CREEES Professional Resources Forum

Deadline: December 8, 2019

Applications for ALTA’s 2020 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program are open! Find out more here, including eligibility requirements, and apply by December 8, 2019.

The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The mentorship duration is nine months. The emerging translator is expected to choose a project that can be completed in that time, and they will only be advised on that particular project. ALTA’s Emerging Translator Mentorship Program was founded by former ALTA board member Allison M. Charette. 

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

All mentors and mentees meet via video conference at the beginning of their mentorship in February, and continue their work through individual meetings during the rest of the mentorship year, either in person, over Skype, or by phone. A minimum of six meetings is expected for the course of the program. The mentorship will conclude with a presentation of the mentee’s work in a reading at the annual ALTA conference in the fall. ALTA’s mentees also have the option to take part in our “First Look” program, which allows participating magazine and book publishers to be the first to read excerpts of the translations mentees have worked on throughout their mentorship, for possible publication. The award covers ALTA conference registration, as well as travel to the conference location and on-site accommodations, up to $1500.

Send your questions to Kelsi Vanada, ALTA’s Program Manager, at kelsi@literarytranslators.org.

Event Date: December 5, 2019 | 3-5pm | Online

Good afternoon! We would like to invite you to join the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for an online forum discussion: Indigenous Studies Forum. The forum will be held on December 5, 2019 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm CST. This forum seeks to raise awareness of current projects and trends in scholarly communication in indigenous studies. Areas of focus include cultural preservation, digitization, digital humanities, language revitalization, and innovative research methods in teaching and learning environments. We are inviting you to participate in these discussions.

Panelists will include:

·         Medeia Csoba DeHass | Des Moines Area Community College & University of Northern Iowa

·         Veronica Denison | Kansas State University

·         Joe Lenkart | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

·         Ryan Sullivant | Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

·         Loriene Roy | University of Texas at Austin

To join this forum discussion, register at: https://forms.gle/mtFpRKt76iEdQPq76. We look forward to seeing you!

Event Date: December, 3, 2019 | 11am | Online

A 2018 Chronicle of Higher Education special report on educating the new generation of students revealed several striking features of Gen Z’s expectations and preferences as students. This webinar will examine the profile of the Gen Z learner (born 1996-2015) against the backdrop of the proficiency-oriented classroom and suggest ways that instructors at the secondary and post-secondary level can make their programs more relevant, attractive, and meaningful to our newest cohorts of learners. Based on the findings of the Chronicle report, the webinar will also discuss the place of international education and study abroad programs in the next decade of the 2020s. 

About the presenter:
Thomas Jesús Garza is Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Director of the Texas Language Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also currently the president of the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). He teaches courses on the Russian language, language pedagogy, and contemporary Russian culture. He has received numerous prizes for undergraduate and graduate teaching. He has published numerous language textbooks, book chapters and articles on Russian language and culture, and online resources on language and culture. His current research is on reverse design and intensive language instruction, and on comparative portraits of machismo in contemporary Russian and Latino popular cultures. 

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