5th Annual Legal Interpreting Symposium Interpreters and lawyers

5th Annual Legal Interpreting Symposium
Thursday 23 April, 2015 | 9:00am - 1:00pm | Staff Room, Law Faculty, UNSW
Never Stand Still
Faculty of Arts
Social Sciences
School of Humanities
Languages
Interpreters and lawyers: an interprofessional dialogue
The 5th Annual Legal Interpreting Symposium (UNSW) will be dedicated to the interprofessional dialogue
between interpreters and lawyers. Its aim is to further the cooperation between these two professions,
leading up to a greater understanding of each other’s needs and improved interactions in legal and courtroom
settings. Organised by the Interpreting & Translation Discipline Group and the Law School.
Attendance is by invitation only. The event will be available to all as a live broadcast, follow the event
by searching for UNSW 5th Symposium on Legal Interpreting on YouTube on 23 April 2015.
Program
Convenors: Professor Sandra Hale, Associate Professor Ludmila Stern, Mehera San Roque
Discussant: Dr Uldis Ozolins
09:30 – 09:40
Opening – Prof Sandra Hale
09:40 – 10:55
Interprofessional dialogue between interpreters and lawyers.
Moderator: Professor Kathy Laster, Director of the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre at Victoria University
11:05 – 12:00
Q & A discussion with the participation of the expert audience.
With the participation of interpreting and legal practitioners, and representatives from AUSIT, AUTIF,
NAATI, Multicultural NSW and private and government interpreter agencies.
12:00 – 12:20
Summary and recommendations. Discussant Dr Uldis Ozolins
12:20 – 12:30
Closing address by the Hon. Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister for Social Services
web: hal.unsw.edu.au
phone: + 61 2 9385 1681
facsimilie: +612 9385 8705
email: hal@unsw.edu.au