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Special Guests: Elisabet Tiselius and Michaela Albl-Mikasa.

Links:

• The Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting — This volume is unique in its approach to the field of conference interpreting as it covers not only research and teaching practice but also practical issues of the profession on all continents. Bringing together over 70 researchers in the field from all over the world and with an introduction by the editors, this is essential reading for all researchers, ​trainers, students and professionals of conference interpreting.
• 10th EST Congress: Advancing Translation Studies

Special Guest: Kilian Seeber.

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• 2 Page Reference Collection for the Troublesome Terps Research Episode
• Book: Being a Successful Interpreter - Jonathan Downie — Well, Jonathan's book 😉
• Book: Introducing Interpreting Studies - Franz Pöchhacker — Introducing Interpreting Studies gives a comprehensive overview of the field and offers guidance to those undertaking research of their own. The book is complemented by The Interpreting Studies Reader (Routledge, 2002), a collection of seminal contributions to research in Interpreting Studies, and by the comprehensive Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies (Routledge, 2015).
• Book: The Interpreting Studies Reader - Franz Pöchhacker — The Interpreting Studies Reader is the definitive guide to the growing area of interpreting studies. Spanning the multiple and diverse approaches to interpreting, it draws together the key articles in the field and puts them in their thematic and social contexts. This is a comprehensive overview of interpreting studies and the new directions the subject is taking in the twenty-first century.
• Book: Research Methods in Interpreting: A Practical Resource
• Book: Interpreting as Interaction
• Book: De-/re-contextualizing Conference Interpreting: Interpreters in the Ivory Tower?, Ebru Diriker
• Paper: Interpreters’ perception of linguistic and non-linguistic factors affecting quality: A survey through the world wide web
• Paper: Stakeholder expectations of interpreters: a multi-site, multi-method approach
• Journal: Interpreting - International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting
• Website: www.cirinandgile.com — CIRIN is an international information network on research into conference interpreting. CIRIN is independent, with no financial or institutional link with any academic or non-academic organization.
• Survey Tool

Special Guest: Caroline Lehr.

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• Article: Emotional Barriers to Effective Communication
• Paper: Emotional and Psychological Effects on Interpreters in Public Services
• Paper: The role of emotions in establishing meaning: implications for interpreting
• YouTube: EU Interpreters - Can interpreters get emotion across?

Special Guest: Camille Collard.

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• Why so few men? : Gender imbalance in conference interpreting — Research into the causes and consequences of a preponderance of women in the profession of conference interpretation and what men think about it - by Rachael Ryan.
• Conference Interpreters: A Female Field – Medium — It’s not a dirty little secret so much as it is undeniably obvious: professional simultaneous interpreters a.k.a. conference interpreters are primarily women.
• (2) Sex Differences in Simultaneous Interpreting: a Corpus-Based Study — Research poster by Camille Collard and Bart Defrancq
• Are women best in simultaneous interpreting? - interpreting.info — Are women the best interpreters? Do their brain or short memory work better than men?
• Gender in Conference Interpreting: Social Constructs, Sexism and Biases | Translations With AM — Scrolling through my feed of endless posts about language, translation and interpreting, I came across this title: “Why so few men?: Gender imbalance in conference interpreting”. The feminist translator in me just couldn’t resist it. I had to read that article even when I suspected I was not going to like what I found. Well, I didn’t. The piece written by Rachael Ryan and published in the website of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) offered, in a very objective manner, an insight into the pervasive misconceptions we all have to deal with on a daily basis, but allow me to share with you what I read into it.
• Gender in interpreting: A non-issue? - interpreting.info — Male interpreters for male speakers - female interpreters for female speakers => What is your opinion on this? And what do our clients think (i.e. did you ever work in a situation where the client specifically requested this)?
• Who make better translators, men or women? | Rosetta Translation — The issue of male versus female performance in translation and interpreting work is one that rarely comes up, but it is one where project managers may be surprisingly opinionated.
• Stress Busters for Interpreters (And Everyone Else) — If the first step in managing stress is to understand it, the second step is to give yourself permission to focus on yourself to deal with it.