Author name: Critical Link

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 […]

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

The first international Critical Link conference, with the theme Interpreting in Legal, Health and Social Service Settings, was held at the Geneva Park Conference Centre in Orillia, Ontario from June 1 to June 5, 1995. This first conference examined challenges facing community interpreters and began the process of identifying responses to these challenges. “The biggest