Biographies
Maura Radicioni is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Interpreting Studies at FTI, University of Geneva (Switzerland), with a research project on humanitarian interpreting. She has an MA in Conference Interpreting from the University of Bologna, DIT at Forlì and is a practicing conference interpreter, as well as interpreter trainer. She was a lecturer in English-Italian liaison and conference interpreting at the Forlì-based DIT of the University of Bologna from 2003 to 2019, with teaching assignments also at the University of Macerata and Università Politecnica delle Marche. From July to October 2017 she was involved as a trainer in the first humanitarian interpreting pilot course carried out in Italy, organised by the University of Bologna DIT and the University of Geneva FTI. She is currently a member of a team of trainers for the FTI-ICRC programme to train ICRC humanitarian interpreters.
E-mail: Maura.Radicioni@etu.unige.ch
Lucía Ruiz Rosendo is an Associate Professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Her main areas of research are interpreting in conflict zones and scenarios, and interpreter training. She has been involved in the development of blended learning courses for interpreters. She currently teaches on the MA in Conference Interpreting and the MAS in Interpreter Training (University of Geneva). She is the coordinator and trainer for the FTI-ICRC programme to train ICRC interpreters who work in the field and for the FTI-UNOG course “Interpreting in UN field missions”. She has presented at several international conferences and is the author of a number of scholarly papers on the topic of interpreting in armed conflicts.
E-mail: Lucia.Ruiz@unige.ch