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Speaking Engagements

  • March 13-19, 2011 - Goose Bay Labrador - Five Day Workshop - Interpreting in Courtrooms (Training with Spoken Language Interpreters)
  • July 14 - 16, 2011 - WASLi Conference (Think Globally - Act Locally) - WASLi Conference Programme
  • July 16, 2011  - Presenting two papers:
    • Interpreting in International Sign: Decisions of Deaf and non-deaf  Interpreters (UK and Canada)
    • Current Practices in Signed Language Interpreting in Legal Settings in North America (USA & Canada)
  • August 26th to- 28th, 2011 - Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association Conference - Read the conference paper

Previous Engagements

  • Five Day Interpreting Workshop - Cartegenga, Colombia - Oct 2010 - Presentación del evento
  • ASL Immersion in Edmonton - July 6 - 10, 2009
  • Malaysia Interpreter Education Seminar- Aug 22– 25, 2009 - Seminar
  • ACE-DHH in Pittsburgh, Philedelphia Feb 22-24, 2007
  • Critical Link, Parametta, Australia - April 11-15, 2007
  • Durham England - http://www.conference.asli.org.uk - April 2006
  • Toronto Canada - http://www.avlic.ca - July 2006
  • International Presentation: “Professionalism of Sign Language Interpreting. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 28-29, 2004 (two-day conference, combination of research paper and skill development workshops (55 participants).
  • International Presentation: “Legal Interpreting: Consecutive Interpretation in the Courtroom”. Denver, CO, January 16-18, 2005 (Two-day conference, combination of research paper and skill development workshops (35 participants).
  • International Presentation: “Access to the Language of Instruction – A Case Study”. Paper presented at the Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Banff, AB, February 26, 2005 (55 participants).
  • International Presentation: “Discourse Analysis and the Interpreter”. San Diego CA, March 20-22 2005 (two-day conference, combination of research paper and skill development workshops (45 participants).
  • International Presentation: “Teaching Consecutive Interpreting: Pulling it all Together”. Portland, OR, June 08-11, 2005. Keynote address given at the first symposium on Teaching Consecutive Interpreting sponsored by Western Oregon University. (85 participants).
  • National Presentation: Report on the Results of the 2002 Demographic Study of ASL/English Interpreters in Canada: Co-researcher: Dr. Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba; presented results at a national conference, AVLIC Biennial Conference, Vancouver, BC, July 07, 2004. (100 participants)
  • National Presentation: Discourse Analysis in Legal Settings. Half Day workshop presented at the AVLIC Biennial Conference, Vancouver, BC, July 08, 2004; co-presenter: Greg Evans, Partner, Taylor McCafferty, Winnipeg, MB. (70 participants)
  • National Presentation: Unity Within - Conflict Resolution; co-presenter: Anita Harding, Vancouver, BC; presented three day workshop in Halifax, NS, November 06-09, 2004. (125 participants)
  • Local Presentation: Summer Institute for Interpreters, Transliterators and Teacher Assistants. “Language Development Principles in Deaf and Non-Deaf Learners”; Edmonton, AB: August 16, 2004. (48 participants)
  • Local Presentation: Summer Institute for Interpreters, Transliterators and Teacher Assistants. “Creating a Professional Development Plan – Strategies and Resources” Edmonton, AB; August 20, 2004. (48 participants)

Debra Russell, Adult Educator, Certified Interpreter Ph.D.