Preliminary Program Tentative Agenda

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Sessions key: ABC (Agencies, bureaus, and companies); ATA (ATA Activities); C (Chinese); F (French); G (German); H (Hebrew); I (Interpreting); IC (Independent contractors); IT (Italian); J (Japanese); LAW (Law); LIT (Literary); MED (Medical translating and interpreting); N (Nordic); P (Portuguese); SL (Slavic languages); SP (Spanish); ST (Science and technology); T/P (Translator/Interpreter Training and Pedagogy); TAC (Translators and computers); TERM (Terminology); and V (Varia)

Wednesday, October 31

Thursday, November 1

8:00-9:15

ATA-1
Opening Session
Macfarlane, West

9:45-11:30

ATA-2
Presentation of Candidates and Election
Macfarlane

1:30-3:00

ABC-1
Translation Company Division Annual Meeting
Iverson

C-1
Chinese Language Division Annual Meeting
Mou

F-1
French Language Division Annual Meeting
Tubb

G-1
German Language Division Annual Meeting
Racette

H-1
Hebrew Language Division Annual Meeting
[being established]
Reichman

IT-1
Italian Language Division Annual Meeting
Crivello

J-1
Japanese Language Division Annual Meeting
Suzuki

N-1
Nordic Division Annual Meeting
Dellinger, Matteson

P-1
Portuguese Language Division Annual Meeting
Abreu

SL-1
Slavic Languages Division Annual Meeting
Favorov

SP-1
Spanish Language Division Annual Meeting
Heller

3:30-4:15

C-2
The Problematics of Chinese Interpretation
Ma, Tu

P-2
Translating Brazil's 500th Anniversary
Alfarano

SP-2
Topics in Spanish Lexical Dialectology: Folks
Moskowitz

3:30-5:00

ABC-2
The Same Difference—Translation into or from British and American English
Bacon

ATA-3
Strategies for Getting the Mentoring You Need
Searls-Ridge

[CANCELED]F-2
The In's and Out's of French Typographical Conventions or: Translation Doesn't Stop at the Words
Charpentier-Simon

G-2
Translating German Legalese: Written Arguments in Civil Litigation
Feuerle, McClinton

H-2
Hebrew Translation & Interpretation Training: Personal Reflections on the Bar-Ilan Program
Rozenblum

IT-2
Challenges in Translating Italian Financial Statements
Taylor

J-2
Legal Documents (Contracts) Made Easy for Japanese Translators —Understanding Legal Expressions
Gilbert

SL-2
Annual Susana Greiss Lecture
Newman

TAC-1
Tools and Processes to Make Your Website Localization Efforts Easier
Cárdenas

4:15-5:00

C-2
My "Mission" in Guam—A Story of the Complexity of Translation
Feng

P-2
How Much is "Very Much"? Developing a Questionnaire Rating Scale in Portuguese for both Brazil and Portugal
Arnold

SP-2
Los Nombres Propios y la Traducción: De Hook al capitán Garfio
Barros

Friday, November 2

8:00-9:30

ATA-4
Annual Meeting of the Association
Macfarlane

10:00-10:45

[CANCELED] ABC-3
Agencies versus Companies versus Freelancers
Gray

ABC-4
Listen First, Then Act: How up-front language analysis can make or break localization projects
Lenschen-Ramos

C-3
Low Budget Chinese DTP as a Side Business
Li

[CANCELED] F-3
Langage du droit, dictionnaire bilingue et corédaction. Le cas du Dictionnaire de droit privé du Québec
Gémar

G-3
An Introduction to German Patent Translation
Hartmann

IC-1
The Freelancer's Website: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Dietz

[CANCELED] SL-3
Getting Down to Business: Translating Financial and Economic Terminology
Tretyakov

V-1
New Ideas for a New Century Update on the XVI FIT Congress 2002
O'Connell

10:00-11:30

ATA-5
Preparing to Take the Accreditation Exam: Questions and Answers
Bohannon, Hanlen, Van Vranken

ATA-6
Chapters and Regional Groups Meeting
Anderson

I-1
"Home Alone 3": Building a Cooperative Network of Support Among Interpreters
Geertsen, Klebingat, Romero

J-3
Understanding the Semiconductor Industry & Technical Terminology in English and Japanese—Part II
Sakai

