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Continuing Education Programs in Publishing, the Humanities, Arts, Producing, Design, Writing, and Translation.

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MS in Professional Writing faculty receive NYU SPS 2019 awards for Teaching Excellence and Outstanding Service

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Dr. Matthew Vaughan, Adjunct Instructor, and Dr. Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Academic Director & Clinical Assistant Professor, will be receiving NYU SPS awards for CALA this year. Both faculty members teach in the fully online MS in Professional Writing program. 

Dr. Vaughan is receiving the 2019 Teaching Excellence Award, recognizing the exceptional dedication of faculty members who have demonstrated profound concern for student growth and development. Dr. Rodriguez Kerr is receiving the 2019 Outstanding Service Award, recognizing faculty members who have effectively and steadfastly contributed to the goals and mission of the School and University.

Please join us in congratulating Kristine and Matthew for the school-wide recognition of their contributions!

To learn more about the MS in Professional Writing program at NYU SPS, please visit: sps.nyu.edu/mspw  

Educational Researcher and MSPW Adjunct Faculty, Katherine Newhouse’s Latest Conference Presentations

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Doctoral candidate Katherine Newhouse co-presented, “Come co-produce with us! Attending to multimodal embodiments with court-involved youth” at last month’s Penn Ethnography Forum as part of the Reimagining Futures Research team. She will also be presenting “Small Space, Big Moments: Understanding spatialized experiences of youth and adults in restricted educational settings” at the Invisible College conference in conjunction with the American Education Research Association in April.

Both presentations build from her research, which focuses on the experiences of youth who are receiving special education services and/or youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system. Taking up a qualitative research methodology, Katherine is studying educational spaces from within the special education and juvenile justice system to better understand how they are created and maintained by youth and adults. Katherine brings her commitment and deep understanding of research methods to her adjunct teaching with the MS in Professional Writing program, in particular, the fall elective course “Writing and Social Science Research.”

To learn more about the MS in Professional Writing program at NYU SPS, please visit: www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts-and-writing/academics/ms-in-professional-writing.html

Tomorrow’s Staged Reading of ‘Good People’ Has Been Cancelled

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It is with our deepest regret that we must cancel the staged reading of Good People scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, March 21, 2019, at Scandinavia House.

Unfortunately, an actor had to cancel and we were unable to find a suitable replacement. The good news is that this event will be rescheduled for the Fall semester. We will be sure to notify you via email with updated event details.

We want to thank you for your interest in this event and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this cancellation may have caused. 

We hope to see you at another CALA event in the future. 

Can Xue’s Love in the New Millennium, Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, Longlisted for 2019 Man Booker International Prize

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The 2019 Man Booker International Prize longlist has been announced! Awarded annually to one translated work of fiction published in the UK and Ireland, the prize uniquely honors both the original authors and the translators who have brought their stories to English readers. Among the notably diverse longlist—dominated this year by women writers and small publishers—is Can Xue’s Love in the New Millennium, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, Academic Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of the MS in Translation program. 
 
Since it was published last year, Love in the New Millennium has been featured in Harper’s Magazine and Lithub and was praised by the Man Booker judges as, “a meditative experience that opens up a fever dream of contemporary Chinese writing.”
 
The shortlist will be announced April 9th and the winner on May 21st. 
 
Please join us in congratulating Annelise on this wonderful achievement! 
 

Interested in furthering or pursuing a career in translation?

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

The Guardian Article: Is the Era of Artificial Speech Translation Upon Us?

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This week, The Guardian published their latest contribution to a debate that has surrounded the translation industry for years: is technology making human translators obsolete? The article focuses specifically on advancements in artificial speech technologies like the new Google Home interpreting function and Waverly Labs’ Pilot earpiece, which can translate two users’ conversations in real time or translate speech in a single user’s surroundings.  Despite their potential for application in a wide variety of personal and professional settings, it is clear that these devices are far from providing a substitute for real-life translators. As writer Marek Kohn concludes,

“When machine translation becomes a ubiquitous commodity product, human language skills will command a premium. The person who has a language in their head will always have the advantage over somebody who relies on a device, in the same way that somebody with a head for figures has the advantage over somebody who has to reach for a calculator. Though the practical need for a lingua franca will diminish, the social value of sharing one will persist. And software will never be a substitute for the subtle but vital understanding that comes with knowledge of a language. That knowledge will always be needed to pick the nuances from the noise.”

Read the full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/17/is-the-era-of-artificial-speech-translation-upon-us

Interested in furthering or pursuing a career in translation?

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

Registration is also open for our five-course, online Certificate in Translation Industry Essentials! This comprehensive certificate—available for all language pairs—will provide an overview of translation concepts and techniques, as well as hands-on training in the translation of documents from a wide range of fields: financial, commercial, legal, and other topics pertinent to today’s market.

MS in Professional Writing student, Tony Davis, publishes book ranked #25 on Amazon in Atheism and #130 for all books on Religion

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MS in Professional Writing student, Tony Davis, published his first book God Loves You: Some Restrictions May Apply (and Many Other Christian Dilemmas) earlier this year and it quickly rose in rank on Amazon to #25 in Atheism and #130 for all books on Religion.  

