NEaT hosts and participates in seminars, conferences and workshops several times per year to support editors and translators in their work. All upcoming events are posted under RECENT POSTS as they are scheduled. On any page, scroll down to Recent Posts.
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Information about NEaT events from 2014 to 2021:
NEaT’s annual Christmas party was held on 3 December 2021 at 6 pm at Säästopankinranta 4 C 21 and online.
On 16 November 2021, Kenneth Quek was to guide us on a course reviewing the tech tools we use in editing and translating.
A discussion on working in Sweden was had in our online NEaTup on Tuesday 9 November 2021.
A debate on whose style matters in academic editing was had on Thursday 23 September 2021.
The annual NEaT picnic was held in surprising sunshine on 21 August 2021.
NEaT words of the year/Uudissanat 2021 was held online on Tuesday, 8 June 2021 at 18.00. Read more here.
The English as a Lingua Nordica seminar An English of our own was held on 14 April 2021 at 16:00–19:00.
A NEaTup social event was held 28 January 2021 online with Zoom.
Peer approaches to editing, a workshop: “Show me yours, and I’ll show you mine”. Wednesday 10 March 2021 16.00–18.00 (members only). Read more here.
NEaT’s Annual General Meeting was held 20 April 2021 online in Helsinki.
2020
NEaT’s annual Christmas Party was had on 5 December 2020. Read more here.
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Punctuation Points, a NEaT round table on using punctuation, was held on Thursday 22 October online.
The annual NEaT picnic was held on 8 August at 2 pm.
The sixth annual English Today was held on 13 March, with an exciting programme about the clarity of language.
The NEaT event in Joensuu, Making a Living out of Language, has been postponed until the autumn.
We regret to announce that the two events with Tess Whitty scheduled for 8 April have been cancelled.
2019
Our annual Christmas Party was held 5 December 2019 at PAM’s premises in Hakaniemi Helsinki.
Practical considerations for editing scientific texts
A seminar discussion on practical considerations when editing scientific texts with statistics. On Monday, 25 November, at Kielikeskus (Helsinki University Language Centre). RSVP by 20 November. More information here.
Business skills were honed at a panel discussion Business skills: What I wish I had known at the beginning on October 21 at FinnBrit. Thank you for attending perhaps the most popular NEaT event so far!
Annual NEaT picnic was on August 17. This year in Seurasaari, Helsinki. More information on the newsletter & social media.
An exciting seminar on May 7: Subtitling seminar with Tiina Kinnunen on May 7 at 5 pm in FinnBrit Society. Price: 10 euros per person. All you ever wanted to know about subtitling and how to create subtitles. Try your hand at it with a seasoned pro who will show you how a subtitler works and let you in on the trade secrets.
NEaT’s Annual General Meeting was held 8 April in Helsinki. More information here.
The 5th English Today seminar was organized at the Finnbrit Language Centre in Helsinki on the 15th of March 2019. More information here. The event receiveed ravishing reviews.
Noun Stacking is often found in scientific and administrative writing, and is particularly common in translations influenced by Finnish grammar. In English texts, however, it is clumsy and often difficult to parse, so they should be avoided whenever possible. Professional language revisor and NEaT board member Kenneth Quek taught a workshop that introduced this phenomenon and offered strategies for dealing with it and creating clear sentence structures. The workshop was aimed specifically at translators who work with English as their target language. The course was open to members of Kieliasiantuntijat and NEaT
Time: Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 6 to 8pm
Place: Kieliasiantuntijat ry offices at Pohjoisesplanadi 21 B in central Helsinki
Course fee: 20€ for Kieliasiantuntijat members. More information: https://kaannosalan-asiantuntijat-kaj-lv.creamailer.fi/survey/answer/ti7grzejeknm5
The course was organised by Nordic Editors and Translators NEaT and Kieliasiantuntijat ry/Language Experts.
2018
Our annual Christmas Party was held at PAM in Hakaniemi on the 5th of December 2018 from 18:00 onwards. More information here.
NEaT was represented at Nordic Translation Industry Forum in Oslo from 21 to 23 November. More information about NTIF18 here.
Panel discussion ‘To Flag or To Correct’ was a seminar for editors at the University of Helsinki 24 October 2018.
Panel discussion on peer post-translation editing was held 19 October at Finnbrit, Helsinki.
NEaT was represented at Scandinavian Language Associations’ Meeting SLAM! in Malmö 15 September (read more here) and at METM18 in Girona from 4 to 6 October (read more here).
Annual picnic was in Suomenlinna 18 August 2018. Read more here.
NEaT was represented at SENSE2018 conference in The Netherlands in June. Read more here.
