We Support
The Translation Center uses proceeds and the results of other fundraising efforts to support faculty, students, and university activities related to translation, language, and cross-cultural understanding. In the recent past, we have been a proud sponsor of the following activities:
2024
Supporting the University of Massachusetts' Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the Indigenous STEM Conference April 11-13th, 2024.
2023
Supported the performance of THE NEW IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: MUSIC INSPIRED BY CONVERSATIONS WITH DREAMERS by Professor Felipe Salles.
mOthertongue: a multilingual journal of the arts - Comparative Literature Program
2022
Two Workshops (1, 2) on Reading and Writing Víctor Català starring Peter Bush
Supported the 18th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society.
Metamorphoses: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
2021
Supported graduate student participation in the New England Translators Association Conference
Sant Jordi Translation Contest - Catalan Studies
Supported graduate student interpreters to attend the "How to Provide Language Services from a Gender Perspective" webinar by the American Translators Association.
Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival (28th season) - Interpreters provided and supported by the UMass Translation Center
Ethics of Translation and Interpreting - Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies - Comparative Literature Program
Metamorphoses: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
2020
Learn to craft your own solo performance with Elaine Del Valle - Latinx Theater & Performance - Spanish and Portuguese Studies UMass Amherst
Lecture by Elaine Del Valle, "Brownsville Bred" - Latinx Theater & Performance - Spanish and Portuguese Studies UMass Amherst
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 UMass Amherst
Metamorphoses: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
mOthertongue: a multilingual journal of the arts - Comparative Literature Program
2019
Metamorphoses: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
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
Juniper Literary Festival - MFA for Poets and Writers
mOthertongue: a multilingual journal of the arts - Comparative Literature Program
V Latin American Film Festival
2018
Metamorphoses: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
Crossroads Conference VI: Conflicts, Contrasts, and Contradictions - Comparative Literature Program
Sponsor students to attend the New England Translators Association Conference
Angélica Liddell, "Los deseos en Amherst / Desires in Amherst," Poetry Performance
11th Catalan Film Festival - Catalan Studies
mOthertongue: a multilingual journal of the arts - Comparative Literature Program
Theaters of Marginality - Second Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network
10th Catalan Film Festival - Catalan Studies
2017
A Conversation with Dr. Peter Bush
Catalan Culture Week - Catalan Studies
Metamorphosis: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
mOthertongue: a multilingual journal of the arts - Comparative Literature Program
2016
mOthertongue: a multilingual journal of the arts - Comparative Literature Program
Metamorphoses: a journal of literary translation - Journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation
Catalan Culture Week - Catalan Studies
Dr. Sara Kippur, Presentation of her book Writing It Twice: Self-Translation and the Making of a World Literature in French
Graduate Student Conference in 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"