Sep 28, 2023
When working with refugees, interpreters are often confronted with special challenges. In this context, there often is no simple “right” or “wrong”. Rather, ethical and moral decisions often influence the choices an interpreter makes. The...
Jul 21, 2023
As part of the ReTrans Lecture Series Yannick Wagner gave insights into the interpreting activities of Train of Hope. In the following guest comments, students of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna describe their impressions and learnings....
Apr 13, 2023
It is our pleasure to announce a lecture series as part of the Erasmus+ project ReTrans. Throughout the semester, several spokespeople of different organisations that support refugees upon their arrival and thus work with interpreters will be invited to the Centre for...
Mar 20, 2023
In order to outline current practices and identify challenges of interpreting in the context of refugee transit zones and reception centres, the first project phase (WP1) in our project “ReTrans – Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones: Capacity building...
Sep 29, 2022
Welcome! It’s great to have you here, we were actually just thinking about you. And now you are probably wondering, why? We’ll come to that in a minute, but first things first: let us introduce ourselves. We are ReTrans which is short for Working with Interpreters in...
