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Together with Interverbum, Informationsteknik and The Stockholm Trade Fair, aiic-Sweden arranged a seminar on communication and conference interpretation.
Fredrik Lindström (well-known in Sweden for his TV-show on language issues) was the keynote speaker, and held an address entitled "Communication without Borders".
Next, the French ambassador to Sweden, Denis Delbourg, dwelled on communication between languages.
Maria Hemph-Moran presented the prize on behalf of aiic. In the absence of the Speaker, the Speaker's press officer Anna Wieslander was present to receive the prize on his behalf.
David Jones addressed the audience on the working conditions of the simultaneous interpreter and the morning was concluded with a panel debate on conferences and communication.
The participants had the opportunity to try interpreting in a booth provided exclusively for this purpose by Informationsteknik.
In addition to this karaoke interpreting in the lobby, aiic also had screens describing the profession and a slideshow on interpreting today, as well as a display of the aiic home page.
aiic has recived an official letter of thanks from Björn von Sydow in which he expresses his gratitude and writes that "the award has inspired me to intensify my work with language issues in the Riksdag. I know that this issue engages a lot of people. The language seminars we have held have been very popular."
All photos were taken by Per Westergård.
Breakfast and get together in the lobby of Filmhuset.
Key-note speaker Fredrik Lindström.
The French ambassador to Sweden, Denis Delbourg, who took the opportunity to honour a profession (interpreters) crucial to his own profession, as he put it.
The audience listening to the speech with the help of interpretation.
Trying interpreting was a great success.
aiic-Sweden's homepage was of course demonstrated.
Maria Hemph-Moran handing the prize, designed by aiic-member and designer, Isabelle Mouchet, to the Speaker's press officer Anna Wieslander.
The seminar was of course interpreted, into Swedish and English, here by David Jones and Linda Schenck.
David Jones addressing the audience on the interpreting profession.
I the final paneldebate, moderated by Lars Larsson, Matilda Hultgren, Katarina Villner, Kati Engsner and Peter Hellman participated.