Registration form: AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee | Symposium: Legal interpreting – Challenges and Solutions in the US and Europe
Venue:
Judicial Council of California
455 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco
Date:
5 – 8 June 2018
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 5th June, Great Hall
17:00: Reception and Exhibition opening
« One trial – four languages. The pioneers of simultaneous interpreting »
Wednesday, 6th June, Auditorium
9:30 – 10:30: Introduction
Christiane Driesen, Chair of the AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee
Representative of the Judicial Council (tbc)
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: The US court system
Chair: Olivia Reinshagen-Hernandez, US Associate Member of the AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee
Speaker: (tbc)
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:15: Training and CPD of legal interpreters
Chair: Christiane Driesen, Chair of the AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee
Speakers:
Indigenous Language Interpreter Cases in U.S. Courts
Paula Navarro-Gomez | Conference Interpreter and Translator, Federally & CA State Certified Interpreter, Member of AIIC, Adjunct Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey
The Many Faces of Interpreting: Training Interpreters of Indigenous Languages
Ester Navarro-Hall | Court (Federal, CA), medical (CA) interpreter, Adjunct Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey
15:15 – 15:45: Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00: Ethics and standards
Chair: Liese Katschinka, Member of the AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee
Speaker:
Applied Ethics in Legal Settings
Julie Johnson | Free-lance conference interpreter, legal interpreter, professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey
Thursday, 7th June, Sequoia
9:30 – 11:00: Status of the Legal Interpreting Profession in the US and in Europe
Chair: Liese Katschinka, Member of the AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee
Speakers:
Status of the Legal Interpreting Profession in the US
Gladys Matthews | Chair of the NAJIT Board of Directors
Rob Cruz | Executive Director of NAJIT
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00: Building Bridges – Conference to Court
Chair: George Drummond, Member of the AIIC Legal Interpreting Committee
Speaker:
Katty Kauffman | Member of AIIC and NAJIT, Member of AIIC’s VEGA Network
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Visit to Exhibition « One trial – four languages. The pioneers of simultaneous interpreting »
Friday, 8th June
10:00 – 11:30: Supreme court tours – limited to 20 persons per tour
14:00 – 15:30 Entrance: 350 McAllister St.
Registration fees
Regular participants: $ 180
Students: $ 70
The registration fee covers attendance of the symposium, the reception on Tuesday, the Supreme Court tour on Friday, coffee breaks.
Payments possible only via PayPal (please add a transfer charge of $ 5 to the registration fee) at PayPal.Me/katschinka. No refunds are possible for cancellations after 15 May 2018.
Registration should reach us by 25 May 2018.
Please use the registration form below.