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:

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