American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association Conference

In 2010, NYU-SCPS hosted New York City’s first major scholarly association translation conference, attracting more than 100 participants from over 20 countries on five continents. The American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association’s fifth biennial conference, made possible by a grant of from the NYU Humanities Initiative and the support of NYU-SCPS, focused on the sociological aspects of translation and interpreting. Participants included university professors who perform research in translation and interpreting and who train translators and interpreters in academic programs, as well as sociologists and literary scholars from across the globe. Session topics included "English Novels in Persian, A Sociological Study of Literary Translation in Post-Revolution Iran," "Political Dissidents as Translators/Editors/Publishers," and "Just or Unjust: Interpreting in the Moral and Social Spaces of War."

"NYU-SCPS was honored by its selection as conference host," said Milena Savova, director of the M.S. in Translation program, and academic director for the School’s Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting programs. "Our selection once again highlighted how respected our program is among the other institutions that offer translation education."