Day 3: 50th ATA Conference

More sessions, and too many at one time, making it hard to choose which ones to attend. Some offer significant added value in the attendance; some don’t (the corresponding paper on the Conference CD suffices).

And some may not be worth going to at all. I ran across an old acquaintance, Paul G., who mentioned that [...]

Day 2: 50th ATA Conference

The morning’s program was devoted to the annual meeting of all ATA members, which I decided to skip, as I have nothing valuable to add to the discussion.

My day began by walking to the Marriott from my base near the United Nations. Once in the vicinity of the conference hotel, I kept walking, past [...]

Day 1: 50th ATA Conference

I took the opportunity to sleep in this morning, and then to wander Manhattan’s streets in zig-zag fashion on my way from 2nd Avenue & 45th to Times Square. Although I grew up in Queens, just across the East River, I left New York more or less permanently a quarter century ago, so in a [...]

Day 0: 50th ATA Conference

The American Translators Association returned to New York, the city of its roots, for its 50th Annual Conference.

When I registered for the conference two weeks ago, all of the rooms set aside by the Marriott Marquis (just off Times Square and 45th) had been reserved, so after a few more sticker-shock-inducing calls to nearby hotels, [...]