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The Interpreter’s Tale from Sarajevo to Trieste: Jim Hicks in conversation with Krzysztof Rowiński
Recorded June 27, 2023. An 'in conversation' event featuring Prof Jim Hicks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) in conversation with Dr Krzysztof Rowiński (TCD) organised by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. The heightened visibility of translators and interpreters, with Arrival (2016) or the 2021 controversy over translators of Amanda Gorman's presidential inauguration poem as prime examples, is a relatively new phenomenon. Just a few decades ago, things did seem rather different. In war interpreting, where the stakes are literally life and death, little if any…
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