Events

• November 2024
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  Amsterdam SIG – November 2024 meet-up

  From 29 November 2024 18:00 CET until 29 November 2024 20:00 CET

  At Stadsbar, Restaurant Babel, Oosterdokseiland Library OBA Oosterdok, Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam Categories: SIG meetings

  Meet fellow SENSE members from Amsterdam (and elsewhere) in a cafe setting. Pay for your own drinks.
• October 2024
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  Amsterdam SIG – October 2024 meet-up

  From 18 October 2024 18:00 CEST until 18 October 2024 20:00 CEST

  At Stadsbar, Restaurant Babel, Oosterdokseiland Library OBA Oosterdok, Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam Categories: SIG meetings

  [in-person meeting] Meet fellow SENSE members from Amsterdam (and elsewhere) in a cafe setting. Pay for your own drinks.
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  UniSIG: Making footnotes and bibliographies plain – decoding, readability, Zotero/AI, consistency

  From 11 October 2024 14:00 CEST until 11 October 2024 15:00 CEST

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [Online meeting] Stephen Machon on rules of the road specific to citing authorities for editors/reviewers of academic texts, including legal, the humanities and science.
• September 2024
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  Annual Utrecht SIG social & book swap

  From 18 September 2024 18:00 CEST until 18 September 2024 21:00 CEST

  At Theehuis Rhijnauwen Rhijnauwenselaan 16, 3981 HH Bunnik Categories: SIG meetings

  [In-person meeting] Mark your calendars! On Wednesday 18 September 2024 at 18:00 the Utrecht SIG will meet outdoors at the Fort bij Rijnauwen for a walk, talk and car boot book swap. This is becoming an annual tradition! Some of us missed the recent AGM book swap and still have way too many books we're not likely to read again. Now is the time to sift through your shelves. Please remember to take back any books you bring that haven’t found a new reader.
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  Amsterdam Borrel

  From 13 September 2024 18:00 CEST until 13 September 2024 20:00 CEST

  At Stadsbar, Restaurant Babel, Oosterdokseiland Library OBA Oosterdok, Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam Categories: SIG meetings, Social events

  [in-person meeting] Meet fellow SENSE members from Amsterdam (and elsewhere) in a cafe setting. Pay for your own drinks.
• July 2024
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  Starters SIG – Personal branding: Lessons learnt through trial and (t)error

  From 04 July 2024 19:30 CEST until 04 July 2024 21:30 CEST

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [online meeting] Personal branding: Lessons learnt through trial and (t)error.
• April 2024
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  UniSIG meeting – Generative AI cannot be an author but... can it be a reviewer? Beyond publishing policies on AI

  From 26 April 2024 10:00 CEST until 26 April 2024 11:00 CEST

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [online meeting] Dr Vasiliki Mollaki (Hellenic National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics, Athens). ‘Generative AI cannot be an author but... can it be a reviewer? Beyond publishing policies on AI.’
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  Starters SIG – Money management with Martina

  From 16 April 2024 19:00 CEST until 16 April 2024 20:30 CEST

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [online meeting] Freelancing means uncertainty – we've all heard that. It means not knowing how much money you’ll make each month; a pendulum between feeling like the richest person in the world and wondering whether you can afford dinner. But are there ways not to feel like that? Martina Abagnale from Picobello Translations specializes in finance and all things money. On 16 April she'll join Starters SIG to share her wisdom and help us learn how best to manage the money that comes into our bank account.
• March 2024
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  Southern SIG Meeting – Marketing the added value of language professionals versus AI

  From 07 March 2024 19:00 CET until 07 March 2024 20:00 CET

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [Online meeting] Convincing clients of the added value of language professionals in AI times.
• February 2024
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  Starters SIG – Specialisation: yay or nay?

  From 29 February 2024 19:30 CET until 29 February 2024 21:30 CET

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [online event] Business coach Miranda Apeldoorn from ZinVol will show us why having a niche is a good thing and give us the right tools to find that niche.
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  UniSIG Meeting: The plagiarism allegations against ex-Harvard president explained

  From 02 February 2024 10:30 CET until 02 February 2024 11:30 CET

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [Online event] How serious was the ‘plagiarism’ (properly speaking, the ‘similarities’) that software flagged in Claudine Gay’s papers? Mary Ellen Kerans presents some of the similarity findings in Gay’s papers and discusses their interpretation.
• January 2024
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  Zuid-Holland SIG Meeting - On writing and editing

  From 29 January 2024 19:30 CET until 29 January 2024 21:30 CET

  At The Hague (TBD) Categories: SIG meetings

  [In-person meeting] As we have mostly talked about translating at the last few ZH SIG meetings, this time we’ll focus on editing and writing. The meeting will take place at Hans van Bemmelen’s home (the exact address will be provided to attendees a few days before the event).
• December 2023
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  Starters SIG meet-up: Starters (Re)Unite!

  From 02 December 2023 15:00 CET until 02 December 2023 17:00 CET

  At Restaurant Se7en Mariaplaats 7, 3511 LH Utrecht Categories: SIG meetings

  [In-person meeting] The Starters SIG is back – and will hold its first ever in-person event! Come along and finally meet those faces you’ve only ever seen in 2D, or join us if you’re a fresh face yourself! This event welcomes members and non-members alike, so feel free to bring a friend you think might benefit from sharing their story and expanding their network.
• November 2023
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  Utrecht SIG ‒ Microcopy: snippets of text have a huge impact

  From 22 November 2023 19:30 CET until 22 November 2023 21:30 CET

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [Online meeting] Snippets of text have a huge impact. Microcopy refers to the tidbits of copy on websites and apps that guide, reassure, and engage users. These include buttons, calls to action, 404 pages, success and error messages.
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  SENSE Ed SIG meeting – Beyond IMRaD

  From 17 November 2023 19:30 CET until 17 November 2023 21:30 CET

  Categories: SIG meetings

  Join SENSE Ed on 17 November 2023 in Utrecht to discuss teaching the structure of research articles to authors.
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  Zuid-Holland SIG meeting ‒ The impact of MT

  From 16 November 2023 19:30 CET until 16 November 2023 21:30 CET

  At The Hague (TBD) Categories: SIG meetings

  As a follow up to our meeting in September we will be discussing the impact of MT, etc. on our work.
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  Southern SIG Website Talk ‒ How is your website coming along?

  From 09 November 2023 19:00 CET until 09 November 2023 20:30 CET

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  Let’s catch up on Thursday 9 November and discuss how our business websites are doing.
• September 2023
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  Zuid Holland SIG meeting

  From 13 September 2023 19:30 CEST until 13 September 2023 21:30 CEST

  At Hans van Bemmelen's house, Den Haag Categories: SIG meetings

  Zuid Holland SIG meeting. No specific subject, just an opportunity for ZH SENSErs to meet up.
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  Navigating Across Worlds and Languages: The Craft of Translating Speculative Fiction

  From 06 September 2023 19:00 CEST until 06 September 2023 21:00 CEST

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings, Guest lecture

  [Online event] Our speaker at the September Utrecht SIG meeting is Joy Phillips. Her talk is entitled ‘Navigating Across Worlds and Languages: The Craft of Translating Speculative Fiction’.
• August 2023
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  Southern SIG – Favourite reads of 2023

  From 24 August 2023 10:00 CEST until 24 August 2023 11:30 CEST

  At Zoom online meeting Categories: SIG meetings

  [Online event] Let’s catch up on Thursday 24 August and chat about the books we have read or plan to read this summer.

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