Type of Event:
Conference
Date:
2007-04-11
Venue:
University of Western Sydney (Australia)
Event theme(s):
Quality in Interpreting: A shared responsibility
CL5 aims to generate discussion on such issues as:
:: the meaning of quality in interpreting,
:: the responsibility for quality interpreting in community settings being shared by all those involved,
:: the expectations of all those involved in the interpreted encounter,
:: the demands placed on interpreters to provide a quality service.
Description:
Interpreters cannot be held solely responsible for achieving quality. All participants in the interaction, the systems under which they operate (eg. the legal system, the education system, the health system), interpreter agencies and policy makers, need to share responsibility for quality of interpreting.
It is a basic human right for people, regardless of the language they speak, to be able to communicate in their community and to gain access to any services available.
We plan to involve practising interpreters, educators, academics, policy makers, lawyers, judges, medical practitioners and many other professionals who work with interpreters. We expect this will be a landmark event for the profession and hope it will be widely supported.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Helen TEBBLE (Deakin University)
Dr Michael COOKE (Consultant Linguist, Canberra)
Justice Len ROBERTS-SMITH, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeal of Western Australia
Professor Basil HATIM (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Deadline for submission of proposals:
2006-04-01
Registration deadline:
Contact details:
Critical Link 5 Secretariat
GPO Box 2609
Sydney NSW 2001 Australia
Telephone: +61 2 9241 1478
Facsimile: +61 2 9251 35523552
Event website:
http://www.criticallink2007.com
Critical Link 5. Quality in Interpreting: A shared responsibility
Posted by: Luis Perez Gonzalez date: 26-08-2006 | 03:14 PM.