LIT-1
Literary Division Annual Meeting
Landers

MED-1
The NCIHC Forum Series: Listening to Your Voice About Telephonic Interpreting
Bidar-Sielaff, Downing, Roat

SP-3
Translating into Spanish for Children in the US
Abós, Alvarado

TAC-2
Critical Word Processing Skills for Translators and Editors: A Workshop
Bonewitz

V-2
The FACIT Translation Methodology: Teaming Up for Quality
Arnold, Eremenco, Honamon, Nagy, Poplawski, Tsuchiya, Watkins-Vijt

10:45-11:30

[CANCELED] ABC-3
Quality Control—What it means for You and Your Clients
Haase

C-3
How You Can Benefit from Word 2000
Wang

[CANCELED] F-3
Irreconcilable Differences: More Hazards of F>E Translation
Clementi

G-3
Industry and Terminology Standards in English-German Technical Translation: An Overview of Developments and Resources
Pfeiffer

IC-1
Successful Team Translators—What Does It Take?
Fosslien, Lück-Zastoupil

SL-3
Recent Issues in Russian and English Translation: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Overcoming Business and Technical Challenges
Lane

V-1
Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs—Update
Krawutschke

V-3
Introduction to the SAE J2450 Translation Quality Metric
Woyde

1:30-2:15

F-4
Challenges of Translating French Financial Terminology into English
Huhulea

G-4
Translating German Advertising and Marketing Texts
Tannert

I-3
The ASTM Standard Guide for Language Interpretation Services: What is It? What does It Say? What is It Good for?
Downing, Geertsen, Salazar, Sawyer

TAC-3
A Window to the World (or how to Make the Internet Work for You)
Altenburg

1:30-3:00

[CANCELED] ABC-5
Cakes & Dark Ale Everyday—Or Maybe Not. A Day in the Life at a Translation Company
Olcer

ATA-7
Accreditation: Implementing the Hamm Recommendations
Bohannon, Macfarlane, Van Vranken

C-4
Definite Article and Plural in Chinese?
Mou

I-2
Interpreters Division Annual Meeting
Teichman

I-4
Processing Time for Interpreters/Interpretation of Innuendo
Collins, Dively, Jackson, Metzger, Tray

IC-2
Why You Should Work as a Full-time In-house Translator
Chávez

J-4
Transit & Trados Head to Head in J<>E Translation
Hallett, Nakano

LAW-1
The Role of the Interpreter in Addressing Hate/Bias Incidents
Schneider

[CANCELED] LIT-2
Literary Translation: Getting it Published—A Nuts and Bolts Approach
Landers, Levitin

[CANCELED] P-3
Biomedical Translations into Portuguese: A Fascinating Minefield
Singer

SL-4
Russian-English Cognates That Go Their Own Way
Shabad

SP-4
Problems with the Translation of Terminology in Legal Documents in Mexico
Heres, Ventura

T/P-1
Community Interpretation in Rural Communities: Working with an Emergent Latino Population
Allen, Weber

2:15-3:00

F-4
Guide raisonné de l'innovation financière à l'intention des traducteurs
Gwod

[CANCELED] G-4
The Introduction of Euro Banknotes and Coins, Economic and Monetary Union , the European System of Central Banks and the Eurosystem—Terminological Issues
Haussteiner

[CANCELED] I-3
Interpreter Training in Cooperative Learning Approaches
Chen

T/P-1
Doing the "Write" Stuff: A Translator's First Duty
Arias-Moreno

3:30-4:15

[CANCELED] ABC-6
TV Dubbing and Subtitling: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Botero

ABC-7
Build a Successful Internship Program
Cohen

F-5
La Traduction Scientifique/Scientific Translation
Lacombe

I-6
Translating vs. Interpreting Competence: Similarities and Variations
al-Qinai

TAC-4
Cyborg Translation
Robinson

3:30-5:00

C-5
Chinese Translating: Why and How Different
Zhang

G-5
Translation Studies in Germany
Schmitt

I-5
Quality Assessment of Telephone Interpreters
Butler, Rosenberg, Stone, Turner

J-5
Dakara Anata Mo Iki-Nuite: Reflections on Translating a Bestseller
Brennan

LAW-2
The SSTI/NAJIT Translation and Interpretation National Certification Examination
Barros, Bunch, Orrantia, Rainof

P-4
Behind the Scenes of Script Translation
Fusaro, Leao, Pirozzi-Iole

SL-5
Double Jeopardy: A Bilingual Game Show for Russian<>English Translators & Interpreters
Khazin, Stone

SP-5
The World of IPOs
Debonis

T/P-2
"A Distinctly Absurd Proposal"
Howell, Skinner, Williams

V-4
Miffed, Upset, Angry or Furious?: Translating Emotion Words
Silzer

V-5
Quality-First Management in the Translation and Localization Industry
Morgan, Jr.

