On Tuesday, September 29, at 7:00 p.m., Ambassador Thomas A. Miller, former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Greece, will speak at Irvine. His topic is “The Obama Administration Foreign Policy, Challenges and Opportunities – a Practitioner’s Perspective.” Download this flyer for additional details.
Day: September 23, 2009
Carlos Prieto to Speak at MIIS on Friday
The Monterey Institute of International Studies will host world-renowned cellist, author and raconteur Carlos Prieto for a special public lecture on Friday, September 25 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Irvine Auditorium.
In addition to performing with many of the world’s most widely known and respected classical musicians and orchestras, Prieto has written seven books: Russian Letters, Around the World With the Cello, From the USSR to Russia, The Adventures of a Cello (translated into English, Russian and Portuguese), Paths and Images of Music, 5000 Years of Words, and Throughout China With the Cello. His extraordinarily diverse background includes degrees in engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a long-standing interest in and affinity for Russian culture and language. In January 1998, Strings magazine declared Prieto a “Renaissance Man” and extolled “his astoundingly rich life as a performer, author, globe-trotter and tireless promoter of Latin composers.”
Prieto’s appearance at the Institute will feature a lecture addressing his experiences as a self-identified “citizen of the world,” a question and answer session, and a brief musical performance.
T&I Professor publishes new book
Congratulations to Visiting Professor Anthony Pym, whose new book, Exploring Translation Theories, has just been released. An event is being planned to celebrate Anthony’s work, but in the meantime, learn more about it here.
Found in Translation: the latest in T&I research
MIIS faculty, staff and students are invited to visit the world of translation and interpreting research in an ongoing series of talks that bein next Tuesday, September 29.
The series provides a forum to share and discuss recent developments in research on the practice and training of translators, interpreters and localizers. All sessions will be interpreted by Practicum students.
September 29 (Tue) 12:15 – 1:45 @Irvine
“Experimenting on/with students – applications of process research to translator training” – Anthony Pym
There is a growing body of research on what happens in the translator’s brain. The challenge is now to find ways to apply that research to the ways translators are trained. One way is to conduct simple experiments in the translation class, not so that students become guinea pigs but to help them discover things about their own translation processes.
This talk will present the results of experiments conducted in my classes in Monterey in 2008 and 2009, dealing with language-specific translation norms, the impact of different translation instructions, the use of human-revised machine translation output, and the speed variable.
Students who have been experimented upon are very welcome to attend, as are instructors who might like to experiment.
October 27 (Tue) 12:15 – 1:45 @Irvine
“Translation and Globalization: the Spanish-language translation publishing market” – María Sierra Córdoba Serrano
November 17 (Tue) 12:15 – 1:45 @Irvine
“Building Corpora for Translator Education: methodology and applications” – Wallace Chen
Please contact Kayoko Takeda (kayoko.takeda@exchange.miis.edu) for details.
MIIS Photo Archive on Flickr
Good News!! There is now an archive of MIIS campus photos on Flickr!
Over the past year Jenny Manseau, with the help of a few colleagues, has created a photo archive for the Monterey Institute of International Studies. We currently have over 2,500 photographs on our Flickr site. This account has been purchased by the Recruiting department and this is the official account for the Monterey Institute of International Studies (there are several Flickr accounts on campus that use a similar name and profile picture, but please keep in mind this is the official site). If there are photographs on campus that need to be added to this account please contact Jenny at miisphotos@gmail.com.
To access the site you must Create a FREE account and request to be a contact of MIIS_Photos. We have set the account to private so not just anyone online can use these photographs. Many of these photos do not have photo release forms so we need to be careful about who can access to them. If you have questions on whether or not you can/should use these in any publication or on the website please contact Jenny.
Once you are approved as a contact, you may view the photo stream, view images in all sizes, download the different sizes, view/add tags, and see/add comments about the photographs (waiver forms, location, subjects etc.). You will not see any of this information unless you have been approved. The photographs have been “tagged” to help with the searching process. When you are using the search feature please be sure to search “your photo stream” and not every one’s photographs. Jenny will continually be adding photographs and tags to help with this process, maintaining this account and approving requests to become contacts.
McCleery leads conference panel on “Making Basic Services Reach the Poor”
Robert McCleery was a featured speaker at the Second Conference on Integrated Social Policies in Egypt, July 4-5, 2009 in Cairo. The conference was organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity, and was attended by that Minister (H.E. Aly Moselhy), the Minister of Housing, National Democratic Party rising star Gamal Mobarak, representatives of other parties and ministries, representatives of domestic and international NGOs, and other foreign experts. Prof. McCleery headed the second session: Making Basic Services Reach the Poor. He presented a refined and targeted version of the “Development as Connectivity” story, first presented with Prof. De Paolis at the Faculty Research brown bag series, organized by Prof. Kardam, last spring. The presentation also drew on their joint research, presented in a consulting report to the United Nations Development Program, New York, titled: Making Infrastructure Work for the Poor.