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Saturday, March 15th, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Online)

Zoom's Language Feature, and Simultaneous Skills Development Workshop

Presenter: P. Angelica Snyder, Spanish Interpreter, Michigan Medicine

Calendar

Past Events

2025

Annual General Meeting
Saturday, January 25, 2025 / 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Online)

2024

Saturday, October 12, 2024 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Online)
Interpreting Skill Development for Court Interpreters
Presenter: Mr. Victor Joaquin

Thursday, September 19, 2024  7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Online)
Medical Terminology: Congenital Cardiology
Presenter: Dr. Jimmy Lu, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Professor of Radiology and ECHO Co-Director, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Medical School • MM Pediatrics-Cardiology

Saturday, June 15, 2024 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Online)
Ethics 101 - A Look at Interpreter Ethics
Presenter: Mr. Chris Becker

Saturday, May 11, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Online)
AI for Translators and Interpreters & Marketing and Websites
Presenter: Mr. Wojciech Slusarczyk

Saturday, April 27, 2024 / 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (In-person)
Prep Workshop in Consecutive Interpreting
Presenter: Ms. Evelyn Villarruel

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 / 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (Online)
Transcribing 101 - Learn from court reporters what is a transcription.  Hints and tactics. Examples of software that can help.
Presenters: Ms. Vanessa Busch, Certified Court Operator, Honorable Nicholas Ayoub and Ms. Jillayn DeBoer (Malburg), Court Operator & Certified Electronic Recorder, Honorable Brian O. Neill

Monday, February 26, 2024 / 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Online)
Hometown Recruiters - Department of State Language Services
Presenter: Ms. Rania Hijazeen

Saturday, January 27, 2024 / 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Online)
Annual General Meeting

2023

Saturday, December 2, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (In-person)
Holiday Brunch

Saturday, November 18 / 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Online)
Town Hall Meeting with the Oakland County Circuit Court Administrator, Richard Lynch.

Saturday, October 28 / 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (In-person)
A walk into Labor and Delivery and the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department: What Interpreter should know
Presenter: Dr. AnneMarie Opipari, Michigan Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Department

Saturday, September 30 / 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (Online)
Ethics and Professionalism
Panelists: Ms. Jinny Bromberg, Mr. David Porta, Ms. Evelyn Villarruel

Saturday, August 19 / 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM (Online)
A Synopsis of District Court Procedure in Michigan and the Role of interpreters in District Courts
Presenter: Judge Cynthia Walker

Saturday, July 29 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Online)
Interpretation and the Medical Field: Current and Future Trends
Presenter: Mr. Damian Omness

Saturday, May 6 / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (In-person)
Visualization Workshop
Presenters: Ms. Donna Bos and Ms. Hiromi Fujii

Saturday, April 22 / 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (In-person)
Workflow in the Emergency Department: Intricacies in Adult and Children’s Emergency Services
Presenter: Nicole Therese Klekowski, MD

Saturday, March 4 / 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (Online)
Corpus Linguistics: Mining billions of words for empirical language studies
Presenter: Mr. Donald MacQueen

Saturday, January 21 / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Annual General Meeting

2022

Saturday, December 10, 2022 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
General Overview of Probate Court
Presenter: Judge David M. Murkowski, Chief Judge Kent County Probate Court

Saturday, December 3
Holiday Get Together (in-person)

Saturday, October 29
ATA Round Table
Presenter: Ms. Izumi Suzuki

Saturday, September 17 / 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Understanding and Interpreting Child Welfare Cases in Family Court
Presenter: Honorable Mark Feyen, Chief Probate Judge of Ottawa County Probate Court

Saturday, August 13 / 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Understanding Firearms Vocabulary for Witness testimony / transcripts / translations
Presenter: Mr. Mark Jacobson

Saturday, July 23 / 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Translating Official Documents
Presenter: Ms. Rula Hijazeen

Saturday, June 25 / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Returning to Normalcy? Court operations in a post-pandemic world
Presenter: Mr. Richard Lynch

Saturday, May 14 / 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
What do you need to become a medical interpreter
Presenter: Ms. Sereen Kishmish

Saturday, April 30 / 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Simultaneous Interpretation by Zoom
Presenter: Ms. Angelica Snyder

Saturday, March 26 / 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Interpreting for Refugees
Presenter: Ms. Jay Dawn

Saturday, January 29 / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Annual General Meeting

Resources

More event, workshop and seminar opportunities are available from ATA and its chapters and affiliates.

ATA: https://www.atanet.org/ata-events/

ATA chapters and affiliates: https://www.atanet.org/member-center/groups/