This year marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the New York Circle of Translators. On September 28th we will celebrate this milestone with a symposium featuring a keynote address by industry leader Renato …
Interview with Founding Member Alex Gross
Translator, author and activist Alex Gross is a true polyglot, speaking French, German, Italian and Spanish fluently and translating from all of them. His language abilities were honed with twelve years of residence and study …
Important Elements of a Multi-Language Video Subtitling Project
by: Andrea F. González Ocando and Deborah Avril Lockhart Multi-Language Video Subtitling is a type of audiovisual translation often referred to as “subordinate translation.” This is because the translation process is constrained by specific technical …
Meet the Translator: Renata Stein
Renata Stein is an ATA-accredited German to English translator, museum curator and multi-media artist. A native of Berlin, she came to the US in 1983 as a visiting scholar after having finished her Master’s Degree …
The Machines are Coming! A Look at Machine Translation with Jon Ritzdorf
By: Kate Deimling On May 20, 2019, Jon Ritzdorf gave a presentation on machine translation at the NYCT’s monthly meeting. Ritzdorf, a long-time friend of the Circle, is the Senior Solutions Architect and Machine Translation …
Women in Translation Month: Two Works by Natalia Ginzburg
On September 16, 2019 the translator Minna Zallman Proctor spoke at the bookstore 192 Books about her new translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s novel Happiness as Such, which was recently published by New Directions Press. Also …
Letter from the Editor
Greetings to all our readers. I hope you enjoy the latest edition of the Gotham in which we explore a wide range of topics of interest to translators and interpreters. Thanks go to Amal Alaboud, …