Aurora Humarán: a new translation association
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Saturday, December 12, 2009Hello and welcome to my first ever Sunday interview podcast. Expect this to be a regular – indeed weekly – feature on my blog. Today’s Sunday interview is with Aurora Humarán (@AMHumaran) , the owner of the Aleph translation agency in Buenos Aires and since September 30 this year also founding chairwoman of the AIPTI - a new association for translators and interpreters.
Au – as she likes to be known – very graciously invited me to become a founding member of her new association over the summer, an offer which I rather unfortunately had to decline – I’m not joining any new business projects until I get my own projects a bit more organised – something which you’ll have noticed if you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to read this blog regularly for the past few months.
I did say I would love to interview her about her association though to see how things were going.
In the podcast, Au tells us:
- How the new association is coming along;
- Why she decided she needed to create a new association;
- Why it wasn’t enough to just continue with her popular NdT internet forums;
- What the ethical basis for the AIPTI is;
- How she sees the AIPTI as being different from existing translation associations such as the American Translators’ Association or the Insitutute of Translation and Interpreting;
- How she managed to convince such illustrious linguists as Noam Chomsky and Valentín García Yebra to become honorary members;
- What she thinks about globalisation, big translation agencies and trends in the translation world;
And many, many other interesting things. Please leave your comments and questions below.
Tim Drummond
13/12/2009
Matthew and Au, Great job. Thank-you for awakening me to some of the ideals and business challenges behind translation. I often take it for granted and need to realize there is much more than hauling out a dictionary and looking up the words. Au, your English was great and thank-you for your time.
Gabriela
13/12/2009
As a proud founding member of IAPTI, I can’t help being also proud of Au’s sayings about our association. Winds of change are blowing in our profession. Thank you so much for the great job you’re doing, Au!
Maria
14/12/2009
Excellent interview! Thank you so much, Matthew, for doing this amazing podcast. You had some really good questions. And Aurora’s answers were to the point and eye-opening. Thank you both.
Au Humarán
15/12/2009
Thank you very much for this great opportunity to talk about AITPI, Matthew. And thanks for all you do for our profession. Tim: thanks for your kind words. I am here: aurora.humaran@aipti.org if you (or anybody else, of course) needs to know more about the new association. Cheers! Au
Marce
15/12/2009
Wow! I wish I could have listened to your chat once the interview was over! Thanks Matthew for opening up this space to listen to Au’s words in her own voice. Thanks Au for being, once again, enlightening. I loved that “Ethics-beyond-sustainaibility-concept” you both reached. Excellent!