Event
Film Screening “Latin American Cocoa: Fair Trade?” | March 19, 12 pm ET
Lecture “Who Rules Mexico Today?” | April 11 at 2 p.m. ET
¡Practica tu español! / Practice your Spanish! | UMass Boston Campus Center
NETA ACADEMIC DIVISION – Call for Papers – New England Translators Association Annual Conference
The New England Translators Association (NETA) will be holding its annual conference on Saturday, April 27th, 2024.
The NETA Academic Division, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Boston, welcomes panels and presentations proposed and organized by professors or students, as well as professor panel discussions and roundtables.
This is an invaluable opportunity for translation and interpreting trainers to share their expertise and together advance the field of translation studies. It is also a chance for students interested in translation and interpreting studies to present their work, interact with working translators and interpreters, and explore the profession.
Submission deadline: March 8, 2024
Questions? Email courses@umbtranslation.org
Program Graduate Marko De La Garza ’20 at the 2023 Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium
We’re pleased to announce that our program graduate Marko De La Garza will be presenting at the 2023 Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium on June 2nd. His presentation is titled “How AI Web Development and Translation Programs Are Impacting the Global Spanish Community and the Spanish Language” (Zoom).
To attend:
- RSVP: https://bit.ly/RSVP-Observatorio
- or email: info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu
The Cervantes Institute at Harvard University organizes its eighth annual symposium, with the general theme “Spanish in/for Science and Technology,” and an attractive program including two keynote lectures by prestigious researchers: Roger Fu (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University) and Pilar Manchón (Senior Director of Engineering, AI Research Strategy, at Google Research). The conference will also feature a range of experts from the fields of Spanish language and Hispanic cultures, as well as from the sciences, who will share unpublished papers covering a variety of topics related to the general theme chosen this year.
- June 1st Keynote Lecture (1pm, ET): “Las estrellas a través de las araucarias: La etnoastronomía mapuche-pewenche” by Roger Fu (Harvard University)
- June 2nd Keynote Lectutre (1pm, ET): “La importancia de la lengua española en la IA Generativa” by Pilar Manchón (Google Research)
See attached program for further details: simposio_programa_2023_-_vf_2