Producing and Disseminating Multilingual Information about COVID-19 in Finland: Best Practices and Challenges
Thursday 20 October 2022, 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern European Time (3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Western European Time)
In this webinar, we discuss the challenges and best practices in relation to the production and dissemination of COVID-19-related multilingual information in Finland. An additional goal is to share ideas and insights with researchers and practitioners from other countries and discuss the challenges related to doing research in this area.
Program:
- Welcome (Prof. Lieven Buysse, KU Leuven, ENPSIT)
- Introduction (Assoc. Prof. Simo Määttä)
- Results of the project “Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19” (Dr. Tuija Kinnunen, Dr. Svetlana Probirskaja, Dr. Päivi Kuusi)
- General discussion moderated by Simo Määttä
This webinar is organized by the Translation Studies Research Community at the University of Helsinki (TRAST) in cooperation with the European Network for Public Service Interpreting and Translation (ENPSIT). The seminar is open to anyone interested in multilingual communication in migration settings, crisis translation, and related areas. We warmly welcome you to hear about the project and join the discussion!
Please join the webinar through this link: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67903525736?pwd=NWJHUkwxUkc5MHBEYTRFM0JDdkR1Zz09
Meeting ID: 679 0352 5736
Passcode: 132261111
More information about the “Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19” project is available on this website: https://crisistranslation.tlu.ee/.