AATIA will host a sitting for the American Translators Association (ATA) certification exam in Austin on June 30, 2018. This will be a computerized sitting, although candidates may hand-write the exam on paper if they prefer. Registration and all other […]
AATIA will hold its first general meeting of 2018 on Saturday, January 13th. Our program will feature a presentation by one of our newer members, Robin Bonthrone, who is a financial-legal translator and also co-chair of the ISO Standards Committee […]
UT’s Harry Ransom Center has digitized about half of the collection of acclaimed Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and other well-known novels, making some 27,000 page scans and other images visible to anyone with […]
Our last meeting of 2017 was attended by some 40 AATIA members and friends, who were treated to two very different but equally interesting presentations. Adela Navarette got us started with some tips on how we translators and interpreters can […]
Nominations are now open for candidates to serve on the AATIA Board of Directors in 2018. Longtime AATIA member (and one of the Association’s founders) Esther Diaz has agreed to chair our nominating committee this year, ably assisted by fellow […]
Please join us for our last general meeting of the year on Saturday, November 11th, 2017, starting at 1 p.m. Acclaimed literary translator Marian Schwartz will headline our program with a presentation on her two latest, and very different, translation […]
AATIA members Carolina Martin and Susana Pimiento were featured in a first-page article in yesterday’s Austin American-Statesman about the city of Austin’s CodeNext initiative. The aim of CodeNext is to revise the city’s Land Development Code, which determines how land […]
At our September general meeting longtime AATIA member Maurine McLean recommended a couple of books she’s read recently. One, Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels and the Borderland Dream, by Joe Tone, tells the story behind a money-laundering case for which Maurine […]
We are pleased to post the following review of our September 9th general meeting, with sincere thanks to our reviewer, longtime member and former AATIA President Michael Blumenthal. Spirits rose at the September 9th general meeting as each attendee spoke […]