1st Edition

Reimagining Conference Interpreting in the Age of AI

By Ozum Arzik-Erzurumlu Copyright 2026
192 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Employing a sociological lens and and building on data from interviews with 26 freelance conference interpreters and two focus groups, this book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of freelance conference interpreters’ experiences working in remote interpreting contexts during the COVID pandemic, a period in which standard practices were severely disrupted and dismantled. It traces... Read more

Introduction, Chapter 1: Evolving modes of conference interpreting: Literature, practice, and the research agenda from the prepandemic era to the present, Chapter 2: The early pandemic: Disruption of habitus and enablers, Chapter 3: Mid-pandemic: Gains and losses, Chapter 4: Resettling into the booths: Nostalgia and resistance, Chapter 5: The future of conference interpreting: A Zone of insecurity.

Biography

Ozum Arzik-Erzurumlu is a Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Before joining the University of Illinois, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2022–2024) and served as Associate and Assistant Professor at Bahçeşehir University and Atlas University in Istanbul. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including Translation and Interpreting Studies and Interpreting. Arzik-Erzurumlu is an accredited professional conference interpreter with Turkish (A), English (B), and Spanish (C).