By Cristina McDowell From the Ground Up Interview of Diane E. Teichman by Cristina McDowell with the collaboration of Carol Velandia Cristina McDowell (CM): Diane, for over eleven generations your family has served the United States judicial system as lawyers, judges, justices of the Supreme Court and records archivists and continues to do so today. The … [Read more...]
Medical Interpreters on a Different Stage
By Helen Eby March, 2015. I was sitting at home, talking with friends. Ring! —Hello? This is Portland Public Schools. Could I talk to Helen Eby? —Yes… That’s me… —Are you available on April 16 to interpret for a Nobel laureate, Dr. Rigoberta Menchú, from Guatemala? Oh, please keep this totally confidential. We don’t want anyone to know about it except through … [Read more...]
Remote Simultaneous Interpreting: Options and Standards
By Cyril Flerov Even though experiments with Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI) have been taking place since the early 1970s, it is only relatively recently that we have heard more and more about this type of interpretation. It may exist in several configurations, namely: Internal cable – interpreters are in the same building but not in the … [Read more...]
IMIA Annual Conference 2016 – Call for papers
Call for papers International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) Annual Conference 2016 April 29th – May 1st, 2016 Boston, MA Submission deadline: November 30, 2015 Registration deadline (for approved abstracts): December 31, 2015 For more information: imiaweb.org/conferences/callforpapers.asp Image: Pixabay … [Read more...]
Meet the Interpreter: Melinda González-Hibner
By Cristina McDowell Interview of Melinda González-Hibner by Cristina McDowell For many of you Melinda does not need an introduction. I first met Melinda at the ATA Conference in Chicago in 2014. She immediately struck me as a person who was open, engaging, and helpful. Melinda is an accomplished interpreter (she is a state and federally certified … [Read more...]