It's been one year, and now we are getting ready to jump on a plane and attend our very favorite conference: the 54th Annual Conference of the American Translators Association in San Antonio, Texas. We are very much looking forward to seeing all our lovely friends and colleagues, and it will be a pleasure to meet new friends, too! We wanted to share a brief overview of where we will be in case you'd like to stop by, say hello, and/or have a cup of coffee.
- Newbies and buddies. This year, the ATA created a fantastic new program for first-time conference attendees The idea is to match newbies with buddies, and we are happy to participate as buddies, as we remember how intimidating it was to walk into our first-ever conference. There's a Buddies Welcome Newbies event on Wednesday, November 6th at 5:15 p.m., right before the opening reception. We will be there with bells on, looking for our newbie!
- Welcome reception. This is, without a doubt, our favorite event of the conference. It takes place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and will feature a ballroom full of our friends and colleagues. We'd love to meet up, and we should be easy to find, as we believe that we just might be the only twins. Last year's opening reception in San Diego, right next to the ocean, was hard to beat, but we are sure this year will be fantastic as well.
- Presentations. This year, we are giving two presentations. One will be a joint presentation for the German-language division of the ATA, and it's all about the variety of German that's spoken in Austria. We gave the first part of this presentation in San Diego last year, and we are doing the second part on Saturday, November 7, at 8:30 a.m. It's called Austracisms for Beginners. In addition, Judy is giving a presentation titled Assertive, Not Aggressive: Dealing with Conflict on Friday, November 8, at 11:30 a.m.
- Book signing. It's our great pleasure to do yet another book signing with our dear friend Freek Lankhof of InTrans BookService, who graciously carries our book. Freek is celebrating 25 years as an exhibitor at the ATA, so be sure to stop by and help us celebrate! We will be there during Freek's anniversary reception from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 7 (in the exhibit hall) and we will also sign on Saturday, November 9, from 10 to 10:30 a.m.
- Associations. Dagy is proud to represent UNIVERSITAS Austria, the Austrian Interpreters' and Translators' Association, and she is attending the conference with her Secretary General hat on. Judy is the past president of the Nevada affiliate group of the ATA, the Nevada Interpreters and Translators Association (NITA) and NITA will have a table (with information about our group) where we will spend quite a bit of time. Look for the Welcome to Las Vegas sign and stop by and grab some candy!
- Evening events. We've confirmed our attendance at both the Spanish division's dinner (on Friday, at Casa Rio River House) and the German division (at the Rio Plaza, second floor, on Thursday), so you will be sure to catch us there!
- Late night. Yes, we've been known to enjoy a nice glass of wine or a fancy cocktail at the hotel bar to wrap up the evening.
We look forward to seeing you in San Antonio!
8 comments:
I will arrive to San Antonio on Thursday morning.
Can't wait to attend "Assertive, not aggressive" presentation!
I will also go to the Spanish dinner.
So many opportunities to see you!
@Anabella: How exciting! We definitely need to toast your fantastic recent success. :) Cannot wait. Safe travels.
Thank you for helping us spread the word about the Newbies and Buddies event, Judy! Although all the kudos go to Helen Eby and Jamie Hartz for their hard work on this, I wanted to thank you as the third member of the Student Involvement Committee – and because I’m sure Helen and Jamie are frantically working on the final details before the big day tomorrow! I stayed home, holding the fort, as I’m six weeks away from meeting our second child, but I’m living vicariously through all of you, conference attendees! Have a wonderful time in San Antonio! Can’t wait to hear all about it!
@Daniela: Thanks for your lovely note, and how great that you were involved as well. Many thanks for making this happen. The event was fantastic indeed, and we think it is just a fantastic idea in general. We really enjoyed spending time with our newbie, who is also a dear friend of mine. And we should already say congratulations -- keep us posted on baby news.
San Antonio, cool. It's been a LONG time since I was there. Hope you had time to remember the Alamo!
@EP: Dagy had not been in 20 years (I went last year) and we had a lot of fun. We only saw the Alamo from the outside, but we did brush up on our Mexican-American war history for sure.
Hello, Judy! I attended the ATA with my company Global Language Solutions. I tried downloading the PDF for the session "Assertive not Aggressive" but it doesn't work :( Would you mind sending me an email at viviana@globallanguages.com ? Thank you so much!
@Viviana: Thanks for the message! We already exchanged e-mails, and it's nice to hear that you are all set with access to the slides. Thanks for coming to the presentation.
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