2022-12-13
- A new study posted on The New York Times has listed Champaign, IL, as one of the best college towns for postsecondary students, based on lower median rent, average tuition cost, and general cost of living. Check the whole article...
2022-12-06 - The SLCL alumni e-newsletter published a highlighted profile story of our alumnus Matthew Ginsberg-Jaeckle (MA, 2015). He has contributed his expertise to the training of medical interpreters and research in the healthcare field. You can read more about his fascinating story here: ...
2022-11-10 - Dr. Xiaojuan Qian will offer TRST 580 Chinese/English Translation synchronously online in Spring 2023. Meeting time will be arranged according to students’ schedules. This introductory course provides an overview of the history of Chinese/English translation practice and theory and hands-on translation practice (C-E and E-C). Students will focus on the contrastive studies of the Chinese and...
2022-10-24 - It's Graduate Student Appreciation week! Thank you for joining us and being a TIS graduate student. Check the Graduate College website for more activities this week!
2022-10-21 - Last week, TIS students Hebba Abulsaad, Amy Gamble, Muhammad Hassan, and Jacob Brown attended the ATA 63 annual conference in LA, Oct. 12-15! And they met some of our alumni there too! Patricia Worsley, graduated May 2022, presented a poster of her Capstone Project at the conference!- 2022-10-13 - We will hold a webinar to briefly introduce our MA program on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 4:00 pm CST. Register here! 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...
2022-09-29 - On 24 May 2017, the UN declared September 30 as International Translation Day (ITD). This is meant "as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security" (UN.org). This year the theme...
2022-04-27 - The World Poetry Reading in Translation, sponsored by Literatures and Languages Library International and Area Studies Library and Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies, will be held virtually this Friday, Apr. 29 at 4:30pm central time. Come for a feast of poetry in Arabic, French, German, Spanish, and a few other languages!!...
2022-04-04 - Dr. Honaida Ahyad will be delivering a presentation, "Sociolinguistic Challenges in Translation" in Chcik Lit Translation at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 12 pm CST. The event will be held virtually on Zoom. For registration, please click HERE.- 2022-03-24 - We invite you to participate! The International and Area Studies Library, the Literatures and Languages Library, and the Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies are organizing a Poetry in Translation event on April 29, 2022, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm. The event will take place via Zoom. Poems in any language and any subject are welcome, along with their translation to or...
- 2022-03-23 - We are so proud to announce that the translation work of our alumnus Hadi Umayra (MA, 2018), "Aisha, Baghdad, and Me" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, which "honors the best poetry, short fiction, essays, or other literary works published in the small presses over the previous year". Before joining TIS, Hadi Umayra has served in the US Army as an Arabic translator and cultural...
- 2022-03-22 - Join our TIS Alumni Pathways Webinar 2022 via Zoom on Friday, Mar. 25, 4 pm - 5:30 pm CST! Three of our alumni: Abigail Wright (MA, 2016), Audra Lincoln (MA, 2020), and Jeffrey Miller (MA, 2015), will share their experience in how they have applied the skills/knowledge acquired in our program into their daily work, their experience/ suggestions about networking...
- 2022-02-09 - Congratulations to Dr. Warburton and our MA Alum Kamya Krishnan (MA 2021)! Their work on a localization of our Safer Illinois app has been published in the Journal of Internationalization and Localization. They have been working on a localization of our Safer Illinois app, which until quite recently was used to keep track of Covid-19 contact tracing and test results...
- 2022-01-21 - Would you like to know what a graduate student life is like with us? How do the online and on-campus modes of our program work? What can you expect in a synchronous or asynchronous class? Please join us on our next webinar on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, 4:00 PM CST. Whether you have applied or are...
- 2021-11-30 - The Graduate Minor in Translation and Interpreting Studies is available beginning in the Spring 2022 semester. Why complete a Graduate Minor in Translation and Interpreting Studies? It is hard to imagine a field of study better positioned to meet the demands of an increasingly global society than Translation and Interpreting. Translation and Interpreting as...