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, …
Panel Discussion on Languages of Lesser Diffusion
By: Amal Alaboud On March 18, 2019, I was invited to attend a panel discussion entitled “Languages of Lesser Diffusion” sponsored by the New York Circle of Translators (NYCT). The panel was composed of four …
The February 16 2019 ATA Law Seminar
By: Bethany Sullivan I graduated from UConn in 2013 with a degree in Latin American Studies and Spanish. I wanted to do something with language and to be able to travel as much as possible, …
Globalization and the Vanishing Voices of the World
By Mourine Breiner Language extinction is a slow but sure process. My interest in this topic was rekindled after I watched a performance of Lena Herzog’s “Last Whispers” at the Kennedy Center in DC on …