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  From 4–6 September 2025, delegates from around the globe will convene for three days filled with presentations, engaging panels, stimulating discussions, and unparalleled networking opportunities based around the Congress theme Mastering the Machine: shaping an intelligent future. This congress will be unlike any other. It will be hosted at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialised

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ITD 2024 theme and 2025 Congress venue announced

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FIT Council is pleased to share this year’s theme for International Translation Day (ITD): Translation, an art worth protecting. Inspired by issues surrounding copyright, this year’s theme embraces the recognition of translations as original creative works in their own right, owed the benefit of copyright protection under the Berne Convention. As the creators of derivative

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Promoting AV translation and accessibility: the work of FIT’s AVT committee

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FIT’s Audiovisual Translation Standing Committee, composed of Tiina Tuominen (SKTL, Finland), Elena Aleksandrova (UTR, Russia), and myself, is dedicated to advancing the field of audiovisual translation (AVT) through collaboration, education, and advocacy. Our recent activities, including survey analysis and roundtable discussions, have focused on addressing the pressing issues in our field and fostering a global

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FIT Council meets in Kuala Lumpur and launches FIT Asia

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Translators, interpreters, and terminologists play a key role in helping to build crucial connections across the Asia–Pacific region, and FIT Council reinforced its commitment to the region at its annual Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur, which was graciously hosted by the Malaysian Translators Association (MTA) and coincided with the 2024 FIT–MTA International Forum and the launch of FIT Asia, FIT’s newest Regional Centre.

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Indigenous language translation and climate change: negotiating displacement and loss

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On 25 November 2023, in this International Decade of Indigenous Languages, the FIT Indigenous Languages Standing Committee hosted a panel discussion to highlight the critical loss of the world’s indigenous languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalise, and celebrate them. The intercultural event brought together speakers from Africa, Arctic Russia, and Canada in a conversation on

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Standing committees and task forces hard at work

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A considerable amount of FIT’s work is carried out by individual standing committees and task forces (SCTFs). They cover a broad range of subject areas, such as the internal affairs of FIT; the day-to-day work of translators, interpreters, and terminologists; matters relevant to association boards; and global developments in other sectors that are relevant to

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Association presidents discuss AI impacts

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Advances in the world of AI move fast. In response, on 29 May 2023, presidents of FIT member associations had an initial meeting organised by Max de Brouwer of the Chambre belge des traducteurs et interprètes (CBTI-BKVT) to discuss recent developments and how associations could and should respond. While attendees’ viewpoints ranged, they generally agreed that, with

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