Mediating Emergencies and Conflicts

Federico M. Federici is Lecturer at University College London, UK. Previously he designed and directed the MA in Translation Studies at Durham University, UK (2008-2014), where he founded and directed the Centre for Intercultural Mediation. He was member of the Board of the European Master's in Translation Network (2011-2014). Among his publications are the book Translation as Stylistic Evolution (2009) and the volume co-edited with Dario Tessicini Translators, Interpreters and Cultural Mediators (2014). His research focuses on the role of translators as intercultural mediators, and on the reception of translated texts.

Chapter 1: Introduction: a state of emergency.- PART I: EMERGENCIES IN A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT.- Chapter 2: Interpreting in the Emergency Department. How context matters for practice.- Chapter 3: Anybody there? Emergency and Disaster Interpreting in Turkey.- Chapter 4: Training Translators for Crisis Communication: The Translators Without Borders Example.- Chapter 5: Translator's and Interpreter's Challenges of the 21st Century in the Russian Arctic: Mediating Emergencies.- PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF EMERGENCIES.- Chapter 6: Interpreting in a State of Emergency: Adding Fuel to the Fire.- Chapter 7: Representing the War in Afghanistan as an American War to Russian Audiences.- Chapter 8: Ghostly Entities and Cliches: Military Interpreters in Conflict Regions.