Julie McDonough Dolmaya | April 11, 2011
I’ve just returned from my trip to Monterey, where I attended (and presented at) the Monterey Forum on Innovations in Translator, Interpreter and Localizer Education. (See my last post for more details). Although many of the presentations focused on interpreter training, I did come back with some new ideas and tools to integrate into my [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | April 8, 2011
I’m writing from my hotel in Monterey, California, where I’ll be attending Monterey Forum on Innovations in Translator, Interpreter and Localizer Education at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Here’s a copy of the program, for those who are interested. I’m looking forward to today’s presentations on technology in the classroom; I’ll write a post [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | October 8, 2010
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the October Crisis, an event that was sparked by the FLQ’s October 5, 1970 kidnapping of British trade commissioner James Cross and which worsened when a second FLQ cell kidnapped Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte on October 10. Although Cross was held for 59 days before being [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | July 15, 2010
Well, it’s now more than a month since I got back from Concordia, and I’ve only just gotten around to writing about a really interesting presentation I attended while I was away. I put the blame squarely on house-hunting and the subsequent packing, moving and unpacking, which all required more time than I was [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | June 8, 2010
I recently returned from Montreal, where I was attending the 23rd annual conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies. Because this year’s theme was methodology, Daniel Gile and Andrew Chesterman were the keynote speakers. In their presentations, they reminded us of the methodological problems that can arise in academic research and offered some solutions [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | May 8, 2010
Now that classes have finished and marks have been submitted, I can finally get back to the research I left behind last summer: analyzing translation blogs to determine:
Which blogs are the most influential
How blogs are used by translators (are bloggers anonymous or do they identify themselves and provide links to their professional services?)
What type of [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | March 12, 2010
I’ve just received confirmation that my paper for the 2010 CATS congress at Concordia University has been accepted. I’ll be presenting my research on translator blogs. Here’s the abstract of what I plan to talk about:
Are translators offended when a for-profit company seeks volunteers to translate its website? Should translators lower their rates in [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | November 30, 2009
I have just learned that my proposal for an upcoming conference on paratexts and translation, to be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from June 21-23, 2010 has been accepted. I will be presenting a paper closely related to my doctoral thesis. It focuses on the motivations behind the translations of controversial, polemical or [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | November 7, 2009
I’ve just returned from Ottawa, from a meeting with the rest of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies executive council on Friday. This summer, I became the secretary of the association, much to the delight of the president, who will no longer have to chair the meeting while also trying to write the minutes. Over [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | August 9, 2009
Recently, I returned from the Berkeley Globalization Conference at the University of California. The conference was co-hosted by LISA and the University of California, Berkeley, and it was the first LISA event to be targeted at both academics and industry professionals rather than just the latter. The format worked well, I think, because, unlike many [...]