Dr. Witold Skowronski at The Polish Museum of America
The Polish Museum of America and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
cordially invite you the lecture entitled “To Be or Not To Be a Professional Interpreter”
by Dr. Witold Skowronski, internationally renowned conference interpreter, and Director and Lecturer at the School of Translation, Interpreting and Languages at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
The lecture will be held on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
at The Polish Museum of America Sabina P. Logisz Great Hall (984 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago).
at 6:30 p.m.
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More information can be found at:
http://www.stil.amu.edu.pl/index.php/witold-skowronski
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Dr. Witold Skowronski, will tell his compelling story of what it is like for a man to have spoken the thoughts of some of the greatest world leaders of our times:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth,
Pope John Paul II,
President Lech Walesa,
President George Bush,
President Aleksander Kwasniewski,
President Bill Clinton,
President Lech Kaczynski
and many more.
The lecture also takes a look at some of the most significant years of Polish-American relations through the eyes of the man who was at the very heart of where the world leaders were talking.
Witold Skowronski, PhD., – internationally renowned conference interpreter and Director of the School of Translation, Interpreting and Languages at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He taught at the State University of New York in Fredonia, N.Y. and at the American University in Washington D.C. Former President and member of the Association of Polish Translators and Interpreters and an active member of AIIC with double ‘A’ in Polish and English. Regularly works for the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France.
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