stockholm

4 -8 Aug 2009

7^th Deaf History International Conference

www.sdhs.se/dhi2009

TAIWAN, Taipei

The 21^st Summer Deaflympics 2009

5-15 Sept 2009

http://www.2009deaflympics.org/

ESTONIA, Tallinn

‘efsli’ Conference 2009

“Sound mind in sound hands”

18-20 Sept 2009

www.evkty.ee/eng_efsli2009/index.html

UKRAINE, Kiev

23-25 Sept 2009

5^th International Deaf Clownery Festival

Email: chepchina@bigmir.net

SWEDEN, Orebro

14-16 Oct 2009

PARTICIPATION FOR ALL

Opportunities & Supporting Technology

www.partforall.se

UGANDA, Kampala

22-27 Oct 2009

World Federation of the DeafBlind (WFDB) 9^th Helen Keller World Conference

“Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities – Changing the lives of persons with deafblindness”

www.wfdb.org

AUSTRALIA, Brisbane

27-30 October 2009

4^th World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness

“A life to be lived”

www.mhd2009.org

Please let us know what events are happening in your country that will be of interest to sign language interpreters. Send details to the WASLI Secretary at secretary@wasli.org

Adjournment Debate, Dail Eireann, Thursday 27 November 2008

Deputy Joe Costello: This matter aims to ensure the important Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College does not lose the minimal education grant it has at present. We are concerned that yet another institution dealing with a vulnerable minority is targeted by cuts in education. The Centre for Deaf Studies is based in Trinity College and funded by the HEA. It is concerned that its funding for 2009 will be cut. It already operates on a shoestring budget of €440,000 and it cannot afford any cutbacks. It had to locate most of its activities in Drumcondra because it must pay rent in Trinity College and most of its staff now works in Drumcondra. This is a difficult situation.

For more on this go to http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20081127.xml&Node=H17-2#H17-2