The Winter Translation Forum is undoubtedly a framework for dialogue and exchange of views between translation and interpreting professionals. Specifically, the forum in question is used to discuss current affairs relating to the professional field of translation and conference interpreting. The conference organizers invited me to make a presentation on the current situation in the…
Over the last few months, Podium has worked with two different national television channels, ERT and ANT1, to cover all major international events taking place all over the world. This started with the most important event, the war in the Ukraine; from the very start, Podium has worked in the studios of the Greek national…
Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, gate 9, VIP lounge: a private meeting between Pope Francis and the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Nikos Dendias, has just been completed, in the presence of their two interpreters alone. The brief farewell ceremony for Pope Francis is in progress. A few minutes later, an Aegean Airlines plane…
What do the television studios in Liosia, the OSE (Hellenic Railways Organisation) Railway Museum in Piraeus, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and luxury hotels in Chalkidiki and the southern suburbs of Attica all have in common? What “invisible” thread binds Ms Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Mr Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the…
In June 2019, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation contacted Podium, a company in which I am a partner, and asked us to provide Greek-to-English interpreting for the hearings of the Golden Dawn members. More specifically, the «HumanRights360» non-governmental organization and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, had invited famous and established sketch artists from abroad, to attend the…
As is often said, an interpreter is a speaker’s voice in another language. Yet, how much do we really know about being an interpreter, and how much is still obscure? Are interpreters simply machines that transfer words from one language to another, or are they more than that? What is their role? Can anyone be…