2021-09-30
- "International Translation Day 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."
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- 2021-09-13 - To join by Zoom, please register in advance HERE. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Taking an online course can be an isolating and alienating experience -- especially during periods of quarantine such as we...
2021-09-01 - To join by Zoom, please register in advance here: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting....- 2021-08-25 - The American Translators Association (ATA) has written letters to President Biden and other administration officials urging Congress to immediately prioritize the evacuation of Afghan interpreters and their families to a safe location outside Afghanistan. “Acting swiftly is strategically important because linguists are essential in the global war on terror, and their safety is inextricably tied...
2021-08-24 - Do you know Dr. Ahyad is offering a new course this semester? Join TRST 580: Sociolinguistic Challenges To explore the interdisciplinary nature of Sociolinguistics and Translation. You will discuss about language policy and politics, power relations and language identity, diglossia and dialects groups, language variation and change, code-switching, and a lot more interesting topics. By...
2021-08-24 - Join Dr. Jenkins in TRST 403: German-English Translation this semester to learn about the theory and practice of translating technical, commercial, scientific, and literary texts from German into English and vice versa.- 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...