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2025 Free Webinars with CCC
These webinars cover important interpreting resources for language professionals.
We hope you enjoy this FREE webinar series, delivered by experts from the fields of conference, legal, community and medical interpreting.
Certificates of attendance are only issued to attendees of the live sessions and must be downloaded within 3 weeks of attending the webinar.
Learning objectives
Attendees of this webinar will be able to:
Recognize when a situation is an ethical dilemma.
Predict potential consequences for differing responses to an ethical dilemma.
Defend a strategic response to an ethical dilemma using principles from an interpreter code of ethics.
#1 Ethical Dilemmas: Murphy’s Law’s Gift to Interpreters
Live session: Thursday, January 16, 2025, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET
Presenter: Dr. Devin Gilbert
In popular culture, Murphy’s law refers to the idea that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. The world is seldom a tidy, predictable place, and this applies to the world of interpreting as well. Whether working in healthcare, the legal system, the education system, or elsewhere, interpreters are consistently faced with challenging situations that demand a responsible, professional response. These are ethical dilemmas.
This webinar will first present attendees with a review of varying examples of interpreter codes of ethics. Next, attendees will go over examples of ethical dilemmas that force interpreters to put these codes of ethics into practice. The bulk of the time spent in this webinar will be spent exploring authentic ethical dilemmas from dialogues on Terp (https://terp.app), and attendees, in real time, will mark how they would respond in an interactive survey. After recording how they would respond, attendees will predict the consequences of their decisions and defend their responses using principles from interpreter codes of ethics.
This webinar received approval for the following CEUs: 1 CCHI CE hour, 0.1 IMIA/NBCMI CEU, 1 ATA CEP, and 0.1 RID CEU. Note that you must have attended the live session to receive these credits.
About the presenter: Dr. Devin Gilbert is a translation/interpreting practitioner, educator, and researcher. He teaches Spanish Translation and Interpreting as an Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University’s (UVU) Department of Languages & Cultures. His research interests include translation/interpreting pedagogy, translation process research, and translation/interpreting technology. Devin enjoys developing software for the web and is constantly trying to expand his developer skillset. In 2022, he started developing Terp, a web-based interpreting training platform that seeks to make quality, authentic interpreting practice dialogues more accessible and interactive.