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Trump in Translation

January 31, 2017 by dak7

Trump’s linguistic style which is characterized by disjointed syntax, run-on sentences, and frequent use of sarcasm, hyperbole, and colloquialism has proven to be challenging to translate into other languages.

As Ann Simmons in the Los Angeles Times explains, “President Trump’s language is an annoyance to some, a balm to others. But for one group, it’s something else — a professional hazard.”

The Los Angeles Times recently interviewed professional translator Bérengère Viennot who wrote a widely circulated article in Slate France about the difficulties of translating Trump’s speech. “You have to be able to get into someone’s mind in order to translate his speech and reformulate it into your own language. Trump is not easy to translate, first of all, because, most of the time, when he speaks he seems not to know quite where he’s going…..Trump’s vocabulary is limited, his syntax is broken; he repeats the same phrases over and over, forcing the translator to follow suit. If she does not, she betrays the spirit of the original piece. The translator has to translate the content and the style.”

The following articles describe in more detail and provide compelling examples of how translators in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, and sign language struggle to come to terms with Trump’s unique speaking and writing style.

Lost in Trumpslation: An Interview with Bérengère Viennot

How do you say ‘lowlife’ in another language? Trump’s tweets lose much in translation

Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages

Donald Trump confuses French translators with mixed-up speeches

Spring 2017 non-credit courses at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts

Foreign Languages

Translation

Interpreting

Faculty Highlights: More on BroadwayCon and “Walk of Art: Visionary Shoes” Opens Tonight!

January 23, 2017 by dak7

In this week’s CALA faculty news, Michael Zam will be a speaker at the BroadwayCon panel “From Page to Stage” on Friday at 3pm. Shows like War Paint, Fun Home, and Little Women were all inspired by books. The panel will discuss how books can spark the creative process, the challenges basing a new work on an existing title, and how producers and playwrights discern which books might adapt well for the stage. This semester at NYUSPS, Michael Zam is teaching Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Passion in the Movies , Writing the TV Pilot , and The Writer’s Room .

Broadway manager and instructor of the NYUSPS course The Business of Broadway, Mitch Weiss, will also be at BroadwayCon hosting the panel Producing 101 on the day-to-day responsibilities of producers and Love is Company (Managers!) on the role of mangers in the success of a show.

Finally, fashion historian Ya’ara Keydar Luft is curator of the exhibit “A Walk of Art: Visionary Shoes”, which opens tonight at the Parasol Projects Gallery at 208 Bowery. The opening reception will take place 6 to 9pm and the exhibit will be on display through February 13th daily from 11am to 7pm. The show focuses on conceptual, artistic, and extreme footwear and aims to reevaluate the occult power and mystery of shoes. Through more than 60 extraordinary examples, all created by the distinguished alumni and students of Israel’s most prestigious academy – the Bezalel Academy, A Walk Of Art treads the line between art and fashion. Luft teaches Fashion in Museums at NYUSPS.

BroadwayCon to Feature Two Panels Hosted by Mitch Weiss

January 18, 2017 by dak7

From January 27th through the 29th, The Jacob Javitz center will host BroadwayCon, the annual event that brings together Broadway fans with the shows they love and the people who bring them to life. This year, CALA instructor Mitch Weiss will moderate two panels:

Producing 101 – a lineup of Broadway producers discuss their day-to-day responsibilities, their passion projects, and their tough business decisions

Love is Company (Managers!) – From contracts to creative planning, managers are an important driving force of a successful environment for performers and crew.

Weiss is a Broadway manager who has worked on/with A Chorus Line, The Grapes of Wrath, Golden Child, Beauty and the Beast, Song of Jacob Zulu, Disenchanted!, Disney Theatricals-International, New York Shakespeare Festival, Big Apple Circus, and many more. He is the co-author of the definitive guide The Business of Broadway. In Spring 2017, he is teaching The Business of Broadway at NYUSPS, a course which introduces students to all the steps of putting on a show from rehearsals to promotional plans and includes a backstage tour of a hit Broadway show.

BroadwayCon 2017 will also feature artists from A Bronx Tale, Bandstand, Frozen, Hamilton, Significant Other, War Paint, In Transit, The Great Comet, Waitress, School of Rock, Newsies, Dear Evan Hansen, Once On This Island, Hedwig, Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, A New Brain, Wicked, Allegiance, Grease, Cinderella, If/Then, Something Rotten!, Rent, and many more. Tickets are available here.

