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| by Eva Gudbergsdottir
Petal Gahlot, a second-year student in the Middlebury Institute’s translation and interpretation program recently interpreted at an official meeting of Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and French President Emmanuel Macron.
“Behind every language is a mentality,” The Associated Press featured Conference Interpretation alumnus Alexandre Ponomarev MACI ‘00, chief interpreter at the Tokyo Olympics next year.“I believe in acquiring a language you also acquire a certain mentality.”
Emily Laur recounts her experience in Tokyo and Beijing as part of the East Asia Practicum offered over spring break.
As part of her degree in translation, Valeria Piña Fonseca went to the Peruvian Amazon during winter break to help Amazon Ecolodge translate documents about the living conditions of the local communities, like the Bora community in the picture.
Middlebury Institute Professor John Balcom taught a multi-genre translation workshop at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference in Vermont this summer.
Alumna Masako Fukutani MATI ‘19 won runner up in the Student Division of the Japan Association of Conference Interpreters 2019 Simultaneous Interpretation Grand Prix.
Middlebury Institute alumni and/or faculty collaborated at a milestone conference interpreting event in Las Vegas recently.
At least seven Middlebury Institute students have been offered a summer fellowship at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization and the Institute recently renewed their decade-old memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Second-year student Samantha Vila MATI ’19 won World Literature Today’s student translation contest with her translation of a short story by Peruvian author Gunter Silva.
Leo and Helga Katz, Holocaust survivors and grandparents of Middlebury Institute alumna Evelyn Lueker MAIEM ’18, are featured in a campus exhibit on the interpreters at the Nuremberg trials.
