Critical Link International spearheaded a movement that has evolved into a robust field of study, research, and professional practice in community interpreting.

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Meet the CLI Team

Our current Executive Team and Members At Large The Critical Link International Board of Directors welcome Maria Aguilar-Solano to the Board as our new secretary.   Executive President, Angela Sasso, CanadaVice President, Elizabeth Abraham, CanadaPast President, Bonnie Heath, CanadaSecretary, Maria Aguilar-SolanoTreasurer, Kiran Malli, Canada Members At Large Jiri Adler, CanadaLluis Baixauli, SpainMonica Ruiz, CanadaPascal Riloff, […]

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AVLIC 2014: Interpreters and Human Rights

Re-cap of the Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada’s most recent conference Interpreters and Human Rights. That was the theme chosen by the Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada (AVLIC) for its recent conference in Winnipeg, Canada held July 8th through 12th, 2014.  Language rights are human rights Bonnie Heath, past President of Critical

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New Research and Development Committee

Exploring ways to bring members the latest academic research available Critical Link’s new Research and Development Committee, Lluis Baixauili, Michal Schuster and Karin Reinhold, have been hard at work. The committee is exploring ways to make the latest academic research available to members. Soon, the Critical Link website will have a Research and Development tab with links to

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Critical Link 5: Quality in Interpreting: A Shared Responsibility

The first to be held in the southern hemisphere, took place in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, from 11 to 15 April, 2007. It attracted the largest number of delegates since the inception of the Critical Link congress series in 1995, with a total of 489 delegates from 28 different countries. The theme was “Quality in interpreting:

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Critical Link 4: Professionalization of Interpreting in the Community

The first conference to be held outside Canada, took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from May 20th to May 23, 2004 and attracted 354 participants from all over the world. The theme was “Professionalization of interpreting in the community” and the programme was as challenging as it was interesting. It featured 4 plenary lectures, 5 panels,

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Critical Link 3: Interpreting in the Community: The Complexity of the Profession

The third international Critical Link conference was held in Montreal in 2001 from May 22 to May 26. The conference theme was Interpreting in the Community: The Complexity of the Profession. The program, attracting more than four hundred participants from twenty countries, included 80 paper presentations, 4 plenary sessions, 6 workshops, and 2 round table

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Critical Link 2: Standards and Ethics in Community Interpreting

Between May 19 and 23, 1998, 304 participants from twenty-three countries gathered on the beautiful campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for a conference on the theme of Standards and Ethics in Community Interpreting: Recent Developments. In a series of intensive and thought-provoking working sessions, conference participants identified the following as

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