Preliminary Program
Tentative Agenda

Sessions key: ABC (Agencies, Bureaus, and Companies); ATA (ATA Activities); C (Chinese); D (Dutch); F (French); FIN (Financial Translation); G (German); H (Hebrew); I (Interpreting); IC (Independent Contractors); IT (Italian); J (Japanese); L (Literary); LAW (Legal Translation and Interpreting); MED (Medical Translation and Interpreting); N (Nordic); P (Portuguese); S (Spanish); SL (Slavic Languages); SOC (Social Sciences); ST (Science and Technology); TAC (Translators and Computers); TERM (Terminology); TP (Training and Pedagogy); and V (Varia)

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Wednesday, November 6

Thursday, November 7

8:30 - 9:15

ATA-1
Opening Session
West, Brennan

9:30 - 10:45

ATA-2
Presentation of Candidates and Election
West

11:00 - 11:45

ATA-3
Orientation Session for First-Time Conference Attendees
Ruggiero, Skinner, Vincent

1:45 - 2:30

I-1
The Time Factor in Interpreter Training
González

1:45 - 3:15

C-1
Chinese Language Division Annual Meeting
Mou

F-1
French Language Division Annual Meeting
Tubb

G-1
German Language Division Annual Meeting
Bohnert, Magee, Metzger, Racette, Winter

IC-1
Taking Care of Business: The Non-Language Side of Freelancing
Hine

IT-1
Italian Language Division Annual Meeting
Napolitano

J-1
Japanese Language Division Annual Meeting
Suzuki

L-1
Literary Translation: Getting it Published—A Nuts and Bolts Approach
Landers, Levitin

N-1
Nordic Division Annual Meeting
Matteson

P-1
Portuguese Language Division Annual Meeting
Braga

S-1
Spanish Language Division Annual Meeting
Heller

SL-1
Slavic Languages Division Annual Meeting
Favorov

[CANCELED] TAC-1
Software Localization Workshop
Livermore, Zolotor

TP-1
Teaching the Non-Translation Side of Translation
Marazzato, Wimmerlin

2:30 - 3:15

I-2
Consecutive Interpretation: The Mysterious Interplay Between Notation and Memory
Obst

3:30 - 4:15

G-2
What To Do About Denglish: Should Translators Worry About the Invasion of English Words into German?
Loewy

I-3
Interpreting is Like Solving a Cr_ _ _w_ _d P_ _ _le: Parallel Strategies and Techniques
Nicholson

IC-2
How to Successfully Market Yourself to Translation Companies: The New Technologies
Rimalower

TP-2
From Consecutive and Simultaneous to Dialogue Interpreting
Furmanek

3:30 - 5:00

C-2
Review/Proofreading of Translation Products: An Ordeal or Enjoyment?
Ma, Tu

[CANCELED]
F-2
FrenchEnglish Advanced Legal Workshop
Johnson

F-3
Translating Contracts from English into French
Houbert

H-1
Hebrew Language Workshop
Rozenblum

J-2
Experiences with the JapaneseEnglish Court Interpreting Test
Suzuki

L-2
Literary Division Annual Meeting
Landers

LAW-1
The Concept of Equivalence in Court Interpreting
Braun

S-2
Reinventing the Senses: A Workshop in Spanish Literary Translation
Schuster

TAC-2
Translation Support Tools Forum
Melby

4:15 - 5:00

[CANCELED] I-4
The Use of Compromise and Compensation for Translation Problems Involving Cultural Issues
Guim

IC-3
Getting There IS the Fun of It!
Becker

MED-1
EnglishGerman Medical Translation
Rosdolsky

TP-3
An Adventure in Online Learning: Introduction to Medical Interpreting
Mikkelson

Friday, November 8

8:30 - 10:00

ATA-4
Annual Meeting of the Association
West

10:15 - 11:00

L-3
The Challenges of Translating Antonio Skármeta's La Boda del Poeta
Rascón

S-3
Elementos conceptuales y terminológicos de los textos jurídicos en español
Maleh

TAC-3
Concept-Based Translation of an E-Business Software User Interface
Ren

V-1
On Dealing with Translation and Languages in Contact
Surek-Clark

10:15 - 11:45

ABC-1
Quality-First Management in the Translation and Localization Industry
Morgan

