Keynotes
The Organizing Committee is proud to announce the two Keynote speakers for the conference:
Özüm Arzık-Erzurumlu, PhD
Özüm Arzık-Erzurumlu is a full-time faculty member in the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Reimagining Conference Interpreting in the Age of AI (Routledge) and co-editor of the forthcoming special issue Paradoxes in Translation and Interpreting Technology in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Her publications have appeared in journals including Interpreting, Translation and Interpreting Studies, and Perspectives. She has delivered invited talks and conference presentations internationally, including at ATISA, AIIC USA, EST, and IATIS. Arzık-Erzurumlu is a professional accredited conference interpreter with Turkish (A), English (B), and Spanish (C). She has interpreted speeches by American presidents for major Turkish broadcasters since 2006 and has pursued her professional interpreting career for international organizations, political summits, and media broadcasts. She is a board member of ATISA and serves on the advisory boards of Encounters in Translation and the Journal of Translation Studies.
Laura Keller, PhD
Laura Keller bridges multilingual communication and digital ethics. Her expertise in interpreting is rooted in an MA and a PhD in interpreting from the University of Geneva and her work as a freelance conference interpreter on the private and institutional markets in Geneva for going on 15 years. She is accredited to the European Institutions and is an active member of AIIC. Laura is currently pursuing an MA in Ethics at the University of Lucerne, specializing in the ethics of the digital transformation and is a supporting member of the Association of AI Ethicists. In her work in AI literacy advocacy she focuses on the ethical dimension of automatizing multilingual communication and the questions that arise regarding biases and power imbalances that are highlighted and exacerbated by AI-driven technologies. She has published and regularly intervenes in panels and workshops on the subject.
