This volume contains selected papers from the 1st Forle Conference on Interpreting Studies. The papers seek to take stock of the situation, at the turn of the 21st century, in research, training and the profession.

1. Foreword (by Snelling, David C.); 2. Introduction (by Garzone, Giuliana); 3. Focus on research; 4. Interpreting research: Descriptive aspects and methodological proposals (by Riccardi, Alessandra); 5. A methodology for the analysis of interpretation corpora (by Setton, Robin); 6. Resurrecting the corp(us|se): Towards an encoding standard for interpreting data (by Cencini, Marco); 7. Retrospection as a method of studying the process of simultaneous interpreting (by Vik-Tuovinen, Gun-Viol); 8. Exploring hesitation in consecutive interpreting: An empirical study (by Mead, Peter); 9. Anthroponyms, acronyms and allocutives in interpreting from Russian (by Salmon Kovarski, Laura); 10. Researching interpreting quality: Models and methods (by Pochhacker, Franz); 11. Quality and norms in interpretation (by Garzone, Giuliana); 12. Quality in interpreting and its prerequisites: A framework for a comprehensive view (by Kalina, Sylvia); 13. Interpreting outside the conference hall; 14. Community interpreter training: Past, present, future (by Niska, Helge); 15. Language as a human right: The challenges for legal interpreting (by Hertog, Erik); 16. Medical interpreting: Some salient features (by Meyer, Bernd); 17. Spoken-language and signed-language interpretation: Are they really so different? (by Kellett Bidoli, Cynthia Jane); 18. Interpreters for peace (by Monacelli, Claudia); 19. Physiological stress responses during media and conference interpreting (by Kurz, Ingrid); 20. New perspectives and challenges for interpretation: The example of television (by Mack, Gabriele); 21. Linguistic mediation on Italian television: When the interpreter is not an interpreter: a case study (by Chiaro, Delia); 22. Interpreter training; 23. The quest for optimal relevance: The need to equip students with a pragmatic compass (by Viaggio, Sergio); 24. Aptitude and Conference Interpretation: A proposal for a testing methodology based on paraphrase (by Pippa, Salvador); 25. The role of linguistics in the interpreter's curriculum (by Santulli, Francesca); 26. Autonomy of the interpreted text (by Garwood, Christopher John); 27. Computer-assisted interpreter training (by Gran, Laura); 28. Interpreting in the 21st century: What lies ahead: Summary of the closing panel discussion (by Amato, Amalia); 29. References; 30. Name index; 31. Subject index