Interpreting in the Gray Zone: Where Community and Legal Interpreting Intersect

Interpreting Legal Constructivism

Where Information Society and Community Voice Intersect

Interpreting Heisenberg Interpreting Quantum States

The paper investigates possible readings of the later Heisenberg's remarks on the nature of quantum states. It discusses, in particular, whether Heisenberg should be seen as a proponent of the epistemic conception of states---the view that quantum states are not descriptions of quantum systems but rather reflect the state assigning observers' epistemic relations to these systems. On the one han...

Justice in Jerusalem — Interpreting in Israeli Legal Proceedings

This article discusses the background to present-day attitudes towards interpreting in the Israeli judicial system. It outlines traditional Jewish approaches to language issues in legal proceedings, as well as pragmatic solutions adopted in the early years of the Jewish state. A comparison is provided of interpreting arrangements at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the mid-1980s proceedings ag...

Interpreting nucleolar structure: where are the transcribing genes?

The nucleolus, the site of ribosomal RNA synthesis, provides us with one of the best opportunities for unravelling the relationships between transcription and the spatial organization of chromatin. Some of the. best visualizations of the transcription process have come from nucleolar spread preparations (Miller, 1981) but this procedure introduces major structural reorganizations that deny us a...