2025-10-09
- TIS will host the next TIS Career Talks: Exploring the World of Interpreting, on Tuesday, October 21, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.This interactive session will feature two accomplished M.A. in Translation & Interpreting alumni who have built successful careers in diverse interpreting contexts – from conference halls and hospitals to courtrooms and classrooms....
2025-09-30 - The FIT annual theme for ITD 2025 is "Translation, shaping a future you can trust"! Today, we celebrate the invaluable contributions of translation professionals worldwide. Our work goes beyond words — it’s about building bridges, fostering understanding, and nurturing trust across cultures.This year is a moment to reflect on the essence of “trust and...
2025-08-14 - Dr. Erzurumlu will start offering a new TIS course this fall! It's available both in person and online, and counts towards the TIS undergraduate certificate, MA and graduate minor degrees. This course will explore the role of culture in translation and interpreting. Through discussion of primary texts, movies, and hands-on experience in translation workshops, this course aims to take...
2025-03-24 - Join "TIS Career Talks" on Friday, April 18, 2-3 pm via Zoom to explore career paths in Translation and Interpreting Studies, gain insights from experienced professional, and engage in a Q&A session with the presenters. For registration, please click...
2025-03-12 - TIS alumna, Razan Roumany (MA, 2022), was recently interviewed on the interpreting podcast, Found in Interpretation. She shared her amazing experience working as a medical interpreter in Spanish and French. Here is the full interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNBF5i_T_4
2025-02-10 - Dr. Arzik-Erzurumlu will join Universidad de Jaume I's "Researching Translation and Interpreting series" as a guest lecturer with her talk entitled "Gendered Approaches to remote interpreting: A booth of one's own" on March 10. Please find the link to it: https://www.uji.es/...
2025-01-22 - Interested in learning how to prepare your best admissions application? Register for our webinar on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm CST! In this webinar, members of the TIS admissions team will share what we look for when we evaluate applications for...- 2024-10-21 - We will hold a webinar to briefly introduce our MA program on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2-3 pm CST. During the event, faculty of the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies at UIUC will provide an overview of our MA curriculum, and explain: how our multilingual approach works in practice; differences and similarities between completing the program on campus or fully...
2024-09-30 - The theme of the International Translation Day this year is to protect translation as an art. As we celebrate this important day with the international community, we also would like to invite you to take a moment to reflect...
2024-09-06 - Our new faculty member, Dr. Ozum Arzik Erzurumlu will deliver a talk for AIIC USA on Saturday, October 05, 2024. The talk is entitled Interpreting as Emotional Labor: Exploring the Social Carpet of Conference and Broadcast Interpreting. Drawing on research and personal experience interpreting speeches by US Presidents, such as Joe Biden and Donald Trump...- 2024-08-15 - Today is Dr. Tolliver’s last day as our program director. We are deeply indebted to have her as our anchor in the past 8 years. As a wonderful “academic diplomat” (a term coined by one of our colleagues for Joyce only), she has helped TIS grow tremendously and become one of the top master programs in T&I. She has been an amazing leader, colleague, and friend, and we are so sorry to see her...
2024-04-03 - Join us this Thursday, Apr. 4 for the World Poetry Reading in Translation cohosted by the Literatures and Languages Library and our program in Main Library Room 106 or via Zoom. For registration, please click HERE or scan the QR code in the flyer.
2024-04-03 - Our second alumni event of this year is coming soon! Please mark your calendars for Monday, Apr. 15, 2-4 pm CST. Please click HERE to register first. Three of our alumni will present this time: Fahd Alhathloul (MA, 2019, Arabic<>...
2024-03-26 - The SLCL’s alumni e-newsletter has featured TIS Alumna Hebba Abulsaad (MA, 2023) as one of the new graduates who came to our program with an interesting backstory and overcame obstacles to walk across that stage.
2024-02-19 - Two of our alumni who have been active in the field of translation and interpreting will share their experience and knowledge with our TIS community on Friday, Feb. 23, 4-5:30 pm CST One of the presentations will be delivered by Koeun Lee (MA 2023, Literary translation), and her title is "AI translation in the real world: How a global organization uses AI in...