{"id":156,"date":"2013-12-02T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp\/2013\/12\/02\/ata-54th-annual-conference-summary\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:15:00","slug":"ata-54th-annual-conference-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/2013\/12\/02\/ata-54th-annual-conference-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA 54th Annual Conference Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"
ATA 54th<\/sup> Annual Conference Summary<\/o:p><\/div>\n
By: Paul Koehler<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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                  <\/span>Translators and interpreters in many different language pairs gathered for the ATA 54th<\/sup>Annual Conference held at the San Antonio Riverwalk Marriot from November 6-9, 2013. This annual conference is always an important event and gives many translators and interpreters a chance to learn, network and get together with new friends and old colleagues.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
                  <\/span>Attendance from members of the Japanese Language Division was very robust, with about 55 members attending the official JLD dinner at the Iron Cactus, which was graciously organized by JLD Secretary Hiroki Fukuyama. Other happenings in JLD included the initial open house, several sessions and the installation of two new officers: Jim Patrick as Administrator and Nadine Edwards Assistant Administrator, while Masae Sullivan stepped down after serving as Administrator from 2011-2013.<\/o:p><\/div>\n

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                  <\/span>This year\u2019s distinguished speaker was Richard Walker, who came from Yokohama to give a presentation and workshop on \u201cFiendishly Difficult Japanese Sentences\u201d. Initial plans were also announced for next year\u2019s conference, which will be held at the Chicago Sheraton Inn from November 5-8, 2014.<\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATA 54th Annual Conference Summary By: Paul Koehler                   Translators and interpreters in many different language pairs gathered for the ATA 54thAnnual Conference held at the San Antonio Riverwalk Marriot from November 6-9, 2013. This annual conference is always an important event and gives many translators and interpreters a chance to learn, network and get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}