The Draft ANC 2010 Program is now available.

The theme of the conference is “Interpreters and… : exploring settings, interactions and best practice in interpreting”. The call for papers has now closed, and the Scientific Committee have begun the selection process.

The ITW 2010 Program is now available.

A schedule of events surrounding ANC2010 is now also available.

Watch this space for details, or follow us on Twitter at @asliaconference.

ANC 2010 Keynote Presenter: Lorraine Leeson

Lorraine Leeson has been the Director of the Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin since its establishment in 2001. She has twenty years experience of working with Deaf communities in a range of capacities at national and European levels. She was one of the first professionally trained ISL/English Interpreters in Ireland and holds a PhD in theoretical linguistics. Lorraine has practiced interpreting locally and internationally, with her work taking her from local tertiary educational environments and legal contexts to the national theatre of Ireland and from there, to the European Institutions and the United Nations. A highlight has been working for the European Union of the Deaf.

Lorraine’s research interests relate to the morphosyntax of signed languages, the sociolinguistics of ISL, and interpreting studies, with over 70 peer reviewed publications and presentations to date. In recent years, a key area of focus has been on the teaching, learning and assessment of signed languages and sign language interpreters, with particular attention to blended learning environments. This has led to a large-scale government funded project (SIF II – Deaf Studies in Ireland) to develop accessible blended learning content for a 4 year Bachelor in Deaf Studies at Trinity College, as well as European Union funded project work on a range of Deaf studies and sign language elearning projects (D-Signs, SIGNALL II, SIGNALL 3, and DeafVoc). In 2008, Dr. Leeson was named a Léargas Language Ambassador for her work on ISL and was elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2009 on the basis of her research work to date.