The American Translators Association is now accepting presentation proposals for ATA's 58th Annual Conference in Washington, DC (October 25-28, 2017). Proposals must be received by March 3, 2017.Is there a session you would like to present at ATA58? Is there a workshop or issue … [Read more...]
ATA57: JLD Sessions & Events
We are pleased to announce Prof. Jay Rubin will be our Division Guest Speaker this year. You can find his bio here. And here are some of the other JLD sessions at the conference.The early bird deadline for the conference is this Friday, September 23. The … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Translating Racially Sensitive Passages and Other Minefields
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J1 Thursday, Nov 05, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PMSession Summary bySarah LindholmIn this session, the Japanese Language Division’s 2015 Distinguished Speaker, Juliet Winters Carpenter, used various excerpts from an as-yet-unpublished thirty-page … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: How to Read and Translate Risk and Safety Vernacular Phrases in Technical Texts
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session ST-3Friday, Nov 06, 10:00am-11:00amSession summary by Noriko NevinsThe purpose of this presentation was to inform translators who translate chemical documentation that there are official set translations that employ established and accepted … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Skills and Strategies for Deciphering Handwritten Japanese Documents
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J-6Saturday, Nov 07, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMSession summary byPaul KoehlerA session on how to decipher difficult-to-read handwriting in Japanese was given by Dr. Mariko Okada, an associate professor at J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, and ATA … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: The Japanese-English Interpreter’s Panel
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J-8Saturday, Nov 07, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSession Summary byTyler MillerThere were many things to take away from the entertaining and informative Japanese/English Interpreters Panel at the Miami ATA conference. The four presenters, Ms. Izumi … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Challenges of Literary Translation: Finding your Voice
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J-4Friday, Nov 06, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSession Summary byPatricia PringleJuliet Winters Carpenter shared with us the various types of challenges and choices she faces as she translates Japanese literary works. She gave us some idea of the … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Deposition Interpreting Workshop
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J3Thursday, Nov 05, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMSession Summary byMiyako OkamotoIzumi Suzuki started her workshop by asking the attendees’ preferred language, Japanese or English. Then she asked how many have ever interpreted in deposition. She saw only … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: “Two Roads Diverged…”: Making Good Choices in Japanese-into-English Translation
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J2Thursday, Nov 05, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSession Summary byDrew FernandoAs you probably already guessed by the allusion to the famous poem by Robert Frost, Session J-2 dealt with choosing between the possible options when translating from Japanese … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Wrapping up Miami
It has already been over a week since our colleagues headed home from the ATA’s 56th Annual Conference in Miami full of new ideas and inspiration, wads of business cards, and hopefully some deeper business relationships. This was an election year for the JLD, and I feel … [Read more...]