International Translation Day

Susan Bernofsky, a most excellent scholar and translator of modern German literature, points out that today is International Translation Day, --on the feast of St. Jerome--an early Church translator of the Bible.

Here are a bunch of events in Germany

http://www.literaturuebersetzer.de/pages/veranstaltungen-archiv/veranst-iut10.htm

ProZ the online translator exchange is holding a virtual conference today

http://www.proz.com/translation3

If you are interested in getting work as a translator or want to talk to other translators about tricky formulations in a whole host of languages, ProZ is an excellent resource