Nordic Editors and Translators Event – English as a lingua Nordica

Friday, 2 September 2022

3pm to 6 pm (Helsinki time)

NEaT’s annual seminar – back for 2022, this year on accessible language (and can you spot the theme behind the word cloud)?  http://nordicedit.fi/?p=1119

Nordic Editors and Translators were pleased to host the 2022 English as a Lingua Nordica (#ELN2022) seminar. The ELN series highlighted the ways we can use language to contribute to a just society. This year, we focused on inclusive language. The main speaker was Hisayo Katsui, associate professor in disability studies, who spoke about theories of disability studies and how they apply to us in working with text as language professionals. Afterwards, we had a hands-on workshop on web content accessibility by Pauliina Baltzar and Maija Hirvonen.

Afterwards, delegates joined us at the Fat Lizard restaurant in Herttoniemi to continue the discussion.