Invitation to Annual General Meeting 2016

Dear NEaT Members and those interested to join the association:

Welcome to our second annual general meeting as a registered organization! It will be held 5 April 2016 at Klaavuntie 11 in Puotila, Helsinki at 17:00. The meeting will conduct the standard business specified in Article 12 of our Constitution. The agenda from Article 12 is presented at the end of this email. We will verify the names of the new board before the meeting; however, volunteers are welcome at any time, so please contact me if you wish to volunteer.

The venue is the famous whiskey and brew pub, Pikkulintu, and we’ll get through our business and organize an informal tasting and discussion of the specialty beer that is available at the pub.

The pub is a short walk from the Puotila metro station. Take the eastern exit from the metro, follow the walkway until you get to the small shopping center on the right. If you turn right into the shopping center, you’ll see it on your left. We’re in the back room.

Pikkulintu
Cabinet meeting room
Klaavuntie 11, Puotila
Tuesday, 5 April
17:00

Welcome!
Julie Uusinarkaus

Chair

Photo courtesy on pikkulintu.fi

Nordic Editors and Translators

Vuosikokous
Yhdistyksen vuosikokouksessa käsitellään seuraavat asiat:
1. kokouksen avaus
2. valitaan kokouksen puheenjohtaja, sihteeri, kaksi
pöytäkirjantarkastajaa ja tarvittaessa kaksi ääntenlaskijaa
3. todetaan kokouksen laillisuus ja päätösvaltaisuus
4. hyväksytään kokouksen työjärjestys
5. esitetään tilinpäätös, vuosikertomus ja tilintarkastajan lausunto
6. päätetään tilinpäätöksen vahvistamisesta ja vastuuvapauden
myöntämisestä hallitukselle ja muille vastuuvelvollisille
7. vahvistetaan toimintasuunnitelma, tulo- ja menoarvio sekä liittymisja
jäsenmaksun suuruus
8. valitaan hallituksen puheenjohtaja ja muut jäsenet ja varajäsenet
9. valitaan yksi tilintarkastaja ja yksi varatilintarkastaja.
Varatilintarkastajaa ei valita, jos tilintarkastajana toimii tilitoimisto
tai muu tilintarkastajayhteisö
10. käsitellään muut kokouskutsussa mainitut asiat

The Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Association shall consider the
following business:
1. opening of the meeting
2. election of a chairman, a secretary, two individuals to scrutinise
the minutes and two individuals to count the votes at the meeting
where necessary
3. verification that the meeting is lawful and that those present form
a quorum
4. approval of the agenda for the meeting
5. presentation of the financial statements, the annual report and the
auditor’s opinion
6. decision to confirm the financial statements and discharge the
Board and other accountable persons from liability
7. confirmation of the operating plan, the budget and the affiliation
and membership subscription
8. election of the Chairman and other members and deputy members of
the Board for the following year
9. election of one auditor and one deputy auditor. No deputy auditor
shall be elected if an accounting firm or other auditing corporation
serves as auditor
10. consideration of any other business specified in the invitation to
the meeting.

English Today II

tumblr_o1gtx1mfC31slhhf0o1_1280

English Today: The Successful Language Professional

Nordic Editors and Translators and the Finnbrit Society are pleased to present the second annual English Today seminar on March 11 from 3 to 7 pm. This year’s English Today is all about helping the language professional succeed. The main part of the programme is an intensive seminar on the competencies a successful language professional needs. Afterwards, our main speaker, well-known translator Eva Buchwald, will inspire us with her experiences in her talk entitled “Dramatic License: Some Aspects of Translating Finnish Plays into English”. In the evening, we invite you to join us for dinner at The Cock, where you can network with other professionals and share your own success story.

Our featured speaker is Dr Eva Buchwald. Eva Buchwald studied at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London. She is Chief Dramaturg at the Finnish National Theatre, where her role includes developing new Finnish writing and seeking international work for the programme. Eva also adapts work for the stage, most recently Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Eva has translated over twenty Finnish plays into English. Many of these, such as Juha Jokela’s Fundamentalist, Sirkku Peltola’s Finnhorse and Sofi Oksanen’s Purge, have enjoyed readings or productions in the UK and the US.

The price is 30 euros for NEaT and Finnbrit members, and 40 euros for non-members. The price includes all four talks and light refreshments during the break. Dinner at The Cock should be paid separately.

