ATA 61 CLD Annual Meeting

November 11, 2020 By Liming Pals Leave a Comment

Meeting date / time: October 18, 2020/ 11:00 AM -12:00 PM ET Meeting location: Virtual

Meeting participants:

Present:	Administrator	Pency Tsai
	Assistant Administrator	Tianlu Redmon
		Liming Pals
	Distinguished Guest	Dr. Kevin Lin
	CLD Members	Everyn Garland, Yongmei Li, Sijin Xian, Rony Gao, Michael Thomas, Fang Gann, Paul Denlinger, Vivan Josh

Agenda:

1. Welcome	5 min	Pency
2. Introduction of DS	5 min	Tianlu
3. Dr. Kevin Lin speech	5 min	Dr. Kevin Lin
4. CLD 2020-2021	30 min	Pency
5. ATA61 Presenters introduction	5 min	Evelyn, Rony and Tianlu
6. Introduction of new officers: Tianlu & Liming	5 min	Pency

Minutes:

Topic	Summary of discussion	Conclusion
Opening speech	Pency
Welcome Dr. Lin	Tianlu introduced our distinguished speaker Dr. Lin.
Dr. Lin	Dr. Lin first thanked Aaron Hebenstreit for inviting him as the guest speaker for this year’s ATA annual conference. He has been working hard to improve the interpreting studies, translation studies, and raise awareness among colleagues. He called for fellow interpreters and translators to be open-minded and stated that we need innovation since translation will be done differently in the future.
Audience feedback	Sijin Xian provided feedback and insights about machine translation and human translation.
CLD 2020-2021	Pency and Tianlu shared what we have done in the past year. 1. We have a new logo designed by Shaoli Gu and a new website designed by Toni Xu. 2. WeChat Official Account started by Liming Pals. 3. CLD events hosted during the pandemic in June, July, and August. 4. CLD Membership Survey presented by Prudence. Prudence encouraged everyone to take the time to take the survey so that we can serve CLD members better. 5. ThreeWeChat Groups, one is ATA61 Conference Group, ATA CLD Members only group and ATA CLD Friends group 6. June shared about the interviews she did in the past year, which were published in the newsletter. Podcast is our new adventure and Prudence will be the first guest of our first podcast. 7. Yifeng is our newsletter/blog. We are looking for an Executive Editor or a group of editors.	If CLD members would like to join the new member-only WeChat group, they can contact Shaoli Gu (WeChat:GuGu96813) and provide their full name listed on the ATA directory. For a complete list of member benefits, members can refer to the email “ATA Chinese Language Division: Forums and Benefits” sent on August 6, 2020, by divisions@atanet.org.
ATA61 CLD- related sessions	Evelyn shared the presentation on patents, targeting experienced patent translators. Rony shared that he would present in Chinese. Tianlu will present on October 24^th on How to Be an Effective Interpreter for Depositions
Conference proposals	We encouraged members to continue to submit proposals. Yongmei made a suggestion about more regular cafes/webinars to network, practice the delivery or talk about the proposals. Yongmei suggested a workshop with Kara Lund who is a voice and speech coach.
Q&A	Tianlu encouraged more members to join LC. Prudence added that members were encouraged to just participate in a project if they like to. Yongmei likes to know the time commitment of joining LC.
Closing Remarks	Pency thanked everyone in the LC for the hard work.

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