Fourth CTER Congress 2025

CTER 2025 HAS THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES

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Following the three CTER Congresses we have held in the years 2016, 2019 and 2022, we kindly invite you to participate in the 4th CTER Congress, which will be held with the aim to explore human added value and new, emerging concepts of translation in an age of a technology-driven global LSP industry offering largely outsourced, time-saving and cost-effective language services involving a wide spectrum of forms and types of translation. Paradoxically, and contrary to numerous voices of concern, the increasing automation of translation processes seems to be foregrounding the need for (re-)positioning human language mediators to maximise their value-adding potential which manifests itself in the now largely desired transferable, adaptive, (inter-)personal service-provision skills which are necessary for effective interaction not only with the stakeholders in the LSP industry but also the relevant technologies, e.g. AI.

We sincerely hope that the Congress, addressed to specialists from the field of Translation Studies and Translation Pedagogy and professional translators, will create an opportunity to examine the current state of affairs in the field, both on a theoretical and practical plane, reflect on the relevant research findings and share inspirations with a view to providing an interface between translator education and the translation profession.

Plenary speakers

 We are proud to announce that CTER 2025 will be hosting representatives of academia, industry and the publishing market. Our plenary speakers will be:

  • Dr Agenor Hoffman-Delbor (localize.pl)
  • Joss Moorkens (Dublin City University, Ireland)
  • Lucia Pintado Gutierrez (APTIS, President of the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies/Dublin City University)
  • Anthony Pym (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain/University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Louisa Semlyen (Routledge)

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

  • New value(s) in T/I pedagogy
  • Emerging educational methods, techniques and tools to meet industry needs
  • Pedagogical approaches to translation, interpreting and other forms of language mediation
  • Educating for new language industry professions and emerging professional profiles
  • T/I technologies facilitating online/on-site teaching and learning
  • Educational needs for translators, interpreters and other language mediators
  • (Re-)positioning and educating humans in translation and translator education
  • Human – machine interactions and interfaces and the related challenges

Conference format and languages:

The conference will be held on-site at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The main language of the conference is English but some papers (in dedicated sessions) may be delivered in Polish (subject to interest).

Paper presentations:

The length for paper presentations is 20 minutes, with 10 minutes’ Q&A. The  Congress will also host a general meeting of CTER members (open to prospective members). 

Registration and abstract submission:

Registration of conference participants and speakers will be administered through the Coffee system. The hyperlink to it will be published here. Below you will find the steps you need to take to register (and submit an abstract).

  1. Prior to registration, please read the following terms and conditions file 1 and file 2, which you will need to accept in the process.
  2. Follow the link to registration and fill out the form to set up your individual account in the Coffee system.

Note. Do not forget to provide VAT details if you need an invoice.

  1. Speaking participants are kindly requested to register as Speakers. Non-speaking attendants need to register as Participants.

Note. The roles of Plenary Speaker, (member of) Organising committee and Volunteer are reserved exclusively for those who have received a written request from CTER to register in these roles.

  1. Once your account is ready, click here to log into your account. On doing so, speakers will be requested to submit an abstract of 200-300 words, excluding the title (<150 characters) and references (if applicable). All submissions will be subject to anonymous review by the Conference Board and notifications of acceptance/rejection will be delivered  by email.

Note. Complete all the data under the grey tabs (Abstract details, Authors and Institutions, Abstract title and text, and Options). In the case of joint presentations, all the speakers planning to attend the conference must register individually, but only one of them needs to submit the abstract.

Options related to fee payment and invoices will open in due course. Follow CTER 2025 announcements.

Publication and submission of full articles:

We are planning for a selection of the best papers to be published in an acclaimed Translation Studies journal in 2026/2027. That is why, authors interested in having their article published in the journal will be asked to submit the full version by 31 May 2025.

Conference fees:

  • Reduced fee (for registered CTER/EST members)
    PLN650 (for those from Poland)/EUR130
  • Regular fee (for non-CTER/non-EST members)
    750PLN (for those from Poland)/EUR150

Important dates:

  • CTER 2025: SECOND CIRCULAR: Sep 2024
  • Abstract submission: by 31 Oct 2024
  • Acceptance notification: 30 Nov 2024
  • Registration/payment: 1 Dec 2024 – 15 Jan 2025
  • Submission of full papers: 31 May 2025
  • Paper publication: 2026/27

Conference Board: 

  • Prof. Łucja Biel, Warsaw University
  • Prof. Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences/EST Secretary General
  • Prof. Konrad Klimkowski, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
  • Prof. Gary Massey, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  • Prof. Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University
  • Prof. Paulina Pietrzak, University of Łódź
  • Prof. Maria Piotrowska, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • Prof. Anthony Pym, University of Melbourne and Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  • Prof. Elisabet Tiselius, University of Bergen/EST President
  • Prof. Bogusława Whyatt, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Organising Committee: 

  • Mariusz Marczak, PhD, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • Urszula Paradowska, PhD, Jacob of Paradies University (JPU) in Gorzów
  • Agnieszka Seweryn, PhD, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • Monika Zabrocka-Śliwka, PhD, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • Agata Sadza, University of Łódź

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