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2021 Winter SlavFile: Looking back at ATA61

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The latest issue of SlavFile is out! This winter issue of our Division Newsletter is chock-full of ATA61conference session reviews as well as regular features that our readers know and enjoy.

ATA61 SESSION REVIEWS

  • Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya on Ellen Elias-Bursac’s Greiss Lecture: “Working in a Tug of War”
  • Lucy Gunderson on Veronika Demichelis’s “Corporate Social What? Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility and How It’s Usually (Mis)interpreted in Post-Soviet States”
  • Evgeny Terekhin on Shelley Fairweather-Vega’s “Getting Edited & Getting Ahead in Literary Translation”
  • Liv Bliss on Nora Favorov’s “Balancing Act: Sneaking Historical Context into a Literary Translation from Russian”
  • Maria Guzenko on Evgeny Terekhin’s “How to Become a Literary Translator”

AS WELL AS

  • Marisa Irwin: “Newcomer Report: Conferencing from My Couch”
  • Lydia Razran Stone: “Confusing Idiomatic Usages in US Political News Reporting”

REGULAR FEATURES

  • Steven McGrath: “From the Administrative Underground”
  • Lydia Razran Stone: “SlavFile Lite: Not by Word Count Alone”
  • Nora Seligman Favorov: “Web Watch: Russian Literature Week 2020”

Do you translate or interpret in the legal field? SlavFile editors are soliciting contributions relating to legal translation and court interpreting by March 15 for the next issue. Please contact SlavFile Managing Editor Nora Favorov if you would like to share your expertise.

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SLD @ ATA61: Events This Sunday!

While the official dates of ATA61 are October 21-24, division events kick off early! Join SLD for its annual meeting on Sunday, October 18, 4:00-5:00 PM EDT. The meeting is open to all division members, even those not registered for the conference. Zoom meeting links for all the annual meetings are available on the conference website’s division page here. You can find the meeting agenda in the ATA61 Preview document under this website’s Resources tab, along with helpful links and other valuable information about the conference.

The fun doesn’t stop there! Also Sunday, at 7:00-8:00 PM EDT, conference attendees can join SLD’s networking event, the virtual counterpart to the annual SLD dinner. The link will be available through the conference platform. You can look forward to lively conversation with other SLD members in small groups (breakout rooms). Join us for a fun evening!

And if you’re not registered for the conference yet, what are you waiting for? Registration at regular rates closes this Friday, October 16.

2020 Summer-Fall SlavFile: Looking Ahead to ATA61

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The latest issue of SlavFile is out! At a whopping 32 pages, this summer-fall installment of the newsletter includes something for everyone:

  • Previews of the upcoming ATA conference
    • An interview with this year’s Greiss Lecturer / Distinguished Speaker, Ellen Elias-Bursać, co-sponsored with the Literary Division
    • Abstracts for Slavic-related sessions
  • Timely resources for our new pandemic reality
    • A glossary of COVID neologisms
    • A review of another COVID glossary
    • COVID-related (and unrelated) humor
    • How to keep your skills fresh in quarantine
  • Literary translations and related articles
    • What it’s like being a newcomer to the literary field (complete with an excerpt of said newcomer’s translation!)
    • The hands-on process of translating The Cherry Orchard for teenagers
    • Poems translated from Slovenian
  • Bonus material
    • An explanatory guide to American news and political jargon

You can find the latest issue on the SlavFile page (see tabs above), along with issues going back to 1995, with new issues added to the archive just this month. Happy reading!

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Present at ATA61 in Boston!

The ATA has issued its call for speakers for this year’s conference, ATA61 in Boston! Proposals can now be submitted online and will be accepted through March 2, 2020. This is your chance to share your expertise with T&I professionals, even if you are not a member of the ATA or SLD.

The Slavic Languages track will have 4 slots available, but we also encourage you to submit proposals in other subject areas and cross-listed in several tracks. You can also submit your proposal as a limited-capacity AST (advanced skills training) workshop.

Complete information on the proposal process, requirements, and topics of interest to ATA members, along with a link to the proposal submission form, can be found here.

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