With the 57th annual ATA conference coming up next week, I’m excited to report that we expect over 1,800 attendees (this will probably be our second-largest conference ever, after the 50th anniversary conference in NYC), the exhibit hall is sold out, and many of our Advanced Skills and Training Day sessions are sold out as […]
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ATA56 wrapup video
It will take me a few days to recover from the ATA conference and catch up on backlogged e-mail, but in the meantime, here’s the wrapup video from our videographer Derek Platts. The conference was a great success on all fronts: we had 1,622 attendees from 52 countries (we had expected about 1,500 attendees, so […]
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It’s that time again, and the American Translators Association’s 56th annual conference is open for registration! We’ll be meeting from November 4-7 in sunny Miami, Florida, and the program looks fantastic. We received a huge number of session proposals for the 175 slots this year, which is usually an indicator of a well-attended conference (last […]
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I’m excited to announce that ATA is now accepting session proposals for our 56th annual conference, to be held in Miami in November, 2015. Yes, you read that correctly: Miami in November…we’re expecting a large crowd! ATA depends on volunteer presenters for the bulk of the conference sessions. You can submit a proposal for a […]
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I love it when fun things go viral. Earlier today, I submitted a proposal for the 2014 ATA conference, then commented on Twitter that we need an “I Submitted” badge for the ATA conference, like the “I Voted” stickers that polling places in the U.S. give out. French/Hungarian>English translator Carolyn Yohn ran with the idea, […]
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