This seminar is intended for students in translation studies, international and global studies, languages, and linguistics to learn the rules of procedure, basic negotiating procedures and terminology for the United Nations. The course is of particular interest to students interested in careers in international organizations. The course is given in English for students from all languages. Students in the translation studies program will do special exercises translating UN documents into English. The seminar will consist of lectures and a simulation exercise that models a UN resolution session.

A certificate of participation will be issued to all participants who enroll in the workshop. Students in the translation studies program will be able to apply the credit toward the certificate.

About the Instructor:
A UN staff interpreter for more than twenty years, Lynn Visson holds a Harvard PhD and taught Russian language and literature at Columbia University. She now freelances at the UN, where she has conducted interpreter training programs. She has taught interpretation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Columbia University, Moscow University, the Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. Dr. Visson's many publications on Russian language and culture include several books and audiocourses on Russian-English simultaneous interpretation. She is a consulting editor at Hippocrene Books and a member of the editorial boards of SlavFile, the publication of the ATA's Slavic Division, and the Moscow translation and interpretation journal Mosty.