V-6
National Geographic Television and National Geographic Channels—Translations for Worldwide Distribution
Barilla, Tituaña

4:15-5:00

[CANCELED]ABC-6
The Source Language Editor: A Critical Role in Translation Quality Control
Abraham Gomez

[CANCELED] ABC-8
Mediating Language Services Online: A Changing Marketplace
Derkatsch, Kassen

F-5
"Le mot juste" or "le mot injuste": Translating Culturally Sensitive Material
Hahn

I-7
Life Before and Inside the Booth—A Reminder
Lopes

TAC-4
Cat Tool Blues—or Joy?
Baldwin

Saturday, November 3

8:00-8:45

[CANCELED] ABC-10
Everyone is in Sales (whether they know it or not!)
Hoffmann

ATA-8
Meeting with ATA Members Outside the US
Macfarlane

C-6
The Impact of Political, Social, Cultural and Economic Forces on Translation in Mainland China—A Case Study in Literary Translation
Duoxiu

F-6
Interpretation Yesterday and Today
Degueldre

LIT-3
Assessing the Spanish Translations of Proust
Craig

MED-2
Providing Medical T&I Services in an Unprepared Arena
Ledezma

SP-6
How to Create, Edit, and Publish Your Own Glossary
Rodríguez

TAC-6
Introduction to Software Localization (L10N) and Other Translation Technologies
Livermore

8:00-9:30

[CANCELED] ABC-9
How Can the Client-Editor-Translator Triangle Work Like a Quality Circle?
Berry-Gruby, Dias, Morin

ATA-9
ATA Newsletter Editors Meeting
Boggs, Conner

G-6
Entering the Profession: Orientation for G<>E Translators
Racette

J-6
Wavelength-Division Multiplex
Gooding

TERM-1
Collaborative Terminology Networks
Brown, Dotterer, Farré

TAC-5
Creative Approaches to Internet Resource Management
Rials, Skinner

8:45-9:30

ABC-10
Working with Teams of Translators
Kambas

ATA-8
The ABCs of ATA Active and Corresponding Membership
Jordan

C-6
20 Years of Trends in Translation Studies in Mainland China
Almberg

I-8
Conference Interpretation: Is it for You?
Thielen-Martin

LIT-3
What Did He Do with the Apple? Part II, More on Raymond Queneau, Translator
Velguth

MED-2
Translation of Health Insurance Information for Immigrant Communities
Bogoslaw

SP-6
Multicultural Spanish Business Terminology
Schreiber

TAC-6
Localization from a Project Management and Translation Standpoint
Schulze, Zolotor

10:00-10:45

ABC-11
What Every Project Manager Wants from a Subcontractor
Moyer

I-9
Introducing the National Center for State Courts
Hewitt

LIT-4
Character Delineation in Opera Translations: Examples from Wagner's Ring
Apter, Herman

LIT-5
Avoiding the Tiger Traps, Part I
Coates

MED-3
Biomedical Translation
Rekola

T/P-3
Sound and Translation: A Multimedia Approach to Increase Accuracy, Efficiency, and Quality
Rios

10:00-11:30

[CANCELD] ABC-12
Project Managers: The Unsung (and Sometimes Unhinged) Heroes of the Translation and Interpretation Industry
Ennis

I-10
Court Interpreting Techniques
Marty

J-7
Software Localization: Helpful Tips from a Quality Assurance Point-of-view (E>J)
Sasaki-Summers

P-5
Translation Theories for the Practice of Translation
Abreu

SL-6
Challenges in Translating Russian Financial Statements
Taylor

SP-7
Spanish Language Division Guest Speaker
Werner

T/P-4
Teachers' Forum
Champe

[CANCELD] TAC-7
New Horizons in Translation: The Internet and Translation Mediated Communication
Ashworth, O'Hagan

