Lives and Labors of Professional Translators

Seattle-area translators and interpreters will join the UW Translation Studies Hub community to discuss the practical and ethical dimensions of working in their professions. Topics will include translator/interpreter training and education, the joys and frustrations of the working life of a translator/interpreter, the tension between accuracy and efficiency, and the prospects and perils of artificial intelligence/deep learning in the field.

Featuring the following NOTIS members:

• Shelley Fairweather-Vega, freelance literary translator, Russian to English
• Tim Gregory, FBI linguist, Arabic-English
• Norma Kaminksy, medical translator, English to Spanish
• Frazier Lowell, court interpreter, Mandarin-English
• Mary McKee, freelance technical/business translator, Spanish to English
• Yuliya Speroff, community interpreter and interpreter trainer, Russian-English

Free and open to the public (but space is limited). Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please visit the event website.

***Please note that NOTIS is not organizing or sponsoring this event.***