NEaT, or Nordic Editors and Translators, is a local organization that supports and promotes editors, translators and other language professionals in the Nordic countries.

English Today
March 11
15:00–19:00
30 euros for NEaT and Finnbrit members, 40 euros for non-members

For access to the remote feed, please write to info@nordicedit.fi. The fee for access is 10 euros.

Please RSVP by 29 February, and indicate whether you would like to join us afterward at The Cock to meet other professionals and discuss the presentations. Sign up early, as seating is limited. Please register on a separate form for each attendee.

RSVP here.

Our success-in-business seminar speakers:

Liisa Laakso-Tammisto: Being Competitive While Resisting Dismal Pricing

Liisa Laakso Tammisto (M.Sc. Econ.) graduated from the Helsinki School of Economics in 1980, majoring in the English language. She has since added Italian to her language offering. She is an authorized translator in both languages. She works as a translator, conference interpreter, and court interpreter through her own company Käännöstoimisto IDE Oy. She gives lectures on authorized translation at the University of Helsinki and represents the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters (SKTL).

Virve Juhola: Starting your own Business as a Language Specialist

Virve Juhola (M.A.) graduated from the University of Turku in 1995, majoring in translation studies in English. Since 2012, she has worked as a language and communications specialist and translator in both Finnish and English and from Swedish through her own company Cape Context Oy. She is specialized in technology and commerce, having contracts with translation and advertising agencies and providing content and consultancy directly to Finnish brands and organizations. She was one of the founding members of Nordic Editors and Translators and is its first secretary of the board.

Kaija Pöysti: Language and Business: Building a Business from Language and the Role of Language in Business

Kaija Pöysti (M.Sc.) graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1985 majoring in Operations Research. She has worked for 30+ years as a successful entrepreneur and consultant, a “business angel”, growing companies and creating innovative and systematic organizations and focusing on Industrial Internet, digitalization, and collaborative ways of working. She won the National Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1996.

Lecture: English matters in the multilingual reality of multinational companies

What English is the “right” English to use for business talk? What about for corporate texts? Does it differ from company to company?

Nordic Editors and Translators is pleased to invite you to a special lecture on 20 April following the theme English in Business & Business in English: English matters in the multilingual reality of multinational companies. Anne Kankaanranta of the Aalto University School of Business will present her research on English as a business lingua franca and ‘corporate language’.  Her findings and knowledge of how business English is used in practice will be valuable to anyone working with business-related texts.

A three euro donation for the use of the bookshop space is requested.

Time: 6:00 pm
Date: 20 April 2016
Place: Arkadia International Bookshop, Nervanderinkatu 11

Abstract:

In multinational companies, English may have an official status as a/the corporate language or it may represent a pragmatic choice among multilingual employees with no other shared language. Although practitioners typically talk about ‘English’ in both cases, researchers in international business communication make a distinction between the two. On the one hand, English is conceptualized as a native language (ENL) and on the other, as a shared resource used by speakers of different mother tongues (BELF; English as business lingua franca). In my talk, I’ll be addressing two questions: what exactly does this dual role of English entail and what kind of English ‘matters’?

BIO

Anne Kankaanranta, PhD, is Senior University Lecturer, Organizational Communication, Department of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business. On the undergraduate level, her teaching focuses on English business communication skills and on the graduate level, she teaches in the Master’s Program in Corporate Communication. Her research interests include the concept of English as business lingua franca (BELF), ‘corporate language’ and various aspects of global corporate communication. She has published in, e.g., English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Business Communication, and Public Relations Review. As a visiting scholar/lecturer, she has worked in, e.g., Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton (UK); Aarhus University (Denmark) and University of Michigan (USA).

Christmas party on 3rd December!

Welcome to our Christmas celebration!

We are pleased to announce that Diana Tullberg will be our main speaker at our Christmas celebration this year. Diana was the founder and owner of the English Centre translating and teaching agency for three decades and a pioneer of English language services in Finland. Many of us have taken courses from her and worked for her, and she has helped to shape the landscape of English language services in Helsinki.

The program will start with Diana’s speech, and then we will have dinner together, catered by the board. Dinner and the lecture will be free for members and 10 euros for non-members. However, if you would like something to drink and to toast with, please bring your own wine, champagne, glögi, beer, soda or other beverage.

NEaT Christmas party
December 3 from 5 pm
PAM Office, Säästöpankinranta 4 C 21
RSVP to ken.pk.quek(a)gmail.com.

You can see photos from last year here.