Online Discussions
Upcoming
To Testify or Not: Revisiting Interpreters’ Professional Secrecy
Friday, April 9, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Pacific Time (including Q&A)
* This event is only open to current and admitted translation and interpretation students. *
Dr. Kayoko Takeda will discuss professional ethics in interpretation. Dr. Takeda is a professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies in the College of Intercultural Communication at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. Previously, she was the head of the Japanese translation and interpretation at the Middlebury Institute. She is the author of several books, including Interpreters and War Crimes (2021) and Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial (2010).
Dr. Takeda will speak in English, the host will speak in Japanese, and our students will provide simultaneous interpretation into other languages.
TESOL/TFL Alumni Advice Panel: The Road Less Traveled
Friday, April 16, 2021, 4:00–5:30 p.m. Pacific Time
TESOL and Teaching Foreign Language (TFL) alumni discuss the alternative career pathways that led them to a job outside of the classroom. After a brief introduction from Dr. Kathi Bailey, the panelists will share their experiences with you on the various opportunities available to TESOL and TFL graduates.
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