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Winter 2024 SlavFile – Out Now!

March 26, 2024

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The latest (and likely last) SlavFile, Winter 2024, is out now! Check it out in the SlavFile archive.

This issue provides a very readable, entertaining, and educational look back at ATA64 in Miami, a well-informed cover piece on AI and translation, and, in the final article, a history of SlavFile and tribute to its long-time editor Lydia Razran Stone.
John Riedl       
Artificial Intelligence and Translation: The ATA Conference Notes of a Relapsing Computer Engineer
Steven McGrath
Notes from the Administrative Underground
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the SLD
CONFERENCE SESSION REVIEWS
Chris Pawlowski and Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya
Carol Apollonio’s “They Have No Idea: Translation Insiders and Outsiders”
Clare Urbanski
First-Timer Review: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Sarah McDowell
First-Timer Review: Musing on a Magnificent Meeting of the Minds in Miami
Steven McGrath
Katarzyna Diehl’s “Handling Foreign Names, Dialects, and Archaic Language in Complex Jobs”
Marisa Irwin
Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya’s “Making Coherent English out of a Pile of Russian Nouns”
Shelley Fairweather-Vega
Natalia Postrigan and Steven McGrath’s “Two Language Pairs in Time of War: How Two Russian Translators Started Working with Ukrainian”
Larry Bogoslaw
Vladimir Reznikov, Margarita Sotnikova, and Steven McGrath’s “Invasion: The Story of a Book Risen from the Ashes”
Nora Seligman Favorov
Farewell to SlavFile?
end of SlavFile reprint

Filed Under: SlavFile Tagged With: AI, ATA64, session review, SlavFile

2023 Summer/Fall SlavFile – Now Online

October 12, 2023

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The latest issue of SlavFile is out! This pre-conference Summer/Fall edition of our Division Newsletter focuses on ATA64 (sessions/events, SLD dinner, Greiss lecturer interview, etc.). For those attending ATA64, please see page 15 for details about the SLD Annual Dinner.

Also in this issue:

  • A report from Ukraine on freelance translating in time of war (Vatslav Yehurnov)
  • An interview with our 2023 Greiss Speaker, Carol Apollonio (Nora Seligman Favorov)
  • Notes from the (Online) Administrative Underground (Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya)
  • Introducing the New SLD Administrator Team (Steven McGrath and Natalia Postrigan)
  • One Fundamental Flaw of AI (Evgeny Terekhin)
  • Messenger Marketing for Freelance Translators (Dmitry Beschetny)
  • Children’s Poetry in Translation (Lydia Razran Stone)

A round of applause for the SlavFile editorial team and all the contributors.

If you have feedback or ideas for future issues, contact SlavFile Editor Nora Favorov.

Filed Under: SlavFile Tagged With: ATA64, conference, SlavFile, translation

Headed to ATA64 in Miami? Join us for dinner!

September 21, 2023

People eatingThursday, October 26 | 6:15 p.m.

The SLD plans to continue its tradition of holding an annual dinner at ATA64 in Miami. We hope you can come join us for a Brazilian buffet!

The venue for the dinner is:
Camila’s Restaurant
129 SE 1st Ave, Miami, FL 33131
+1 305-375-0992
https://www.camilasrestaurant.com/

We plan to leave the conference hotel together on Thursday, October 26, at 6:15 EDT.

Tickets for the buffet will be $27, which includes tax, gratuity, and one free drink. To help prepare an appropriate table, please RSVP by October 23 by sending Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya an email at eugenia@sokolskayatranslations.com. Payments can be made via Zelle or PayPal to the same address.

 

Filed Under: ATA64, SLD, SLD Networking Tagged With: annual dinner, ATA64, events, networking

ATA Conference Veterans – Brainstorm Networking: Make The Most of ATA64!

September 20, 2023

Photo by Evangeline Shaw on Unsplash

September 21 / 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

Calling all experienced conference-goers! If you’ve previously attended an ATA Annual Conference and plan on joining your colleagues for ATA64 in Miami, this fast-paced networking/brainstorming event is for you. Meet other veteran conference-goers, trade tips for getting the most bang for your buck, and plan your Miami conference experience together.

This networking event will not be recorded.

Click here to register!

Filed Under: ATA Networking, ATA64 Tagged With: ATA, ATA64, conference, networking

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