Other Spring 2017 CALA courses of interest:

Arthur Miller: America’s Playwright

Acting in “the Zone”

Beginning Acting Bootcamp

Solo Performance in the 21st Century

Running Successful Performing Arts Organizations: 21st Century Challenges and Solutions

Fundraising for the Arts

Farewell to the Reader in Chief

January 11, 2017 by dak7

As we bid President Obama farewell, we also say goodbye to one of the most prodigious readers ever to hold the office of the presidency. The San Francisco Chronicle recently reflected on Obama’s legacy as “Reader in Chief.” But perhaps President Obama said it best himself:

“When I think about how I understand my role as citizen,” Obama said, “setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels.

“It has to do with empathy,” he continued. “It has to do with being comfortable with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there’s still truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that. And the notion that it’s possible to connect with some[one] else even though they’re very different from you.”

Explore President Obama’s reading list:

President Obama’s summer 2016 reading list: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/12/presidents-summer-reading-list

President Obama’s “essential” reads: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-reading-list/

Or take an NYUSPS literature course in spring 2017:

Brilliant Minds

Eyes on the Prize: Pulitzer-Winning Plays of the 21st Century

Kafka and Company: Art or Life

Literature and Medicine: Reading and Writing about Illness and Healing

Novels for a Changing America from the Great Gatsby to Bright Lights, Big City

Novels with a Social Conscience

Pots and Pens: Writing Women in Latin America

Reading the World: Selections from the New Yorker, Charlie Hebdo and Beyond

Shakespeare’s Histories: Richard II, Henry IV part 1, and Henry V

The Global Short Story

The Irish Short Story: Oscar Wilde to Edna O’Brien

The Novel Today

Women Fiction Writers

January 10th– Meet our Experts and Learn More About Spring 2017 Courses

January 6, 2017 by dak7

This NYUSPS information session on January 10th at 6pm will include information on CALA’s courses in the humanities, arts, filmmaking, producing, interior design, graphic design, motion graphics, 3D design/printing, writing, publishing, foreign languages, translation, and interpreting as well as courses across SPS–everything from hospitality and real estate to medical coding. Apart from learning more about NYUSPS Professional Pathways , the session will provide guidance on course selection and an opportunity to speak with our in-house experts about your professional and personal goals as they relate to course offerings.

What’s more, those who attend this session will qualify for a 10% noncredit tuition discount. This offer must be redeemed by Tuesday, January 17 (restrictions may apply/not all courses are discountable).

For more information and to register, click here.

Location:

7 East 12th Street , 5th Floor
(between 5th Avenue and University Place)
New York, NY 10003

Spring 2017 Courses Now Available:

Arts – studio art, art history & architecture, arts administration,appraisal studies, art business

Design – 3D design and fabrication, graphic design, interior design, digital effects, business of photography

Film – filmmaking and producing

Humanities – film studies, history, literature, philosophy & religion, theater, music, acting, communication, New York City metropolitan studies

Interpreting – simultaneous, consecutive, medical

Languages – Spanish, Arabic, Swedish, and more

Publishing – editing, book publishing, magazine and website publishing

Translation – legal, transcreation, literary media

Writing – professional writing, journalism, creative nonfiction, fiction & poetry, writing for screen and stage

Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

January 4, 2017 by dak7

Iris van Herpen is one of today’s most original fashion designers, boldly combining fashion, design, technology and science. Starting in May, visitors to the Dallas Museum of Art will be able to see 14 of her ensembles up close. New Yorkers can see one of her dresses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion” through February 5th. This article written by Becky Chung for The Creators Project shows some pieces from one of her more recent ready-to-wear collections “Magnetic Motion”:

“The designer deftly used futuristic techniques including injection molding, laser cutting, and 3D printing to create the romantic-futuristic collection; this is clothing that looks like wearable architecture. For Magnetic Motion, van Herpen even “grew” some accessories herself, by manipulating magnetic metal-laden materials. ”

Spring 2017 Courses at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts:

Exploring Fashion: Accessory Design

The Fashion Designer as An Artist

Fashion in Museums

3D Printing, Scanning, and Rapid Prototyping

Zbrush for 3D Artists and Designers

Student Works Featured at Soho Photo Gallery

December 21, 2016 by dak7

Last week, the Soho Photo Gallery showcased a photography exhibit by students in Lawrence Wheatman’s PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM BEGINNER TO EXHIBITOR course. From natural landscapes and urban scenes to portraits, the students presented collections that they worked on over the course of the semester and that expressed their unique creative vision. Below, students Kamila Sedziak and Susanne Mueller share what drew them to photography and what inspires them. You can visit their websites to learn more about them and see more of their excellent work.