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

C-3
The Cognitive Process of Translators at Work: A Protocol Study
Zhao

G-3
Workshop: Translation of Personal Documents into German
Limberger-Katsumi

I-5
Interpreters Division Annual Meeting
Cole

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

L-4
Current Issues in Bible Translation
Silzer

[CANCELED] SL-2
Getting Down to Business: Translating Russian Financial and Economic Terminology
Tretyakov

SL-3
U.S. Legal Terms: How to Say It in Russian and Ukrainian
Khazin, Silversteyn

TP-4
Translation and Interpreting Research Forum
Angelelli

11:00 - 11:45

ABC-2
Localization Vendors: What We Hide from the Clients
Cárdenas, Landgren

L-5
Riding the Culture Bumps Roller Coaster
Lucier

S-4
Enseñanza de traducción jurídica
Mariotto

TP-5
Interpreter Training and Evaluation: Building a Theoretical Base Using Descriptivist and Corpus-Based Techniques
Lindquist

1:45 - 2:30

[CANCELED] ABC-3
Translating for an International Corporation II: The Quality Assurance Process
Wallberg

F-4
Profile of a Translation Program
Velguth

I-6
The Use of Portable Equipment in Conference Interpreting: When and When Not
Limberger-Katsumi

S-5
Spanish Language Division Megapanel, Part 1: Cultural Differences in Ethical Issues Regarding U.S. Models of Contracts, Codes of Conduct, and Similar in Latin America
Weller

[CANCELED] ST-1
Math, Statistics, and Similar Birds for Translators and Interpreters Who Hate Them
Lopes

TAC-4
Testing Localized Applications: The Linguist Goes from Word to Code
Chavarriaga-Doak

1:45 - 3:15

ATA-6
Chapter and Regional Groups Meeting
Croese

[CANCELED] C-4
Simplified Versus Traditional Chinese: What Every Translation Agency Should Know
Liu, Lu

G-4
Aus dem Nähkästchen der Überredungskünstler: Translation as the Art of Persuasion
Nord

J-4
Marketing
Sullivan

[CANCELED] L-6
Verse Translations of Old English Poems: Beowulf and Seamus Heaney's Translation
Shalita-Keinan

MED-2
The NCIHC Forum Series: Listening to Your Voice About a National Code of Ethics
Downing, Roat, Ruschke

SL-4
Annual Susana Greiss Lecture—Thirty Years Before the Slavic Mast: The Personal Narrative of a Literary Translator
Heim

TERM-1
Internet Terminology at Your Offline Fingertips
Kasprzyk

2:30 - 3:15

[CANCELED] ABC-4
Translating for an International Corporation III: Translator Skills and Competencies
Wallberg

ABC-5
Boot Camp Selling! How to Sell Translation/Localization Services Without Spending Millions of Dollars
Beninatto, Cárdenas

F-5
Swap and Derivative Terminology in FrenchEnglish Translation
Huhulea

[CANCELED] I-7
Guides to Telephone Interpreting
Lee

ST-2
Translating Technical Manuals—Part II
Dias

2:30 - 2:50

[CANCELED] S-6
Spanish Language Division Megapanel,
Part 2: On Circus Acts, Language Cops, and Linguists
Albin

3:05 - 5:00

[CANCELED] S-7
Spanish Language Division Megapanel,
Part 3: Context, Culture, and Cognition
Albin, Coggins, Hawke

3:30 - 4:15

ABC-6
Is the Customer Always Right?
Iverson, Smith

ATA-7
International Certification Study
Stejskal

G-5
Euro Proficiency for GermanEnglish Translators
Haussteiner

[CANCELED] I-9
The Challenges of Interpreting for Refugee Populations
Erickson-Johnson

IC-4
The Business Side of Translation and Language Services
Nunes

L-7
On Deadly Ground: Translating a Harrowing Modern Narrative
Landers

3:30 - 5:00

ATA-8
Session for Chapter and Division Mentoring Program Coordinators: How to Put the ATA Mentoring Program to Work in Your Division or Chapter
Searls-Ridge

C-5
How to Identify Quality Chinese Translators
Mou

F-6
Pharmaceutical Writing for FrenchEnglish Translators
Hansen

I-8
A Quality Assurance Model: Update on a Process for Identifying, Training, and Testing Telephone Interpreters
Butler, Hudson, Sawyer, Stansfield, Stone, Turner

J-5
JapaneseEnglish Accreditation Workshop
Davis, Miyasaka, Prener, Saegusa, Wagner

MED-3
Programs, Politics, and Perseverance: What's New in Healthcare Interpreting in the U.S.
Roat

