Birgit Menzel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgit Menzel plays a role.
Article
2019 The interpreter as a citizen diplomat: Interpreters’ role in a grassroots movement to end the Cold War Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:3, pp. 464–478 | Article
The article presents a case of interpretation as a political activity during the Cold War. In the 1980s and 1990s, a grassroots citizen diplomacy movement was initiated by the Californian Esalen Institute, the center of the American Human Potential Movement. In and around its Soviet-American… read more