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Conference Interpreting: Past, Present & Future (Issue 71)

October 30, 2017

“Take a step back and you'll see more” the saying goes. And this issue follows that advice with articles about our profession’s history that segue into considerations of contemporary developments that open horizons for the future.

Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course (2nd Edition) by Andrew Gillies

A must-have book for anyone who wishes to develop a robust, efficient, and reliable note-taking system, or who aims at training interpreters to do so.

  • Marc ORLANDO
  • consecutive-interpreting
  • interpreter-training
  • note-taking
  • book-review

Remembering Jeannie de Clarens

A critical link in helping the allies defeat Nazi German, she pursued a career in conference interpreting after the war – and never uttered a word of German again.

  • Christopher THIERY
  • memoriam
  • aiic-history
  • professional-history

Constantin Andronikof : une courte biographie

En 1953, avec André Kaminker, chef interprète du Conseil de l’Europe et Hans Jacob, chef interprète de l’Unesco, Constantin Andronikof fonde l’Association Internationale des Interprètes de conférence.

  • Anne-Marie WIDLUND-FANTINI
  • conference-interpreting
  • aiic-history
  • professional-history

On Ethics and Interpreters By Małgorzata Tryuk

Cet volume, qui est le résultat d’un énorme travail de documentation, constituent une contribution majeure à la connaissance directe de l’évolution de la profession.

  • Alina PELEA
  • interpreting-studies
  • professional-ethics
  • professional-history
  • book-review

Conference Procedure: A Very Short History

A conference interpreter has to be familiar with parliamentary procedure. But where did the rules and their attendant rituals come from?

  • Christine ADAMS
  • conference-interpreting
  • conference-procedures
  • professional-history

AIIC USA presents Nuremberg: The Birth of a Profession

An exhibition on the origins of simultaneous interpretation organized by AIIC and the UN (New York).

  • Angela KEIL
  • united-nations
  • nuremberg
  • aiic-history
  • professional-history

Looking for Interpreter Zero: (15 )The First Crusade & the Latin Story

Crusaders learned what sorts of linguists they needed as they set about establishing their Kingdom of Jerusalem.

  • Christine ADAMS
  • cross-cultural-communication
  • interpreter-zero
  • professional-history
  • interpreters-role

New ISO standards relating to conference interpreting

Three new standards related to conference interpreting and 2 updated standards on interpretation booths and equipment are now in place.

  • Benoît KREMER
  • Klaus ZIEGLER
  • technical-guidelines
  • iso-standards
  • simultaneous-booths
  • equipment-booths

One, Two, Sound Check: Interpreters meet with SI equipment providers

Conference interpreters and sound engineers want to collaborate, so in Turkey we brought them together to form bonds.

  • Bahar COTUR
  • conference-equipment
  • conference-interpreting
  • equipment-suppliers
  • sound
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Issues by Year

2017

Conference Interpreting: Past, Present & Future (Issue 71)

Training, Technology and Quality (Issue 70)

2016

Interpreting and Beyond (Issue 69)

Linguistic Diversity and Communication (68)

2015

Language and Power (67)

The three pillars of AIIC: Staff interpreters, agreement sector and private market (66)

2014

Conference interpreting and new communication constructs (65)

Acclaiming achievement (64)

2013

The Birth of a Profession (63)

Interpreters: Reality and fiction (62)

2012

Is there justice in outsourcing? (61)

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