Making progress! Mechtild is coming through for me!!! 🙂
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Latest: interpreters in Berlin
by Steph • January 15th, 2005
Latest: anti-discrimination
by Steph • January 12th, 2005
I just picked up Tove Skutnabb-Kangas‘ co-edited book on linguistic human rights…
I like her opening to her homepage, “I am what I write?” 🙂 There are many links to follow. (go there again!) Many Deaf education and interpreter training programs use her work.
a sociolinguistic perspective on linguistic human rights
bibliography with links re linguistic human rights
Latest: it’s getting good!
by Steph • January 10th, 2005
Tom Cheesman turned me on to Marilyn Martin-Jones. 🙂 I’ve yet to actually land a specific person in the Berlin area but the list of names and network of contacts keeps growing. Very exciting!
She and Tom were in contact about asylum issues with (lack of) interpreting. Tom wrote that he’s been “getting heavily involved in local voluntary work with refugees (see www.hafan.org). This brings me up against the realities very sharply (sheer lack of interpreters / translators, lack of funding for such services in legal, medical and other critical contexts, huge harm done by unethical and incompetent practitioners and lack of understanding of translationissues among service providers, reliance on children, friends… Also growing reliance by organisations on telephone services which are rarely satisfactory from clients’ p.o.v.). ”
Latest: NU newletter
by Steph • December 27th, 2004
These folks are usually up to some good stuff.
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Latest: nice things and hard ones
by Steph • December 16th, 2004
Yesterday was a mixed day. The highlight was a breakthrough for a mental health patient who’s treatment sessions I’ve been interpreting for over five years. WOW! The department party was enjoyable, but severely tainted by my memories of last year, when I was accompanied by my family. Alas.
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Latest: Ukraine media rebel
by Steph • December 1st, 2004
Ukraine media rebel against official line
By Steven Lee Myers
KIEV, Ukraine — The most striking, and potentially significant,
public rebellion against President Leonid D. Kuchma and his chosen
successor in Nov. 21’s contested election began silently.
On the morning of Nov. 25, Natalia Dimitruk, an interpreter for the
deaf on Ukraine’s official state UT-1 television, disregarded the
anchor’s report on Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovych’s victory and,
in her small inset on the screen, began to sign something else
altogether.
Latest: ultimate ethical risk
by Steph • December 1st, 2004
from Mosnews.com, reported last Friday:
“Natalia Dmitruk, a sign language presenter with the Ukrainian TV channel UT-1 has ignored the text read by the news presenter and instead transmitted the message that the results of the elections were rigged, Russia’s NTV television reports.”
She’s concerned that the station might drop sign language interpreting altogether, but explained (in Ukrainian Sign Language as part of her protest): ” I am very disappointed by the fact that I had to interpret lies.” She then joined a strike called by journalists of the TV station.
Latest: “with a little help from my friends”
by Steph • November 15th, 2004
Two bits of happy news:
I got referenced! 😉 It’s the first (and only, smile) time that I know about, but Deborah M. Davidson, author of the cover article for the current VIEWS, cites me! Whoopee yahoooooo! Somebody reads me! 🙂
And, a different piece that I wrote for the VIEWS will be republished in the UK Interpreters’ Magazine, Newsli. It’s a much better piece now, slightly revised, because Austin W. Andrews went to all the trouble of hunting me down after it was first published because part of it was decidedly unclear to someone who wasn’t “there” at the event I wrote about. With his questions and comments, it’s all spruced-up and ready to go. This, I like. 🙂
Latest: World Sign Language Conference
by Steph • October 31st, 2004
Where I want to be next Halloween, the first conference for the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters!
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Latest: SUCKER!
by Steph • October 25th, 2004
Benjamin sucked me right into that trick question at his presentation today! Of course I *assumed* that if he was showing us a certain example it had to mean something. 🙂
A couple of the new cohorters got right in there – but what was up with all y’all marching in late and disrupting the whole show, eh?! And did anyone besides me notice the faculty member dozing off and on throughout?
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