ATA Annual Conference and SPD Professional Development Handouts and Presentations

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ATA 65th Annual Conference, Portland, OR
October 30-November 2, 2024
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
Cecilia Lipovsek
(SPD Distinguished Speaker)		 (046) Promoting Our Services to Intermediaries and/or Direct Clients: Two Mirrored Conversations [Download here]
(096) Connecting the Dots: Specializing in Diplomatic Interpreting in the 21st Century [Download here]
Danielle Maxson (109) The Influence of Catholicism in Spanish into English Translation [Download here]
Ana Salotti (123) La traductora en su laberinto: Creating a Translation Style Guide in Spanish for an International Non-Governmental Organization [Download here]
Milly Golia (088) Subjective Subjunctive? [Download here]
Silvana Debonis (012) AI vs. the English into Spanish Financial Translator [Download here]
ATA 63rd Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
October 12-15, 2022
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
María Marta García Negroni (SPD Distinguished Speaker) (014) Inclusive Language in Spanish and Subjective Positioning [Download here](081) On Quotative Uses of the Conditional in Spanish: The Case of Journalistic and Scientific Conditional [Download here]
Angélica Ramírez (137) Today’s Professional Subtitling: A Combination of Human Intervention and Artificial Intelligence [Download here]
Fernando Cuñado y Ruth Gámez (095) Terms of Art, Legal Jargon, and Those Phrases that Drive Legal Translators Mad [Download here] [Download here]
Izaskun Orkwis (123) Forget about False Cognates — Real Cognates Are a Headache Too! [Download here]
María Baker (067) Frequent Errors in Health Care Interpreting and Translation (English to Spanish) and How to Avoid Them [Download here]
María C. Propato and Tony Rosado (108) Interpreting International Arbitrations Remotely: Between Conference and Legal Work [Download here]
Nora Díaz (099) Optimize Your Space: What Good Ergonomics Can Do for You [Download here]
Pablo Mugüerza (097) A 2022 Medical Terminology Update [Download here](110) Language and COVID: An Overview of Pandemic-Related Medical Translation [Download here]
Silvana Debonis (042) Where Technology Meets Finance [Download here]
ATA 61st Annual Conference, Online
October 21-24, 2020
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
Sofía Rodríguez (SPD Distinguished Speaker) El desafío de la concordancia en la corrección [Download here]El gerundio español: pautas avanzadas para la corrección [Download here]
ATA 60th Annual Conference, Palm Springs, CA
October 23-26, 2019
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
Pablo Fernández Moriano Deadpool 2: Translating an R-Rated Film from English into Castilian Spanish [Download here]
Robin Ragan Interpreting at a Detention Center for Asylum Seekers
a) Recommendations for Volunteering and Supporting Asylum Seekers at the Border & in Detention (Handout 1) [Download here]
b) Practice script to demonstrate common dilemmas interpreters face in this setting (Handout 2) [Download here]
Bridget Hylak and Loren Lulushi Management Tools for LSCs and LDs: An Aerial View (in Spanish) [Download here]
Julie Burns and Tracy Young Heritage Speakers in Health Care Interpreting: A Case Study in Virtual Training [Download here]
Madeline Ríos Translating Latin American Case Law [Download here]
Marta Sánchez A Translational Turn: Latinx Literature in Spanish Arrives (Handout) [Download here]
María del Carmen Propato Transcreation: Creative Writing and Translation—Honing (and Challenging) Your Translation Skills with Marketing and Advertising Texts [Download here]
ATA 59th Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
October 24-27, 2018
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
María Barros Traducción idiomática [Download here]
Kathryn German Translating Spanish Cardiology Reports [Download here]
Carol Shaw Mix-and-Match: Differences and Similarities between Latin American and United States Public Education Systems [Download here]
In Miami Spring Into Action, Miami, FL
March 16-18, 2018
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
Alberto Gómez Font (Palabras Mayores)
Xosé Castro (Palabras Mayores)
  • Consejos de informática productiva para comunicadores y traductores [Download here]
  • Introducción a la redacción y traducción para SEO, internet blogs y redes sociales [Download here]
Antonio Martín (Palabras Mayores)
Jorge de Buen (Palabras Mayores)
  • Las comillas y las comillas inglesas [Download here]
  • Las comillas y las comillas inglesas: historia, usos, reglas y criterios. [Download here]
ATA 58th Annual Conference, Washington, DC
October 25-28, 2017
PRESENTER PRESENTATION
Pablo Mugüerza
  • Traducción de protocolos de ensayos clínicos Parte I [Download here]
  • Traducción de protocolos de ensayos clínicos Parte II [Download here]
Juan Baquero Subtitling Cultural References: a matter of strategies [Download here]
María Barros Cuando sobran las palabras [Download here]