SL-5
Transplanting Toads, Constructing Camels
Favorov, Lane, Stone

4:15 - 5:00

ABC-7
Handling Audiovisual Projects
Ragsdale

ABC-8
Multilingual DTP Demystified
Sette

[CANCELED] G-6
Complaints and Contracts in Translation from English into German
Bohnert

I-10
Telephone Interpreting: Everything You Wanted to Know
Gracia-Garcia

IC-5
The Lone Wolf and the Virtual Team: Translating in the 21st Century
Dietz, Niedermair

L-8
Roundtable: Translators and Literature Encyclopedias
Champe, Folaron, Gaddis Rose, Velguth, Zatlin

Saturday, November 9

8:30 - 9:15

D-1
Basic Concepts in DutchEnglish Legal Translation
West

J-6
Teaching Translation: A Task Analysis Approach
Sobieski

L-9
Global Translation in a New World Order
wa Goro

P-2
Translating Brazil's Arts and Parks
Alfarano

TERM-2
Firearms Terminology in English, French, Spanish, and German
Bye

TP-6
Does Translator Training Evaluation Meet the Needs of Industry Quality Assessment?
Arango-Keeth, Koby

8:30 - 10:00

[CANCELED] ABC-9
Languages Meet Technology: The World of Multilingual Multimedia
Schulze, Zolotor

ATA-9
The ATA Mentoring Program: How Are We Doing?
Searls-Ridge, Shaklee

ATA-10
Annual Meeting of Division Administrators
Heller, Racette

FIN-1
An Introduction to Accounting for Translators (Basic Financial Statement Analysis)
Taylor

I-11
The Third Interlocutor: The Visible Language Interpreter in a Healthcare Setting
Angelelli

L-10
Spanish Literary Translation Workshop (Drama and Poetry)
Engelbert, Zatlin

S-8
Translating Spanish Companies' Financial Statements
Rynne

ST-3
Patents in the Early 21st Century
Clayberg

TAC-5
Linguistic Quality Assurance Testing of Help Files
Napolitano

[CANCELED] V-2
Have You Thought of Publishing?
Champe

9:15 - 10:00

ABC-10
Managing an Effective Translation Team at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Alhadeff

G-7
Understanding the Recent Substantial Revisions to the German Law of Obligations
Van Alstine

J-7
More than Meets the Eye: Solving Puzzles of Grammar and Context in JapaneseEnglish Translation
Davis

P-3
The Syntax of Brazilian Landscaping
Feldmann

[CANCELED] TERM-3
An Analysis of Contemporary Terms in U.S. English Referring to the Ethnic Groups and Their Spanish Equivalents
Whitaker

TP-7
Teaching Tools: Information Management and Translation Pedagogy
Baer, Koby

10:15 - 11:00

L-11
Translating Dr. Seuss: Two Texts Not Published in Spanish
Millán

P-4
No Longer Camões' Portuguese: Syntactic, Lexical, Grammatical, and Stylistic Traps to Trip Up the Intrepid Translator of Brazilian, European, and African Portuguese
Moraes

S-10
Spanish Translation in Telecommunications
Vainsencher

10:15 - 11:45

ABC-11
Part 1: Translation Company Division Annual Meeting
Iverson

Part 2: Translation Company Quality Standards Workshop
Robinson

ATA-11
Translation, Publicity, and Public Relations: Why Grassroots Activism Can Make a Difference to Your Bottom Line
Durban, Hendzel, Inglis

ATA-12
New Directions for the Nominating Committee
Dyer, Fox, Macfarlane, Sette,Tompkins

D-2
EnglishDutch Translation Workshop
Lodge

FIN-2
Developments in International Accounting Standards
Bonthrone

G-8
Translating German Legalese: Contract Law and Related Aspects of the Law of Obligations
Feuerle, McClinton

[CANCELED] H-2
Hebrew Financial and Banking Workshop
Shalita-Keinan

I-12
Nuts and Bolts on Different Types of Interpreting
Cole, Gesse, Scott

J-8
Opportunities in Medical Translation for Translators with Non-Science Backgrounds
Iwamoto, Tamura

