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ATA Activities

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ATA-1 Opening Session
Scott Brennan and Marian S. Greenfield
Thursday, 8:30am-9:15am - All Levels
ATA-2 Presentation of Candidates and Election
Scott Brennan
Thursday, 9:30am-10:45am - All Levels
ATA-3 Chat with the Board—WE ARE LISTENING
Scott Brennan
Thursday, 11:00am-11:45am - All Levels
ATA-4 Skill-Building Seminar for Mentors and Mentees, Part I
Courtney Searls-Ridge
Thursday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
ATA-5 Skill-Building Seminar for Mentors and Mentees, Part II
Courtney Searls-Ridge
Thursday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
ATA-6 Annual Meeting of All Members
Scott Brennan
Friday, 8:30am-10:00am - All Levels
ATA-7 Preparing to Take the ATA Certification Exam: Questions and Answers
Celia Bohannon, Terry Hanlen, and Lilian Novas Van Vranken
Friday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
ATA-8 CANCELED: ATA: The Coming Years
ATA-9 Workshop on the ATA Code of Professional Conduct and Business Practices
Courtney Searls-Ridge
Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
ATA-10 Standards for the Language Industry, Part I: The ASTM Standard Guide to Quality Assurance and the CEN Project of a European Standard
Beatriz Alicia Bonnet, Liese Katschinka, Kenneth E. Palnau, and Jacqueline Reuss
Saturday, 8:30am-10:00am - All Levels
ATA-11 Standards for the Language Industry, Part II: Data Standards
Peter Constable, Jennifer DeCamp, Alan K. Melby, and Sue Ellen Wright
Saturday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
ATA-12 NEW SESSION: Chapter and Regional Groups Meeting
Robert A. Croese
Saturday, 4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels
ATA-13 NEW SESSION: Regional Network for North America
Esteban Cadena, Marian S. Greenfield, and Kenneth Larose
Friday, 10:15am-11:00am - All Levels
ATA-14 NEW SESSION: Orientation for First-time Conference Attendees
John P. Shaklee
Thursday, 11:00am-11:45am - Beginners
ATA-15 NEW SESSION: Practical Leadership: Releasing the Positive Energy in Your Organization for Creative Growth
Ann G. Macfarlane
Friday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels

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Agencies, Bureaus, and Companies

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ABC-1 The Government's Changing Expectations of Translation Services
Rosario "Angie" Carrera
NEW TIME: Saturday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
ABC-2 The General Theory of the Translation Company
Renato S. Beninatto
Thursday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
ABC-3 Working with Conference Interpreters: How to Succeed with Your Clients and Contractors at Multilingual Events
Cristina Helmerichs D. and Steven Todd Mines
Friday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
ABC-4 Get the Right People in the Right Seats on the Bus: Behavioral Interviewing
Kim Vitray
Friday, 1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels
ABC-5 Editing: Are We Still on the Same Page?
Luis Carbo and María I. Sánchez
Friday, 2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels
ABC-6 Translation Company Division Annual Meeting
Kim Vitray
Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
ABC-7 Translation Quality Measurement in Practice
Riccardo Schiaffino and Franco P. Zearo
Saturday, 8:30am-10:00am - All Levels
ABC-8 The Tao of Project Management: An Asian Perspective
Mei-Ling Chen
Saturday, 9:15am-10:00am - All Levels
ABC-9 Translators as Editors
Miki S. Allen, Patricia L. Bown, Gerhard Preisser, and Thelma Leoni Sabim
Saturday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
ABC-10 Machine Translation: Translating Automation into New Opportunities
Ursula M. Schwalbach and Franco P. Zearo
Saturday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
ABC-11 Targeting and Profiling Customers and Vendors Online
Christopher P. Hurtado
Saturday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
ABC-12 NEW SESSION: If Present Indicative, Then Future Perfect
Everette Jordan
Thursday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
ABC-13 NEW SESSION: Quality-First Management in Translation and Localization
H. Randall Morgan, Jr.
Saturday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels

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Financial Translation

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Independent Contractors

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IC-1 Homepage Building for the Savvy Language Professional
Frank Dietz and Rainer Klett
Thursday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - Beginner
IC-2 Genius is Not Enough (Or, How to Market Your Skills as a Translator)
János Samu and Krisztina Samu
Thursday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
IC-3 Guerrilla Marketing for Freelance Translators
Greg S. Churilov
Friday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
IC-4 Translating for International Financial Institutions: Targeted Training for Freelancers
Barbera de Bruyn, Claudia H. Engle, and Neil Inglis
Friday, 1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels
IC-5 The Beginning of Wisdom: Some Practical Aspects of Freelance Technical Translation
Nicholas Hartmann
Friday, 2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels
IC-6 NEW SESSION: Claims Against Translators: What Are They and How Can They Be Prevented, Mitigated, and Defended?
Antonella G. Dessi
Saturday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels

