ATA 2014: Minutes of JLD Annual Meeting

The minutes of our Annual Meeting at the ATA conference are now available.

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Minutes of the JLD Annual Meeting 2014

American Translators Association, 55th Annual Conference

Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers,

Chicago, IL

Thursday November 6^th, 16:45. – 17:45

Division Officers present: James Patrick, Nadine Edwards (Rec.)

Division members present: 60 (?) including 25 newcomers

·     Meeting called to order at 16:48 by Division Administrator

·     2014 Meeting agenda read and accepted

·     2013 Annual Meeting minutes accepted

·     Overview

o   JLD activities for the rest of ATA55

o   JLD committees’ activities in 2014

·     Welcome first time attendees, and new members

·     There will be elections for JLD officers (Division Administrator, Assistant Administrator) in 2015.

o   Call for volunteers for the Nominating Committee (see separate sheet)

·     Conference Planning

o   Thank you to last year’s volunteers! We were able to put together 8 strong sessions despite our recommendation for a DS being waitlisted.

o   Request for volunteers

o   Discussion – can we try again for sessions that were rejected?

o   Ideas (see separate sheet)

·     Networking Committee (“Entertainment Committee”)

o   Thank you to last year’s volunteers! This year we continued with the Newcomer’s Lunch (about 30 attendees) and project to have 75 attendees at dinner.

o   Ideas for next year? Morikawa Park and Museum

o   Does the style work? Let’s do a buffet style deal where people can move around and mingle (done this year at SUSHI TAIYO).

o   DA/ADA asks: We have had a surplus accumulating since the New York conference. What should we do?

§  Keep a surplus. Budget the event to produce a surplus, cap it and use the extra the following year for the additional event (Cliff Bender, H. Tsuchiya, S. Suloway).

·     Editorial Committee

o   Thank you to last year’s volunteers! Special thanks to Jim Davis on the Words and Kotoba series (our first).

o   New volunteers? (see separate sheet)

·     Comments /Announcements

o   JATINT – InterpretJAPAN - Interpreting for Tomorrow (29 November, Tokyo)

o   IJET26, York, England, June 2015

o   JAT 2014 Anthologies Available

o   The Japan Association of Translators has been working on

§  JAT Patent Translators workshop

§  JAT Patent SIG (you do not have to be a member of JAT), JATPAT SIG Wiki 0 questions to Cliff Bender in the mean time.

Meeting adjourned at 17:48.

JLD Annual Meeting 2014

Volunteer and Ideas List

·     Conference Planning – 2015 Miami Ideas

·       How to read engineering diagrams? (Tanya Pound先生)

·       Auto industry jargon, in house emails

·       KEIGO

o   Handling polite Japanese

o   Business Japanese (modern)

o   なんちゃった敬語

·       How is the Japanese language changing? Trends in Modern Japanese Usage

·       Hard to decipher documents

o   Tips and tricks to decipher handwriting/ hand written documents (MOCHIZUKI)

o   Handling Legalese, legal concepts, approach from the Meiji period and before??

o   Handling older documents, techniques (Ajani O., Masae)

§  Who did you use as resources?

§  TAISHO, HEIAN, SHOWA 時代

·       Drug development and launching in the USA (by Japanese companies)

·       Interpreting for the Aged and Demented (Shivani N.)

·       Sight translation as a means of improving skills (TANYA先生)

·       Making Good Choices (Jim Davis)

·     Conference Planning – Volunteers

o   Nathan Takase, Stephen Suloway, Shivani Nandi, Nicholas Sturtevant

·     Networking Committee (“Entertainment Committee”)

o   Ajani Oloye, Michael Yocum

o   Nicholas Sturtevant (2016, San Francisco)

·     Editorial Committee

o   Sarah Lindholm

o   Paul Koehler

o   Celine Browning