2021-04-30
- It's that time of the year again! Our class of 2021 is ready to present their capstone projects on Monday, May 10 and Tuesday, May 11. The languages involved include English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Japanese. And their topics range from sports terminology to the localization of health apps, Spanish Civil War, remote mental health care, and other amazing...
2021-04-05 - We are excited to announce that Dr. Kara Warburton has published a book entitled The Corporate Terminologist with John Benjamins Publishing Company. For more information, please click HERE. Our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Warburton!- 2021-04-02 - We would like to invite you to join our webinar, "Resources and Career Prospects for TIS Graduate Students", on April 16, 4:00-5:00 PM CST. Our program librarians and faculty members would join the webinar to introduce the amazing library and other university resources at UIUC, and our alumni will share their career experiences and resources in the field, and a lot more to...
2021-03-26 - TIS is co-sponsoring a lecture by Professor Pedro Mateo Pedro from the University of Toronto. In this talk, Professor Pedro Mateo Pedro will discuss his work on Mayan languages in Guatemala (Q’anjob’al) highlighting language documentation, language maintenance, and research. His projects rely on community involvement, and with this talk he hopes to motivate future work on the documentation...- 2021-02-08 - 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. 19, 3:00 PM CST. For registration, please click HERE...
- 2021-01-29 - "In Makkah, we live by proverbs. A Makkan would run a thousand proverbs in their head before making any decision. Some of the proverbs that we use are deadly. Join me to learn how some proverbs almost ruined my life!" ----- Dr. Honaida Ahyad Please see the flyer for zoon login information. /document/52
2020-12-14 - Our affiliate faculty, a teaching professor in the Department of French & Italian, Eda Derhemi, has worked together with Francesco Ferrari to translate the Albanian novel “Miele sul Coltello” into Italian. See more about the story HERE...- 2020-11-20 - Our second webinar on MA application Process will be held on Nov. 20, 3:00 pm CST. If you would like to know more about admission requirements, admission deadlines, documents required for application, etc., this is the event for you! Please register HERE! Hope to see you next Friday!
- 2020-11-06 - Theoreticians of translation and interpreting studies have consistently emphasized the deficiency of simplistic notions of "fidelity," "accuracy," and "equivalence" when dealing with the complexities of bridging linguistic and cultural worlds. Nowhere is it more important to contest and complicate these notions than in interpreting for speech-language pathology assessments. What...
2020-11-05 - Hadi Umayra, a graduate of the MA program in Translation Studies in 2018, who is doing his PhD in Translation Studies with a focus on literature concentration at the University of Texas at Dallas, has two newly published translated books from Arabic into English: Widows' Doomsday and A Piece of Night! ...- 2020-10-23 - Our alumnus Tim Gregory, who is a professional interpreter and translator, was recently interviewed by Intralingo on his translation of a novel from Arabic. Watch his interview with Intralingo Inc. HERE!
- 2020-10-19 - Our faculty will provide an overview of our MA curriculum and explain: how our multilingual approach works in practice; the differences and similarities between completing the program on campus or fully online; specializations in professional translation, literary translation, or interpreting. Our alumni will share their experiences in the program and in the...
- 2020-10-08 - The Global Education Symposium 2020 will take place virtually October 14-17, 2020. For more information and to register, please visit https://go.illinois.edu/GES20
- 2020-09-18 - Carlos Díaz, Manager, In-Language and Fernando Gutiérrez, Product Owner from In-Language will talk about what it’s like to work as translators for State Farm, within the wider context of the role of translation in a globalized industry. Eric Hughes, RDC Oversight Manager from the Research Park will explain the role of the Research Park, and they will all explain the details of their...
2020-04-11 - We are delighted to announce that the IPRH has recognized Dr. Ahyad’s expertise and the value of translation studies by awarding her a fellowship to conduct research during summer 2020. Dr. Ahyad’s project is to translate Manahil Sindi’s novel Nisf Estiwa (“Half-Cooked”) from Makkan to English. The project has three parts: the translation of Manahil Sindi’s novel Nisf Estiwa...