Earn 9 CE Points at an ATA Professional Development Event
Presented by the American Translators Association
and the Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association
  

Crowne Plaza Riverwalk
San Antonio, Texas
March 27-28, 2010

• AATIA Member Mike Magee will present a session on Patent Translations.
• Karen Tkaczyk will present From Soap to Drugs and Back, via QA and SOPs.
• Aaron Ruby will present Research Techniques and Primary Resources for Technical Translators

All presentations are non-language-specific.
Early registration ends March 19.

To learn more, see http://www.atanet.org/pd/scitech

Register online now for an information session on the American Translators Association (ATA) translator certification program, to be offered by AATIA on Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Registration deadline: March 15. (more…)

The American Translators Association will host its 50th Annual Conference in New York City (October 28-31).

This three-day event will showcase diverse panel discussions, expert presentations, training workshops, and scholarly papers. Both general and language-specific sessions will be offered, with topics ranging from successful marketing in a difficult economy to international translation quality standards.

Additional conference activities include a Job Marketplace, a vendor exhibit hall, and ATA certification testing. See conference information and program for more details.

Online registration is now open. ATA members receive discounted registration fees as a member benefit.

For questions, contact Maggie Rowe, Membership Services Manager (phone +1-703- 683-6100, ext 3001).

Help make this fall’s ATA Annual Conference in New York City (October 28-31, 2009) one of the Association’s very best by sharing your knowledge and expertise through a conference presentation.

Proposals are currently being accepted; you do not need to be an ATA member to submit one. Submission deadline: March 9, 2009. Additional information.

The American Translators Association has selected the site for the 2013 annual conference: San Antonio’s Marriott Rivercenter Hotel on the famous Riverwalk. Tentative dates are November 6 – 9.

The last time the association met in Texas was 1994, when Austin hosted the conference.

Orlando is the site of this year’s meet. The association will hold conferences in New York City in 2009 (ATA’s 50th anniversary), Denver in 2010, Boston in 2011, and San Diego in 2012.

 Kudos to AATIA members Susana Roca-Smith and Edward Palm, who sat for the ATA certification exam in Austin last April and are now ATA-certified translators!

If any of the other AATIA members who sat for the exam in April have been notified that you passed, please let us know!

AATIA will sponsor another ATA certification exam sitting during 2009. Watch the AATIA website calendar and this blog for further information.

The Summer 2008 issue of ATA’s new online version of Source, the Literary Division newsletter, is now available.

Don’t miss Tony Beckwith’s cover-page cartoon and By the Way: My LitSIG column, plus a fascinating look at Computer Game Localization and Literary Translation by Frank Dietz.

Potential contributors to the Fall issue should email submissions to Source Editor Michele Aynesworth.

Left to itself, every literature will exhaust its vitality if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one.
 — Goethe, 1827.

This belief that international literature plays a vital role in book culture is one that is shared by all the publishers and booksellers involved in Reading the World, a celebration of literature in translation to be held at BookPeople on Friday, June 6.

Noted Russian translator Marian Schwartz will moderate the hour-long program, which begins at 7 p.m. and will consist of three parts:

1. Liliana Valenzuela reading from her translation from English into Spanish: Cristina Garcia, A Handbook to Luck/Las Caras de la Suerte

2. Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey reading from her translation from Portuguese: Teeth Under the Sun by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (Dalkey Archive P, 2007).

3. Michele McKay Aynesworth presenting Beacons, the literary journal of the American Translators Association, with readings by the following: Liliana Valenzuela, Tony Beckwith, and Rob Cogswell and his translator, Horacio Peña.

This event is hosted by the Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association.