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Interpreting

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I-1 Speaking with a History Maker: An Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials
Peter Less, Invited Speaker of the ATA
Thursday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
I-2 On the Silver Screen (Or, How Hollywood Sees T&I and What We Could Learn From It)
Steven Todd Mines and Rut Simcovich
Thursday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
I-3 Legal Translation and Interpretation: Ethics Everyone Should Know
Judith A. Kenigson Kristy, Ann G. Macfarlane, Alexander Rainof, and Timothy T. Yuan
Friday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
I-4 Cultural Interference in the Process of Interpretation
Rebeca F. Calderon
Friday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
I-5 The "I" Voice and You: Some Psychological Hazards of Interpreting
Ellen Sowchek
Friday, 3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels
I-6 Didactic Proposal for Bridging the Gap Between Translators and Interpreters: Introduction to Interpreting for Translators
Georganne Weller
Friday, 4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels
I-7 Simultaneous Interpreting: A Practical Approach
Carol J. Patrie
Saturday, 8:30am-10:00am - All Levels
I-8 On the Frontlines and Faultlines: The Life of a Conference Interpreter at the United Nations
Elena Howard, Invited Speaker of the Interpreters Division
Saturday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
I-9 CANCELED: Interpretation Equipment Demonstration and Training
I-10 CANCELED: American Sports Idioms
I-11 Interpreters Division Annual Meeting
Steven Todd Mines
Saturday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
I-12 NEW SESSION: Red Cross/ATA-Interpreters Division Disaster Relief Language Support Initiative
Scott Brennan, Debbera Hayward, Giovanna L. Lester, Caterina Vaselli Sullivan, and Rosa I. Viloch-Santiago
Thursday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
I-13 NEW SESSION: Telephone Interpreting: Specific Skills, Current Expansion, and Future Impact
Fabienne Sophie Chauderlot
Saturday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels

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Legal Translation and Interpreting

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LAW-1 CANCELED: Methodology for the Translation of Personal Documents
LAW-2 CANCELED: Prejudgment Remedies: Comparing the Medidas Cautelares of the Civil Law System
LAW-3 CANCELED: Stock Purchase Agreements (Translation from English into Spanish)
LAW-4 Equipment of Domestic Violence
Alexander Rainof
Saturday, 8:30am-10:00am - All Levels
LAW-5 Prosecution in Mexico of a Crime Committed in Colorado: The Translator's Role
Vicki C. Santamaria
Saturday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
LAW-6 Language Planning in the European Union for Interpreter Services in Criminal Legal Proceedings
Nancy Schweda Nicholson
NEW TIME: Friday, 1:45pm-3:15pm- All Levels
LAW-7 Improving Access for LEP Individuals to Federally-Funded Programs: How the Interpreting and Translating Community Can Work Together to Make it Happen
Linda Quash
NEW TIME: Saturday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
LAW-8 NEW SESSION: Corporate Finance: Legal and Financial Terminology
Silvana Teresa Debonis
Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - Beginner

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Literary

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L-1 Literary Translation for Non-Dummies
Clifford E. Landers and Alexis Levitin
Friday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
L-2 Translation, Reception Theory, and the Rise of Inter-American Literature
Earl E. Fitz and Elizabeth Lowe McCoy
Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
L-3 Literary Division Annual Meeting
Clifford E. Landers
Saturday, 8:30am-10:00am - All Levels
L-4 Playing with—and Shopping for—Food, Act II
Phyllis Zatlin
Saturday, 10:15am-11:00am - All Levels
L-5 Translation Is Not for the Squeamish: Sex and Other Bodily Functions in the Works of Rubem Fonseca
Clifford E. Landers
Saturday, 11:00am-11:45am - All Levels
L-6 Middlesex and the Translation of Ambiguity
Anton S. Pujol
Saturday, 1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels
L-7 Paratext in Translation: An Example from Farsi
Shayesteh Zarrabi
Saturday, 2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels
L-8 How to Translate Children's Literature
Aída E. Marcuse
Saturday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
L-9 NEW SESSION: Marilyn Gaddis Rose Lecture: Translating Under the Bridges in 13th Century Paris
John T. DuVal
Friday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels

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Media

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M-1 Pragmatic Interference in the Dubbing of Hollywood Movies into Spanish
Purificación Fernández-Nistal
Friday, 1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels

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Medical Translation and Interpreting

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MED-1 Moving from Cure to Care: The Challenges of Palliative Medicine at End of Life
Richard S. Lane
NEW TIME: Saturday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
MED-2 Epilepsy: History and Terminology
Maria Rosdolsky
Thursday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
MED-3 The Anomalies of Mental Health Interpreting
David Cardona and Janet M. Erickson-Johnson
Friday, 10:15am-11:45am - All Levels
MED-4 Words and Values: Factors Affecting Translation of Patient-Centered Medical Documents
Elena N. Levintova
Friday, 1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels
MED-5 Instrument Development for Limited-English-Proficient Individuals: Cultural Competence Considerations
Alejandra E. Koval
Friday, 2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels
MED-6 Toolbox for the Medical Translator
Alain Côté
Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
MED-7 Medical Liability Reform
Marcela D. Pinilla
Friday, 3:30pm-4:15pm - Beginner
MED-8 Symbiotic Interaction within Medical Interpreting
Janet M. Erickson-Johnson
Friday, 4:15pm-5:00pm - Beginner/Intermediate
MED-9 Medical Division Annual Meeting