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Schedule

Download & print Morning Running Order with Audio Translation Schedule. 

Download & print Afternoon Running Order with Audio Translation Schedule

Unless otherwise specified, the interpreters listed will be working INTO English from the Arabic (A), Chinese (C), German (G), French (F) and Spanish (S) original. 
 

Morning Debate

The following motion will be debated:

'This house believes that if the Euro fails, Europe will turn into a global backwater'

The order of proceedings are as detailed below with an audio schedule and who is interpreting when.

10.00

Welcome from the Principal of Heriot-Watt University (preceded by introduction from Dr Bernie O’Rourke )   (E)

Introduction from the Chair   Fanny Chouc (F) (approx. 5 mins)

First vote on the motion

Opening speeches (approx. 8 mins each):

Pierre-Alain Coffinier, Consul General of France (F) keynote speaker - for the motion 
José Maria Conde (S) keynote speaker – against the motion

Supporting speeches (approx. 5 mins each)

Peter Mueller-McDougall, Honorary Consul General of Switzerland (G) 2nd speaker - for the motion 
Regina Schmid (G) 2nd speaker – against the motion 
Javier Jiménez-Ugarte, Consul General of Spain (S) 3rd speaker - for the motion 
Anita le Couedic, UOC Angers (F) 3rd speaker - against the motion

11.00

Question and answer session

Questions and contributions from the audience should be addressed, in any of the conference languages, to the Chair, who will ask the panel of speakers whether any of them wish to respond.

Members of the audience wishing to put a question or make a contribution are asked to wait until the mobile
microphone reaches them before speaking.

11.30

Summing-up speeches (approx. 3 mins each)

Pierre-Alain Coffinier (F)     keynote speaker - for the motion 
José Maria Conde (S)         keynote speaker – against the motion

Final vote and thanks   Chair, Fanny Chouc (E)  (approx. 3 mins)

Running Order for Multilingual Debate

Unless otherwise specified, the interpreters listed will be working INTO English from the Arabic (A), Chinese (C), German (G), French (F) and Spanish (S) original.

The following chronological list shows where and when each student will be interpreting. It is best understood in conjunction with the itinerary on the front of the sheet which shows the list and order of speakers.

Speeches        

Booth  1

Booth  2

Booth  3

Welcome (preceded by Introduction from Dr Bernie O’Rourke) (E)

Eléonore Arbona (into F)

Stefanie Schout (into G)

Beatriz Rueda (into S)

Introduction  (F)

Brittany Deal + Karen McNeice

Iain Gaw + Steven Buchanan

Beatriz Rueda + Gordon Menzies  

Pierre-Alain Coffinier Keynote speech  (F)

Marie Jackson + Andrea Sosa-Martin 

Lori Jones + Steven Buchanan 

Alastair Gillies + Paul Duffy 

José Maria Conde 
Keynote speech (S)

Brittany Deal + Jessica Parr 

Rachel Ferguson + Deborah Thain 

Steven Giles + Sara Calder

Peter Mueller-McDougall
Supporting speech  (G)

Charlotte Farrell 

Catriona McCabe

Patricia Irvine 

Regina Schmid
Supporting speech  (G)

Marie Jackson

Catriona McCabe

Monika Izdebska

Javier Jiménez Ugarte
Supporting speech  (S)

Lori Jones + Jessica Parr 

Claire McDonald + Karen McNeice 

Iain Gaw + Deborah Thain

Anita le Couedic
Supporting speech  (F)

Kayleigh McSweeney + Carla Leone

Andrea Sosa-Martin + Louis Guiot

Rachel Ferguson  + Steven Giles 

Q&A  session 

Brittany Deal + Charlotte Farrell 

Marie Jackson +
Lori Jones 

Beatriz Rueda + Patricia Irvine 

Pierre-Alain Coffinier
Summing up  (F)

Steven Buchanan + Sara Calder 

Claire McDonald + Louis Guiot 

Catriona McCabe + Gordon Menzies 

José Maria Conde
Summing up  (S)

Charlotte Farrell + Lara Findlay 

Carla Leone + Kayleigh McSweeney 

Paul Duffy + Alastair Gillies 

Final vote and thanks  (E)

Eléonore Arbona (into F)

Stefanie Schout (into G)

Katarzina Wisniewska +  Monika Izdebska
(into Polish)

 

 

Afternoon Debate

The following motion will be debated:

'This house believes that the spread of Globish (Global English) will enhance inter-cultural communication'

The order of proceedings are as detailed below with an audio schedule and who is interpreting when.

