19 January 2018 – The General Assembly, held on 19 January 2018, admitted Reneé Davies, Vinka Komesar Rajković, Dragana Budanko and Lea Kovacs into regular membership of the Society, and Katarina Bačić as a pre-candidate. Congratulations to all of them! We are eagerly waiting for their input into HDKP’s activities. The members have received the…
On Saturday, 30 September 2017, the Croatian Society of Conference Interpreters celebrated the International Translation Day with a get-together of its members and precandidates. The informal gathering was an excellent occasion to meet up with colleagues whom we don’t see that often, and to discuss topics that are not dealt with at our regular meetings…
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our colleague, one of the founders of our Society and its first president, Janko Paravić. Janko was one of the doyens of conference interpreting in Croatia, a role model for many generations of interpreters, whose interpreting skills, erudition, professional demeanour and openness, and the…
15 July 2017 – The Training and Projects Committee of the Croatian Society of Conference Interpreters organized yet another one-day voice coaching workshop for conference interpreters in cooperation with Gabrijela Kišiček from the Phonetics Department of the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb and Davor Stanković, voice trainer from HRT, the Croatian public broadcasting company.
Members of the HDKP, supported logistically by the University of Pula, and the Association of Court Interpreters and Translators from Rijeka and Split, made presentations entitled „Conference Interpreting in Croatia – challenges and opportunities“, for students of language, translation and interpretation courses and interested professionals in Pula, Rijeka and Split.
13 February 2017 – During an informal get-together of HDKP members in Strasbourg, our new members Sanja Lokner i Maja Šimleša as well as a pre-candidate Bruno Štefić signed the HDKP Code of Professional Conduct, thus completing the procedure of their accession to the Society.
3 February 2017 – The HDKP held its annual General Assembly and elections on 3 February 2017. Tamara Levak Potrebica was elected as President, Kristina Kruhak as Vice President, Ivanka Rajh continues to be our Secretary, and Elvira Mulić was elected as Treasurer. The Assembly voted unanimously in favour of awarding honorary membership in the…
26 January 2017 – Ivanka Rajh, HDKP’s Secretary, and Sandra Breznički Ucović, member of the Committee for Admission of New Members and Mentorship System, paid a visit to the Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and spoke to students of translation and interpretation at the Department of the English Language and Literature. They presented…
21 October 2016 – HDKP organized a lecture entitled “Using Social Networks for Promotional Purposes (Facebook and LinkedIn)”. The lecture was given by Ivan Tušek of the Degordian marketing agency.
16 July 2016 – The Interregional Meeting of the Private Market Sector of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC PRIMS) is being held in Warsaw this weekend. Toni Luburić, a member of HDKP and AIIC, gave a presentation about the situation on the Croatian market.[:]
