100 Years of Conference Interpreting: Looking Back and Looking Forward. 3&4 October 2019. Co-organised by the @ILO and @interpretingFTI. [email protected]
Exciting news: @CamScholars just released
100 Years of Conference Interpreting: a Legacy
Edited by Prof. @KilianGSeeber, with contributions from over 40 stakeholders.
https://t.co/8Fck1XuPxW
... this volume takes stock of some of the most important milestones throughout the history of this exceptional profession and looks at its future at a time when the global COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world of international meetings.
https://t.co/46MweNqmmT
When Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Georges Clemenceau met in Versailles in January 1919, they ushered in the modern era of multilateral diplomacy and—perhaps inadvertently—laid the foundation for a new profession. Indeed, communication....
.... among these statesmen was only possible thanks to the first conference interpreters. For the following 100 years, these interpreters would become a permanent fixture at all international multilateral conferences. As we celebrate one century of conference interpreting...
Maybe Bernie could have anticipated how a global pandemic would impact the world of multilingual multilateral diplomacy: as we're putting the finishing touches on the Legacy Project publication our only regret is that @BernieSanders did not contribute...but many others did!
One year ago, well over 200 stakeholders met at @ilo in #Geneva to celebrate 100 years of conference interpreting. Who knew that this #timecapsule would become so relevant so quickly: check out @InterpretingFTI (ongoing) Legacy Project at https://t.co/reegvyzwWS
@UNIGEnews
Watch the entire townhall meeting on: The future of Conference Interpreting.
https://t.co/u3pVD1s2sh
With @troubleterps , @florikafink, @AWalterDrop, @UNGeneva and many more!
Here they are, as part of our 100 years Legacy project: the conference videos.
Get started with the official inauguration of the conference with @ilo DG @GuyRyder, @UNIGEnews Rector @FlueckigerYves and @aiiconline President Uros Peterc
https://t.co/BwCXrYbTln
@ilo@GuyRyder@UNIGEnews@FlueckigerYves @aiiconline @troubleterps @EP_Interpreters@EUInterpreters@UNGeneva@ITU@WIPO@NATO You'll find the keynote addresses here:
100 years of conference interpreting practice
https://t.co/cQGBcT4QGr
100 years of conference interpreting research
https://t.co/nyPqwiLluq
100 years of conference interpreter training
https://t.co/tCdQnDaOd2