14.00

Welcome from Professor Gill Hogg  (preceded by introduction from Dr Bernie O’Rourke )   (E)

Introduction from the Chair Isabelle Perez (F) (approx. 5 mins)

First vote on the motion

Opening speeches (approx. 8 mins each):

Robert McCrum, Associate Editor at the Observer (E) keynote speaker - for the motion 
Wolfgang Moessinger, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany (G)  keynote  – against the motion

Supporting speeches (approx. 5 mins each)

Li Ruiyou, Consul General of the People's Republic of China (C) 2nd speaker - for the motion 
Fernando Leon-Solis, University of the West of Scotland  (S)   2nd speaker – against the motion
Nachwan Driai (A) 3rd speaker - for the motion
Fanny Chouc (F) 3rd speaker - against the motion 

15.00

Question and answer session

Questions and contributions from the audience should be addressed, in any of the conference languages, to the Chair, who will ask the panel of speakers whether any of them wish to respond.

Members of the audience wishing to put a question or make a contribution are asked to wait until the mobile
microphone reaches them before speaking.

15.30

Summing-up speeches (approx. 3 mins each)

Robert McCrum (E)             keynote speaker - for the motion 
Wolfgang Moessinger (G)  keynote speaker – against the motion

Final vote and thanks      Chair, Isabelle Perez (E) (approx. 3 mins)

Running Order for Multilingual Debate

Unless otherwise specified, the interpreters listed will be working INTO English from the Arabic (A), Chinese (C), German (G), French (F) and Spanish (S) original. 

The following chronological list shows where and when each student will be interpreting. It is best understood in conjunction with the itinerary on the front of the sheet which shows the list and order of speakers.

Speeches

Booth  1

Booth  2

Booth  3

Welcome (E)

Carolin Pfaller
(in to G) 

Laura De Lorenzo Alba
( in to S)

Raphael Bien
( in to F)

Introduction (F)

Jose Conzalez Alcaide
Natalie Cosset

Christina Marechal
Muriel Kusovsky

Patrick Harris

Robert McCrum
Keynote speech (E) 

Widad Hassan
George Samaan
(in to A)

Nicola Haggerty 
Ana Patterson
(in to S)

Simon Chiassai
Anaïs Moreau
(in to F)

Wolfgang Moessinger  
Keynote speech (G) 

Maria Theresia Geyer
Klaus Dieter Haensel

Carolin Pfaller
Jana Six

Jan Wasserman-Fry
Laura Bisby

Li Ruiyou
Supporting speech (C)

Miao Gao
Wei Jiang

Lu Wang
Zhe Xu

Wei Yin
Jiayi Yuan

Fernando Leon-Solis 
Supporting speech (S)

Jose Conzalez Alcaide

Christina Marechal
Fernando Lattore Mirò

Patrick Harris
Katherine Bell

Nachwan Driai
Supporting speech (A)

Amro Abed Alhaq
Tahani Hamad

Izdehar Alodhami
Abusaief Ali

Razan Al Mohammad
Doris Sansur

Fanny Chouc
Supporting speech (F)

Ruth Mulvenna
Raphael Bien

 Laura Bisby
Chiaran Neeson

Ross David Millar
Simon Chiassai

Q & A

Alaa Abdalsamad (A)
Natalie Cosset (F)

Xin Li (C)
Katherine Bell (S)

Katharina Mergl (G)

Robert McCrum
Summing up  (E)

Alaa Abdalsamad
(in to A)

Berta Caragol
(in to S)

Lénaig Le Poullennec
( in to F)

Wolfgang Moessinger
Summing up  (G)

Katharina Mergl

Klaus Dieter Haensel

Jan Wasserman-Fry

Final vote and thanks
(F)

Lénaig Le Poullennec

Ross David Millar

Ruth Mulvenna

We would like to thank our in-house translation and interpreting agency, Integrated Language Services (ILS), which has supplied the conference interpreting equipment. ILS offers translation and conference interpreting services to business and industry. For more details visit www.hw.ac.uk/ils