2012 workshop season

 
Date Time Title and description Venue Fee and registration
2 March 17:00 - 20:00 MET medley: talks, tasks and open discussions

Talks include an introduction to the ‘grammar pathway’ project, a preliminary assessment of MET’s 2011 Sea of Words working group experience with the literary texts of young Mediterranean authors, and a look at one translation group’s cooperative use of work space.		 Centre Cívic Pati Llimona, Barcelona  No charge, but registration is required. Places limited
12 March 17:00 - 20:00 Exploring issues in editing literature for translators and authors: the Sea of Words project, working groups (1)

Starting activities in a new, expanded version of this cooperative author- and translator-editing project, led by this year’s working group facilitators		 APTIC headquarters, Barcelona MET members only, no charge
3 May 17:00 - 20:00 An introduction to editing non-native English for application to different types of text

The first step in a two-part series by Joy Burrough-Boenisch, the Netherlands		 IEMed, 
Barcelona		 €30
18 May 17:00 - 20:00 Exploring issues in editing literature for translators and authors: the Sea of Words project, theory and practice (2)

Second ‘theory and discussion’ meeting for the working groups—sharing of group progress and a focus on translation theory and what writing process theory means to translators		 Centre Cívic Pati Llimona  MET members only, no charge
24 May 17:00 - 20:00 Grammar pathway: minisessions 1 and 2

MET’s knowledge pathway—set out on 2 March—will start out with two sessions on grammar issues that lead to problems in translated texts or in prose by writers for whom English is an additional language. Each minisession will be short, to the point, and include brief tasks for discussion.		 IEMed €24
26 May 9:30 - 18:00 Style Matters

A full-day workshop on better writing in translation by Chris Durban, Paris, and Ros Schwartz, London		 Hotel Evenia Rosselló, 
Barcelona		 See separate table