In his book, Tony recounts his personal journey from devout, fundamentalist Southern Baptist, to skeptic questioning what he saw as the most troubling aspects of a literal interpretation of the Bible and, ultimately, to outspoken unbeliever with a strong conviction in the importance of religious liberties.  Most important for Tony is the idea that these liberties extend to everyone, including non-believers who wish to remain free of religious influence, be it from the Church, the government, or others. Written over a 10-year period from 2008 to 2018, and published while Tony is completing his MS in Professional Writing coursework, Tony’s book was drafted across twenty-five countries and four continents, including an active combat zone, as well as a number of states in the US. Congratulations Tony on this impressive work.

To learn more about the MS in Professional Writing program at NYU-SPS please visit: http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts-and-writing/academics/ms-in-professional-writing.html

Special Event: A Reading of GOOD PEOPLE by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by John Erman

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Please join us for a special event on Thursday, March 21st, from 10am-1pm at Scandinavia House. Acclaimed Broadway, film, and TV actors will read David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony Award-nominated play Good People, directed by NYUSPS CALA instructor John Erman. 

Synopsis (via StageAgent): Life in Boston’s Southie neighborhood is no joke for single mother Margaret Walsh. Fired from her job, facing eviction, she doesn’t know whether to risk it all on a game of bingo, or join a drunken old classmate on a warm bit of sidewalk. Will she catch a break from the cranky young manager at the Dollar Store or the landlady with a craft business selling googly-eyed rabbits? Or the man from her past, now a successful doctor, who left town at a crucial moment long ago? With wry humour and astonishing realism, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire creates both a loving portrait of his hometown and a widely relatable tale of socio-economic struggle. In the world of Good People, we see that very few can afford to be as good as they think they are, but acts of sacrifice and gestures of kindness come at the most surprising moments and from the most unexpected of sources.

Featured actors: Johanna Day, Josh Hamilton, Joyce Van Patten, Zachary Fine, Crystal Dickenson, and Jenny Morris.

Thursday, March 21st
10am-1pm
Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CALAGood

ATA Newsletter Features Translation Pedagogy Article by CALA Instructor Ana Salotti

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CALA Translation instructor Ana Salotti has been featured in the Spring edition of Deep Focus, a quarterly newsletter published by the American Translator’s Association. Her article, “Teaching an Online Language-Neutral AVT Course: Mission Impossible?,”  provides an inside look into the pedagogical approach, teaching outcomes, and challenges faced in her first online, language-neutral Audiovisual Translation (AVT) course in our Certificate in Translation Industry Essentials. 

Through critical reflection on her audiovisual translation educator practice, Salotti points to areas of improvement both in the execution of her own course and in the advancement of AVT studies more generally.  The lack of degree programs specializing in AVT is evidence that the US still has some catching up to do in the field, but the growing number of postgraduate courses has proven to be a promising start. “We still have a long way to go,” she concludes, “but we’re getting closer.”

Read the article here: https://ata-divisions.org/AVD/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Deep_Focus_Issue2_Mar19.pdf

Interested in furthering or pursuing a career in translation?

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

Registration is also open for our five-course, online Certificate in Translation Industry Essentials! This comprehensive certificate—available for all language pairs—will provide an overview of translation concepts and techniques, as well as hands-on training in the translation of documents from a wide range of fields: financial, commercial, legal, and other topics pertinent to today’s market.

NYU’s Prison Education Program Hosting Carceral Crisis Speaker Series This Spring

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The Carceral Crisis speaker series at NYU will run Feb 13th – May 8th, 2019 and will take place in the evenings at 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor.

The Carceral Crisis speaker series is part of the spring semester course on Carceral Crisis: Race, Class and Punishment in America taught by postdoctoral fellow Zhandarka Kurti in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU. Throughout the semester, Professor Kurti will be hosting a series of speakers allowing students to reflect on historical roots of America’s carceral crisis, its collateral consequences and current reform efforts.

February 13th @ 6:30pm: Rikers Island and the History of Carceral Reform 
Jarrod Shanahan will be presenting from his forthcoming book (2020) Rikers: A Social History of New York City’s Island of the Poor, which he is co-authoring with colleague Jayne Mooney.

March 6th @ 5:30pm: Crime and Punishment in America
An evening with Tony Platt (2019) Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in America

March 27th @ 6:30pm: Mass Incarceration and the Limits of Police Reform
Alex Vitale will be presenting from his book (2017) End of Policing

April 17th @ 6:30pm: The Carceral Complex in the Lives of Working-Class Youth of Color in NYC
Zhandarka Kurti will be presenting on young people’s experiences with criminal courts and probation and current reform efforts.

April 24th @ 6:30pm: Incarceration and Debt
Alumni from NYU’s Prison Education Program will present on their research on the relationship between incarceration and debt.

May 8th @ 6:30pm: Reform or Abolish?
No New Jails Coalition presents on their efforts to fight against local jail expansion in NYC.

These events are open to the public.

Sponsored by NYU’s Prison Education Program and the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis.

Facebook event page, here.

This Spring, CALA will be offering several courses that highlight complex issues of class, race, and justice:

LITR1-CE9325   Plays with a Social Conscience
LITR1-CE9022   Memoirs with a Social Conscience
HIST1-CE9000   Race, Criminal Justice, and the Constitution