Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 13, 2008.
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites translation, localization and technical communication educators to its Montréal2008 Roundtable meeting.
E-mail: Bruce.Maylath@ndsu.edu.
Web: http://english.unlv.edu/profwriting/attwbulletin/spring2008/montreal.htm.
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The Translation Company Division (TCD) of the American Translators Association (ATA) annual conference will feature two days of educational sessions tailored to the needs and concerns of translation company owners and managers.
E-mail: vitray@mcelroytranslation.com.
Web: http://www.ata-divisions.org/TCD.
The 2008 IMIA Conference is taking shape. For conference information please visit the IMIA website.
The theme of the year is Reducing Health Disparities by Ensuring Language Access to All, which reflects the importance of the right to a competent medical interpreter in all medically related encounters.
These are some of the questions we'll explore at this conference:
Our desire is to bring different stakeholders together to discuss language access compliance: providers, interpreters, trainers, interpreting managers, hospital administrators, risk managers, attorneys, insurance companies, interpreter agency owners, and others.