THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF
INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS INC.
EVENT INVITATION
Date:
Saturday,
21 March 2015
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Growing Professionally – Finding, Learning and
Reflecting for Optimum Benefit from CPD
PD: 40 Points
Registrations Close: Friday 20 March 2015
VENUE:
CIT Bruce Campus
K Block, Vowels
Crescent
Bruce ACT 2617
Professional practice in Western societies necessitates continuing and life-long
learning, but not everyone comes into the T&I profession equipped with tools that
allow them to gain the most from often easily accessible learning materials.
Free Parking
Available
Note: It is up to each attendee to fill in their logbook and claim points for the PD
activity they complete, including attendance of this event.
Cost:
9:00 - 9:30
Registration
9:30 - 9:45
Welcome
9:45 - 11:15
Sam Berner - Professional practice in Western societies necessitates
continuing and life-long learning, but not everyone comes into the T&I
profession equipped with tools that allow them to gain the most from
often easily accessible learning materials. Using her background in
education and her long experience in language services, Sam will
present a guided tour of how to “do” professional development in ways
that actually add value to our work, careers and professional selfesteem.
11:15 - 11:30
Morning Break
11:30 - 12:30
Eve Hedley - President Australian Sign Language Interpreters
Association Inc (ASLIA)
Members: $50
Non-Members: $70
Students: $35
CIT Community
Interpreting
Students: $10
Lunch and
morning/afternoon
tea included.
The Team Leader of the first Government Video Relay Service
provided in Australia presents some interesting new challenges
for Interpreters. The service provides Deaf Auslan (Australian Sign
Language) users the opportunity to make telephone calls to any where
and anyone Nationally. Interpreters require additional skills when
working in VRS and this presentation will promote awareness of a
service with outstanding potential.
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 2:00
Kevin Windle (Emeritus Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and
Linguistics, ANU)
Kevin Windle, Co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Translation
Studies (2011), will give a brief presentation on literary and scholarly
translation, outlining recent theoretical debate.
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2:00 - 3:00
John Beever – NAATI CEO
John will provide an update on NAATI’s improvements to
NAATI Testing Project (INT) and what that means for practitioners.
This will include likely new levels of NAATI credentials, requirements
for training and CPD.
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 3:45
Gaye Campbell-CIT Solutions
3:45 - 4:00
Closing
Short biography of presenter:
Sam Berner
Sam Berner is currently the principal partner of Arabic Communication Experts, one of Australia’s leading
translation services and cross cultural training specializing in the Middle East. Born in Europe and raised
by her archaeologist father in and around archaeological digs in North Africa and the Middle East, Sam can
fluently speak 3 languages and stutter in three others. She worked as an interpreter for the UN in a conflict
zone and one of the first female publishers in the North Africa. Sam’s excitingly diverse background no doubt
contributes to her ability to engage her audience. An active AUSIT member and a former National President,
Sam continues to mentor and motivate many aspiring translators to expand their vision globally. Prior to
coming to Australia she lived for over twenty years in the Middle East and North Africa, teaching, publishing
and translating.
During those years Sam worked for a number of regional and international publishing houses, as well as the
UNICEF. She was a founding member of the WATA (World Arabic Translators’ Association). In addition to
her translation work, Sam conducts workshops for Australian businesses about the use of translators, crosscultural communication and effective business dealing with people from Middle Eastern and North African
cultures. She also regularly presents workshops for the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators,
community groups working with refugees and other non-profit organizations, as well as travelling overseas to
present academic papers at international conferences. She also gives talks on work/lifestyle choices, going
solo, and creativity in work, and seminars on business ethics and professionalism.
Eve Hedley
Advanced Certificate of Language Auslan, Diploma of Interpreting Auslan, NAATI accredited Professional
Interpreter and Post Graduate advance Diploma of Interpreting Auslan - English(complete 2015), past
President of ASLIA Qld, Team Leader of the National Relay Service, Video Relay Service.
John Beever - NAATI CEO
Graduate of University of Melbourne in Economics and Politics.
Former ministerial speech writer and senior executive in Canberra.
Currently CEO of the national certification authority NAATI.
Member of the Advisory Board for the European Union’s TransCert Project.
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