By Alexandra de Vries It’s that time of year! Summer is almost here in the northern hemisphere and students all around me are graduating from high school, college and university. I’m now old enough to see the children of my friends and colleagues graduate from university. However, I can speak from personal experience that going […]
ATA63 Recap: “Translating Non-binary Singular They into a Language That Does Not Have an Equivalent” by Tia Nutters, DLD Distinguished Speaker
By Mery Molenaar It’s Friday morning, October 14, 2022, and I am on my way to attend a presentation by Tia Nutters on translating “singular they.” For years, I have been struggling to find a proper translation of this gender-neutral pronoun in Dutch, and I am excited to learn more from an expert in the […]
ATA63 Recap: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: A marriage made in hell?
A note from the DLD Administrator: Welcome to the DLD’s first blog post of 2023. Let me start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year, on behalf of the entire DLD Leadership Council! May your year be filled with good health, fulfilling relationships and professional success. We hope that the DLD will be […]
Interview with Tia Nutters
At the ATA63 conference in Los Angeles, the Dutch Language Division had the pleasure of presenting Tia Nutters as the division’s Distinguished Speaker. Tia is an academic editor at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). She also conducts research on a host of translation-related themes and works to bridge the gap between translation theory and practice. She did […]
Membership Survey
By Irene Stoel, DLD Administrator October 15, 2021 In February of this year the Dutch Language Division sent out a survey to its membership to get a better idea of who the members are and how to tailor activities to their needs. 30 members responded to the survey, which came out to about 24% of […]
International Translation Day 2021
By Alexandra de Vries Dear Dutch Language Division colleagues, Today is International Translation Day, so we wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate everyone on “our” day. The United Nations chose to proclaim September 30th as International Translation Day because it celebrates the feast of St. Jerome, universally considered to be the patron saint of […]
#ATA61 – Part II
By Leo van Zanten, DLD Assistant Administrator During this virtual conference there were 120 Educational Sessions. At a regular conference it’s impossible to attend all at the same time, and the same is true virtually. Good thing is that the recordings are available until May 1, 2021 to all of us who registered, so we […]
#ATA61 – Part I
By Leo van Zanten, DLD Assistant Administrator We have had our Annual Conference for this year, and it was not great to not be able to see you all in Boston. Many of us looked forward to meeting our colleagues and friends. It’s a great occasion to gather educational information, to network, to get together […]