Past IJET - IJET-24 in Hawaii
Sessions
Ethics Panel – the Gameshow!!
Welcome erstwhile linguists!! Welcome to a modern ordeal by mortification! Yes! We will present to you a cohort of contestants, stand them on a podium one by one and give them a ridiculously small amount of time to develop and present a practical response to an excruciating ethical dilemma!
They will be judged by a panel of self-appointed experts according to criteria that, if not immediately transparent and reasonable, will at least convert the Q&A into a massive clawback session.
All dilemmas will be based on a catalogue of real life case studies from interpreters and translators with long experience, and these judgments, although not final, will certainly go to the character of the contestant and could very well last longer than the joke!
The proceedings will be driven at an insane pace by an idiot in a happi jacket: Chris Poole! The winner will be the lucky, lucky? Not Lucky! DESERVING recipient of a prize, the value if which will ONLY be limited by how much change left over after buying the happi jacket!
