Russian in a global context and international organizations

 

Italy-Russia bilateral year of education


 

 

ITALY-RUSSIA BILATERAL YEAR OF EDUCATION  

International Forum

 

RUSSIAN IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT 

AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

 

   Academic Programme 29-30 September 2016

                                                    Rome, Italy

 

 

Organizers:

Graduate School of Interpreting and Translation, Lomonosov State University of Moscow Russia

Graduate School of Interpreters and Translators ESIT New Sorbonne University Paris 3 France

Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma UNINT Russian Studies Center Italy

The forum is held with the support of:

Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the Rome-based UN Agencies

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Pushkin State Russian Language Institute

St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) Switzerland

European Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies EURISPES Italy

And hosted by:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO   

International University of Rome UNINT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russian in a Global Context and International Organizations  

The forum will include presentations and discussions on the following topics:

 

1. Russian as a vehicle for international communication

•       International status of Russian

•       Russian as a language of international organizations

•       Multilingualism and information exchange in international communication

•       Russian as a lingua franca of the Eurasian cultural area

•       Russian as the language of diplomacy and “soft power” in a global context

•       Culture of Russia’s peoples in the global humanist community and the polylogue of cultures

 

                 2. Translation in professional communications

•       Role of translation in the multilingual and multicultural context of international organizations

•       Problems of translation in a multilingual environment and the principle of equality among languages

•       Translation and the polylogue of cultures

•       Translation in professional communication

•       Interpretation and translation

•       Creation and functioning of multilingual terminology portals (glossaries and databases)

•       Traditional and electronic dictionaries and search engines

•       Translation of specialist publications

•       Russian-language versions of portals and websites in international organizations

•       Russian information products in an international context

 

3. Profile of the language professional

•       Interpreter and translator professional competency model

•       Professional profile of the interpreter and translator

•       Developing competency in language professionals

•       Translation subjects: characteristics of specialist text translation

•       Written translation, consecutive and simultaneous interpretation

•       Information technology tools for language professionals

•       Modern approaches, principles and methods for teaching professional interpretation and translation

•       Methodology in training interpretation and translation teachers

•       Continuing education seminars for interpretation and translation teachers

 

4. Russian language teaching in global professional communication

•       New approaches to teaching Russian as a foreign language: methods and technologies, textbooks and teaching aids, programmes and planning, monitoring and testing

•       Enhancing motivation for Russian acquisition in international communication

•       Developing professional communicative competence in a multilingual and multicultural context

•       Experiences of creating specialist textbooks and teaching aids

•       Continuing education for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in international organizations

•       Interaction between languages and cultures in cross-language communication

•       Cross-language communication issues in international professional communication

 

 

Program – Russian in a global context and international organizations

 

 

The working languages of the forum are Russian and English (simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the plenary session).

 

Information on the forum can be found on the official website of the;

 

Graduate School of Interpreting and Translation, Lomonosov State University of Moscow  http://esti.msu.ru/pages/science/conf/.

 

International Association of Conference Interpreters AIIC

http://aiic.net/events/304/russian-in-a-global-context-and-international-organizations-28-sep-2016

 

Pushkin Institute

http://pushkininstitute.ru/

 http://pushkininstitute.ru/meetings/407

 

Moscow State University

http://esti.msu.ru/pages/science/conf/conf15_288.htm

 

St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

http://scit.herzen.spb.ru

http://scit.herzen.spb.ru/en/

 

http://scit.herzen.spb.ru/en/news/konferentsiya-russkij-yazyk-v-mirovom-kontekste-i-mezhdunarodnyh-organizatsiyah/

 

http://scit.herzen.spb.ru/news/konferentsiya-russkij-yazyk-v-mirovom-kontekste-i-mezhdunarodnyh-organizatsiyah/

 

 

 

 

 

Contact in Rome: Natalia Fefelova, PhD in Philology,

Russian Programme Coordinator

fefelova@list.ru tel. +39 349 668 6803

 

 

 

 

 

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