KAMILA SEDZIAK

“Hiking in the mountains and viewing landscapes from their slopes gives me a unique perspective on the world that surrounds us with all its beauty and greatness – it’s where I escape the busy city life

for a while. For the ‘Mountainscapes’ series, I traveled to various U.S. National and State Parks to photograph shapes of the mountains and rock patterns carved by water, wind, clouds. I was inspired by lights and shadows that paint the landscapes and captured their mysterious appearance. “

www.travelibn.com

SUSANNE MUELLER

“I have been an adjunct professor at NYSPS since 2012 teaching classes for the coaching certification as well as the human capital management and leadership. I always wanted to take up a creative subject not related to my professional executive coaching career. I met Professor Wheatman at a NYSPS function where he explained to me it would be good to take a class in a creative medium complementing my writing and weekly blogging (www.smuellernyc.blogspot.com), hence my decision to take up the photography class: From Beginner to Exhibitor. In this class, I learned to focus better, to look at things differently, to take more time, and to develop my passion for something totally different. My passion became trees and their bark. Growing up in Switzerland, I enjoyed the outdoors with hiking and biking. While living in New York City, I miss nature tremendously; maybe that was my fascination to look deeper. “You see what YOU want to see” has been the theme for my photo show. You can look at those pictures the way you want, there is no right or wrong answer. A lot of visitors were amazed by how much we can see in those trees. As an executive coach, I invite my clients to look deeper, focus further, and take more time to enjoy what is in front of them.”

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If you are inspired to create your own photographic masterpieces in the new year, consider taking one of our Photography or Business of Photography courses:

Photography: From Beginner to Exhibitor

The Portrait Project: Portraying People

Expressive Photography: Creating Art

The Photography Book Project

Digital Retouching and Advanced Photographic Workflow

The Digital Darkroom with Photoshop

Photography: The Basics

Advanced Photography

Professional Practices and Business Development for Photographers

Event Photography

Copy Edit Tihs!

December 20, 2016 by dak7

CALA’s first cohort of students in the Advanced Diploma in Copyediting, Proofreading, and Fact-Checking are finishing up their final exams this week. The final assignment in the diploma programs puts their skills to the test by asking them to copyedit and fact-check excerpts from a magazine and an eBook, identifying and correct grammatical errors, incorrect word use, mislaid type, inconsistencies in font and layout, and mislabeled or misattributed artwork/photographs. Next, students must reverse engineer style guides for the book and magazine excerpts that were used in the first part of the project. Students must review each excerpt closely to create a guide that enumerates the stylistic choices the authors made, noting, for example, if the document uses a series comma, standard American vocabulary and spelling, indents for the first paragraph of new subchapters, etc.

This month The New York Times also has been testing its readers. Eagle-eyed readers are invited to complete a series of online tests created by the paper’s standards editor, Philip B. Corbett. We have no doubt that our diploma graduates would pass with highest marks. Can you? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/12/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-2.html?_r=0

Applications for the spring semester diploma program are due January 4^th. Apply now!

Advanced Diploma in Copyediting, Proofreading, and Fact-Checking

New York Edtech Week Starts on Monday

December 16, 2016 by dak7

Starting Monday, NYC and NYU will host NY Edtech Week , a global education innovation conference in New York City celebrating education entrepreneurship.

The festival attracts, develops, and supports education entrepreneurs and edtech investors — and consequently supports advancements in learning outcomes. The 2016 NY Edtech Week innovation festival will expand on past successful events that have brought together hundreds of technology innovators, early-stage investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, media representatives, researchers, and teachers to foster new partnerships and exchange best practices. The week will be broken up into two parts: a “think tank” series and a “shark tank” series.

Speakers include Alicia Glen (Deputy Mayor, NYC), Mike Barger (Founding CLO, JetBlue), Tom Kean Jr (Senator, NJ), Carmen Farina (Chancellor, NY Dept. of Education), Andrew Hamilton (President, NYU), Ted Mitchell (undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Education) and others.

As part of the conference, CALA instructor Ivan Shumkov will host an architectural tour of the World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan.

Ivan is teaching the following architecture course in Spring 2017:

Contemporary Architecture 1990-2015

A small sampling of other courses offered by the Center for Applied Liberal Arts:

New York as a Subject Matter for Great Art

The Bauhaus: Modernism in Art, Architecture, and Design

New York Design Innovation

New York’s Great Structures: Bridges, Tunnels, and More

New York Architecture: The Last 100 Years

Photography Exhibit at Soho Photo Gallery- Tonight!

December 14, 2016 by dak7

From the NYU SPS CALA course Photography: From Beginner to Exhibitor comes the 38th one-night student show at Soho Photo Gallery. Photographer and Instructor T Lawrence Wheatman and his students cordially invite you to this special event.