27 de noviembre (jueves):

Reflections on the history of interpreting and interpreters
Conferenciante: Jesús Baigorri Jalón 

Hora: 13:00
Lugar: Aula 4, Facultad de Traducción y Documentación
En línea: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83156668088 Meeting ID: 831 5666 8088

Conferencia presencial y en línea abierta a estudiantes del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Salamanca

Jesús Baigorri-Jalón is a person with a long professional career, divided, in short, between a period as a geography and history teacher (in high school and university) in Salamanca (co- founder of the “Cronos” research group, which won the 1st “Giner de los Ríos” National Prize for Educational Innovation in 1984) and in London; another as an interpreter at the United Nations in New York, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the birth of the conference interpreting profession; a third as an associate professor of interpreting and interpreter in Salamanca until his retirement (co-founder of the international research group “Alfaqueque”); and finally, as a retiree, he has continued to interpret, publish, and organize exhibitions on the history of interpreting (the last one Language interpreters around 1945: Echoes from History, Nov. 20, 2025). In October 2025 he was granted a Doctorate honoris causa by the University of Geneva.

Organiza: African Higher Education in Emergencies Network en colaboración con el Máster en Traducción y Mediación Intercultural de la Universidad de Salamanca

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