Sponsorships

The Gentzler Translation Center uses some proceeds and fundraising efforts to support faculty, students, and university activities related to translation, language, and cross-cultural understanding. Below is a selection of some of the activities we've supported since 2011.

2026

Lecture by Llúcia Martín, "Feminine Spirituality: Valencian Writer Isabel de Villena and her Vita Christi" (March 27), with the Spanish and Portuguese Program

Nataly Kelly. Inaugural Gentzler-Isenberg Multidisciplinary Diem Executive-in-Residence (March 31), with the Isenberg School of Management 

"Lives in Translation: Elizabeth Lowe and Suzanne Jill Levine" (April 16), part of the "Beyond Borders: Literary Translation Reading Series", with the Chancellor's Community, Democracy, and Dialogue working group and the MFA for Poets & Writers

2026 Seal of Biliteracy Award Ceremony (May 9), with the Bilingual Hub

	Annual Translation and Interpreting Conference - New England Translators Association (NETA)
	Translat Library - University of Massachusetts Libraries and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona        Read more

2025

101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (March 19-21), with the Five College Consortium

Mikołaj Grynberg: Jewish Poland Today on Page and Screen with Mikołaj Grynberg and his translator Sean Gaspar Bye (October 7), with the Yiddish Book Center

Lecture by Gabi Martínez, The Last House Before the Sea: One Year on the Ebro Delta (November 20), with the Spanish and Portuguese Program

Annual Translation and Interpreting Conference - New England Translators Association (NETA)
	Hot Chocolate Run - for Safe Passage
Translat Library - University of Massachusetts Libraries and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

2024

The Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the Indigenous STEM Conference (April 11-13)

Mary Ann Newman's Workshop on Translating Joan Fuster's 'Final Judgements' (April 16), with the Spanish and Portuguese Program and Institut Ramon Llul

Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies - Comparative Literature Program (April 20-21)

The Fall 2024 Literary Translation Conference of the American Literary Translators Association (October 25-28).

Iván Monalisa and Hannah Kauders' "Vivir en traducción: Spanglish, translingüismo y otras fronteras" Talk/Workshop (November 8) in partnership with CMASS.

Lana Bastašíć's Reading of Catch the Rabbit and Conversation (November 20), with the Comparative Literature Department, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the English Department and Russian, Eurasian, and Polish Studies

2023

Performance of THE NEW IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: MUSIC INSPIRED BY CONVERSATIONS WITH DREAMERS by Professor Felipe Salles

2022

Two workshops (1, 2) led by Dr. Peter Bush, "Reading and Writing Víctor Català"

18th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society

2021

Student registration, New England Translators Association Conference

Sant Jordi Translation Contest - Catalan Studies

Graduate student interpreter registration, "How to Provide Language Services from a Gender Perspective" webinar by the American Translators Association

28th Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival - Interpreters provided and supported by the UMass Amherst Translation Center

Ethics of Translation and Interpreting - Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies - Comparative Literature Program

2020

Learn to craft your own solo performance with Elaine Del Valle - Latinx Theater & Performance - Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program

Lecture by Elaine Del Valle, "Brownsville Bred" - Latinx Theater & Performance - Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program

International Translation Day 2020 - A Conversation with Professors Esther Allen, Enrique García, and José Manuel Prieto - UMass Amherst Translation Center

Lecture by Octavio Solís, "Mother Road" + playwriting workshop - Latinx Theater & Performance - Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program

2019

MACLS (Mujeres activas en letras y cambio social) Summer Institute, "Sin fronteras ni barreras: Mujeres activas and the Unmaking/Remaking of a New World"

Sant Jordi Translation Contest - Catalan Studies

11th Catalan Film Festival - Catalan Studies

Juniper Literary Festival - MFA for Poets and Writers

V Latin American Film Festival - Spanish and Portuguese Studies

2018

Crossroads Conference VI: Conflicts, Contrasts, and Contradictions - Comparative Literature Program

Student registration, New England Translators Association Conference

Poetry Performance by Angélica Liddell, "Los deseos en Amherst / Desires in Amherst"

Theaters of Marginality - Second Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network

10th Catalan Film Festival - Catalan Studies

2017

Conversation with Dr. Peter Bush

Catalan Culture Week - Catalan Studies

2016

Catalan Culture Week - Catalan Studies

Book presentation by Dr. Sara Kippur, Writing It Twice: Self-Translation and the Making of a World Literature in French

Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies - Comparative Literature Program

2015

Lecture by Patricia Gualinga and Juan Carlos Grijalva

International Shakespeare Conference

Flamenco group - Mount Holyoke College

Lecture by Dr. Rafael Y. Schögler

2014

Lecture by Dr. Esther Allen, "The Perils of Polyglossia"

Lecture by Dr. Peter Bush, "Birth of a Writer: Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook"

Lecture by Dr. Hugh Hazelton, "Montreal's New Latinité: Spanish-French Connections in a Trilingual City"

2013

Lecture by Dr. Charles Hatfield, "Vicente Rocafuerte (1783-1847): Translator and Revolutionary"

Lecture by Dr. Alicia Borinsky, "Where are you from? The Poetics of Elsewhere"

2011

Lecture by Margaret Carson, "Sergio Chejfec's My Two Worlds and the 'Delirious Branching Effects' of Translation"