S-9
Taxation in Latin America
Debonis

ST-4
Organic Chemical Nomenclature: A Workshop
Berger

[CANCELED] TAC-6
Website Visibility Strategies for the Chinese Market
Adams, Lio

TP-8
Teachers' Forum
Champe

11:00 - 11:45

L-12
Ignazio Silone: Police Spy?
Fergusson

P-5
Portuguese in Metamorphosis: The Shak-Ess-Pey-Are-Eih Effect
Kelly

S-11
Ambiguity and Translation
Barros

1:45 - 2:30

ABC-12
Chinese Translation Project Management: A Chinese Project Manager's Perspective
Chen

I-13
What Can Interpreters Learn from Aristotle and Stanislavsky?
Herrera

L-13
Beacons VIII Reading
Levitin

SOC-1
Exploring the Impact of Translation in Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies in Public Health Research
Franco, Rodríguez

ST-5
Translating Historical Technology
Bobeck

TP-9
The Use of Think-Alouds and Sight Translation in the Translation Classroom, and the Implications for Individual Practitioners
Wakabayashi

1:45 - 3:15

D-3
DutchEnglish Translation Workshop
Lodge

F-7
Seven Recurring Problems in French to English Translation
Durban

G-9
Style Issues in EnglishGerman Translation
Racette

IC-6
Professionalism 101
Howell, Skinner

J-9
Japanese Dictionaries and Terminology in the Electronic/Internet Age
Sasaki-Summers

L-14
Aspects of Literary Translation: Dealing with Multicultural Context
Coates, Hahn

[CANCELED] MED-4
A Crash Course in Inferential Statistics and Experimental Design for Translators
Stone

S-12
Topics in Spanish Lexical Dialectology: La ciudad y los fueros
Moskowitz

SL-6
Navigating the Cyrillic "Swamp": Understanding Encodings
Lane

TP-10
Recruiting the Next Generation of Language Specialists
Luchian, Wright

2:30 - 3:15

[CANCELED] -I-14
How to Teach Service Professionals How Best to Use Interpreters
Koopman

SOC-2
Translating Demographic Surveys
Harkness

ST-6
Yes, Virginia, There is a Readable Software Manual
Ward

TP-11
Semantic Textbook for Translators
Fisher-Zhuravlova

V-3
Editing in the (Post) Globalized World: Many Questions... Are There Answers?
Alfarano

3:30 - 4:15

[CANCELED] F-8
Can You Translate Into "Québécois"?
Ponce

[CANCELED] S-13
Written Communication in Mexico: Do's and Don'ts
Hernandez, Rodriguez

SL-7
The Influence of English Syntax on Nominal and Adjectival Word-Formation Models in Technical Russian
Launer

SOC-3
Hispanic/Latinos in Census 2000: Numbers to Count in Business and Public Health
Rodríguez

[CANCELED] ST-7
XML Translation: How to Deal with the New Documentation Technology
Itagaki

[CANCELED] V-5
Export Controls: What Every Translator Needs to Know
Lane

V-6
In Favor of a Positive Interaction Between Translators and Proofreaders
Landis

V-7
What Has Gotten into You?
Bozzoli Rudolph

3:30 - 5:00

ABC-13
The Measurement of Quality in Translation Using Statistical Methods
Schiaffino, Zearo

ATA-13
Grader Recruitment for the ATA Accreditation Program
Bohannon, Coltrin

G-10
Transcription and Translation of Swiss Genealogical and Immigration Sources
Langenbruch

I-15
Teach Your Client (How to Work with an Interpreter)
McCollum-Rye

J-10
Japanese Language Division Forum
Sullivan

L-15
Marilyn Gaddis Rose Lecture—Language: The Master Organ
Theroux

TP-12
Internships in Translation and Localization
Popova, Sanchez, Wright

V-4
National Geographic Television and National Geographic Channels International: Translations for Worldwide Distribution
Barilla, Stremel, Tituaña

4:15 - 5:00

ABC-14
Why Satisfied Customers Defect (Applications of Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty to the Business of Translation)
Réthoré

SL-8
Son of False Cognates: More RussianEnglish "Relatives" That Go Their Own Way
Shabad

SOC-4
Effects of Latin American Immigration on U.S. Spanish Population
Cubillos

SOC-5
Translation/Interpretation, Language Identity, and Policy in the U.S.
Rainof

SOC-6
Problems of Translation in the Social and Natural Sciences (SpanishEnglish)
Klatt

ST-8
Computer Science for Internauts: How Email and Other Internet Services Actually Work
Moraes

TERM-4
The Language of Risk Management
Caviglioni, Harper

V-8
Gods, Kings, Priests, Writing, Encryption, Code Breaking, Decipherment, and Translation
Rock