TAC-8
Quark X-Press for Beginners
Samu

V-7
Building a Balance Sheet from Scratch
Lopes

10:45-11:30

ABC-11
A Proposal for the Measurement of Quality in Technical Translation
Schiaffino, Zearo

I-9
Telephone Interpreting in American Courts: Just Reach Out and Ouch!
Benmaman

LIT-4
Discussion of Ignazio Silone's Fontamara, Bread and Wine, and The Seed Beneath the Snow
Fergusson

LIT-5
Avoiding the Tiger Traps, Part II
Bodkin

MED-3
Working as a Medical Interpreter
Rigney

T/P-3
Mentoring Translation Interns—Recipe for Professional Success
Karsch, Verble

1:30-2:15

[CANCELD] ABC-13
Flash Localization Projects Made Easy
O'Brien

ABC-14
The Freelancer-Translation Company Relationship in the Dawning Age of E-commerce
Bass, Ruppaner-Lind

I-11
Do's and Don'ts of Court Interpreting in the US
Norton

MED-4
Initial Assessment of Interpreter Skills: A Case Study in Screening Medical Interpreters
Roat

SL-7
New Terminology in Polish
Klingenberg

SP-8
Taxation in Latin America
Debonis

T/P-5
Does Translator Training Evaluation Meet the Needs of Industry Quality Assessment?
Arango-Keeth, Koby

T/P-6
Translation and Technology: Bridging the Gap Between the University and a Real Job
Gentzler

TAC-9
Online Translation: The New Trend
Ulrich

1:30-3:00

F-7
Bringing Clients into the Picture
Durban

G-7
New Trends in the Financial Translations Market and the Implications for German Translators
Faundez

J-8
Japanese Interpreting Workshop
Suzuki

LIT-6
Beacons Readings
Levitin

[CANCELED] ST-1
Organic-Chemical Nomenclature—A Workshop
Berger

TERM-2
A Solution for Terminology Management in a Multilingual Environment
Siracusa

1:30-5:00

TAC-10
Career Profiles in Training in the Localization Arena
Altanero, Lommel, Wright

2:15-3:00

ABC-14
Translating for an International Corporation (In-house and Freelance)
Volmer

I-11
Plea Bargain? You Bet Your Life!
Morra

IT-3
Electronic Tools for the Italian Translator
Napolitano

MED-4
Medical Interpretation at the Crossroads: Overview of the LA Area Hospital Project and CSULB Training Strategies
Rainof

SP-8
The Spanish to English Translation of Pathology Reports: A Slice of Life
Blumenthal

ST-2
Translating Technical Manuals: What are They? What are They Used for?
Dias

T/P-6
Brain Compatible Teaching
Austraat

TAC-9
Computer Aided Translation: A Translator's Personal Experience
Li

3:30-4:15

I-12
Telephone Interpretation in Action: A Live Demonstration
Macias, Wade

LAW-3
Eliciting Testimony through an Interpreter: Questions of Affirmation
Rigney

[CANCELED] LIT-7
Family Secrets: A Study in Comparative Literature
Bozzoli Rudolph

SP-10
El español: ¿Hacia el futuro, hacia el pasado o en ambas direcciones?
Cubillos

ST-3
Pharmaceuticals: Lab Testing
Dyer

3:30-5:00

F-8
Flashing Red Lights
Durban

F-9
New Trends in the Financial Translation Market and the Implications for Translation into French
Fuchs

[CANCEL] J-9
Computerized Translation Environment
Matsuoka

SP-9
Words at Play: Literary Translation Workshop (Spanish into English)
Engelbert, Zatlin

ST-4
Nuts and Bolts from Bumper to Bumper
Lopes

T/P-7
From Crawling to Walking: Translator Training Online
Savova, Terando

T/P-8
Collaborative Translation Projects: Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Translation
Ardemagni

V-8
Critical Success Factors for Language Service Providers in Today's Marketplace
Marty-Albisser

4:15-5:00

I-13
Interpreting for a Non-English Speaking Juror
Montalvo

LIT-7
Literary Translation: Freedom and Responsibility
David

SP-11
Investment Options: Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
Waldes

ST-3
Dinosaur Cloning: A Whimsical Look at the Process of Cloning
Murchison

ST-5
Clinical Laboratory Basics for English<>Spanish Translators
Pinilla