Peer review workshop was held 31 May 2018 at the University of Helsinki.
Annual General Meeting was held 16 April 2018 at 5 pm at Cafe Roasberg, Helsinki. More information here.
IV English Today seminar, “A Closer Lens on English Professionals” held 16 March 2018 at Finnbrit, read more here.
2017
For summarized information about NEaT’s operation in 2017, see annual review here.
NEaT’s annual Christmas party was held on the 5th of December 2017 in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. Read more here.
Another roundtable, this time on punctuation, was held on November 9, 2017. Taught by Ian Mac Eochagáin and Alisdair McLean, this course discussed the punctuation issues that every editor and translator encounters. More information here.
On the 14th of September 2017, Rebecca von Bonsdorff taught Electronic Resources for Language Professionals. In this course you learn some cutting-edge resources that can be found on the net. We discuss and practise using easily-accessible aids such as corpora, concordances and vocabulary profiles. Whether you work with translating, editing, teaching or writing this is a great opportunity for you to update your working toolbox. Registration and more information here.
Stephen Stalter lectured on Statistics for language professionals at KAJ on August 24, 2017. The course provides the basics of understanding statistics and common statistical models with the goal of supporting the language skills of editors and translators working in English.
NEat’s annual picnic was held on August 19, 2017 on Suomenlinna. Despite the rain, a good number of folks turned out for food and drinks at Suomenlinnan Panimo. Read more about the event here.
NEaT’s annual general meeting 2017 was on April 13 at 5 pm at the Finnbrit Society (Fredrikinkatu 20 A 9).
Workshop on British English vs. American English: Untangling the Differences was held on March 29, 2017 at 5 pm at the Finnbrit Language Centre. Read more about the event here.
English Today III: Keeping up your English was held on March 10, 2017 at the Finnbrit Language Centre. Read more about the event here.
2016
NEaT Christmas Party 2016 and our first Translation Slam was held on 5 December at 5 pm at PAM in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. Read invitation here.
The NEaT education committee has been planning a series of grammar/style roundtables. The first, Style Discussion 1, was on Friday, October 7, 2016 at 5 pm. Rebecca von Bonsdorff lead the discussion with the help of Alice Lehtinen and Terese Forster. This session covered the serial comma, singular they and the passive voice. We look forward to hearing your viewpoint! Read summary here.
We did a workshop at the KAJ offices on the 15th of September 2016 at 5 pm. Julie Uusinarkaus presented examples of writing a personal style guide for your own use or for a specific client. Read more on the KAJ site here.
The annual NEaT Picnic took place in Suomenlinna on Saturday, August 20, 2016. We had great weather and atmosphere.
NEaT and Finnbrit co-hosted second English Today seminar at Finnbrit premises on 11 March. You can see the program here.
AGM was held on 5 April 2016. See AGM invitation here.
We were pleased to host a special lecture about Business English at Arkadia International Bookshop on 20 April. See event post here.
2015
Our Christmas party was held on 3 December 2015 in Helsinki. More information in the event post here.
NEaT was presented by board members Julie Uusinarkaus and Virve Juhola to communication professionals at ProCom ry’s International Communications Group on 18 August 2015. This is a networking and training event for ProCom members only. More information about ProCom at http://procom.fi/
Arranged together with KAJ, Noun Stacking Course for Professional Editors and Translators took place on 7 September from 4 to 7 pm at KAJ offices in Pasila. For KAJ and NEaT members only. Lectured by NEaT member Stephen Stalter. More information: http://www.kaj.fi/ajankohtaista/tapahtumat_ja_koulutukset/noun_stacking_course_for_professional_editors_and_translators.42.html
NEaT and Finnbrit co-hosted an English Today seminar at Finnbrit premises on 18 September. More information about the event here. More about Finnbrit: http://www.finnbrit.fi/
NEaT was presented among SKTL, KAJ and other organizations at International Translation Day on Friday 2 October in Turku.
Demanding Quality was a panel discussion held at Arkadia International Bookshop on 22 October 2015. Description of the event here.
NEat was presented at the METMeeting (METM15) conference in Coimbra, Portugal, from 29 to 31 October 2015. Stephen Stalter talked about oral expression coaching; Julie Uusinarkaus and Virve Juhola presented the origins of NEaT for a another program thread. For more information: http://www.metmeetings.org/en/preliminary-program:722
NEaT’s Annual General Meeting 2015 was held on Tuesday 21 April 2015 starting at 17:00 at the ‘kabinetti’ space of Pub Leijuva Lahna on Eerikinkatu, Helsinki. After AGM, we joined their weekly pub quiz in Finnish and do our own quiz in English. Please see invitation here.
