The UMass Translation Center announces the new group of incoming translation students/scholars for the Fall 2008 term:
Lenita Esteves (Brazil) is on sabbatical from her job as Professor of Translation Studies at São Paulo and will spend her fall semester with us at the Translation Center. She received her PhD from the Universidade Estadual [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
New translation studies scholars at UMass for Fall ‘08
July 29, 2008 – 1:21 pm
Facebook Members Post Free Translations
July 25, 2008 – 11:29 am
Facebook is causing quite a stir with its announcement to have its members perform free translations of its website. Using “crowdsourcing” to perform translations certainly saves a company lots of money–its free afterall–but at what costs?
Right now Spanish, French, and German are up an running, and other langauges such as Catalan, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Danish, [...]
Immigrant Workers in Iowa Denied Interpreter Rights
July 24, 2008 – 2:10 pm
Erik Camayd-Freixas, one of the interpreters for a group of 400 undocumented workers recently arrested by federal agents in Pottsville, Iowa, recently blew the whistle on the hearings which sent hundreds of the workers to jail without due process.
In an essay titled “Interpreting after the Largest ICE Raid in US History” published in the Monthly [...]
New Special Immigrant Visa for Iraqi and Afgan Translators
July 16, 2008 – 2:21 pm
On June 3, 2008, the President signed a new law authorizing the Department of State to raise the number special immigrant visas (SIVs) to Iraqi and Afgan translators and interpreters, allowing handlers to exceed the 500 visas earlier allotted. Applicants may also qualify for resettlement benefits. For more information, see the Dept of [...]