We kindly invite you to participate in the 1^st Congress of Polish Translation Studies (I KONGRES POLSKIEGO PRZEKŁADOZNAWSTWA), which due to the current epidemiological situation has been rescheduled to May 2022. The event will held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the conference language is Polish.

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You are kindy invited to participate in an online conference for doctoral students to be held at the  Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul on 12-13th November 2020.

Read the Call for papers for further information.

The Journal of Specialised Translation has announced a call for papers to be published  in Special Issue 36b entitled Teaching Translation and Interpreting in Virtual Environments. You are kindly invited to submit your paper for a double blind peer review. Read here for more details.

Below you will find information about the EACT project.

The objective of the EACT project (2019-2022), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PGC2018-094275-B-I00), is to establish evaluation procedures for different levels of acquisition of Translation Competence (TC) in undergraduate translation degrees in Spain. Seventeen researchers from six universities are participating in EACT: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Granada, Universitat Jaume I, Universidad de País, Vasco y Universidade de Vigo, and the University of Westminster (UK).

For more details, see the EACT website.

The Institute of Applied Linguistics of the University of Warsaw kindly invites  you to participate in the 7th conference in the Imago mundi series, under the title of Teaches, entertains, dumbfounds, frightens … The roles of the translator and translation in the modern world, which will be held on  25th-26th June 2020 in Warsaw.

The conference themes will cover, among others:

• contemporary roles and position of translation and the translator – his ecosystem, working conditions, identity and self-awareness;
• changes in translation strategies and techniques forced by translation initiators and recipients, or proposed by translators;
• the impact of new tools on the translation process;
• new forms of translation activity and new didactic models.

Two panel discussions, devoted to the present state of translation and its future, are also being planned.

For more details see the conference site.

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We kindly invite you to the eleventh conference in the series Language in the Third Millennium. The conferences so far (2000-2018) have been held in Polish only.  This time, however, the conference will be international, with presentations delivered in both English and Polish. The event will be held on 25-27 March in Krakow, Poland (Wednesday-Friday).

For more details, please access the conference website at: https://tertium.edu.pl/en/conferences/language-in-the-third-millenium-eleven-.html

In commemoration of International Translation Day, on 30th September 2019, the Consortium for Translation Education Research (CTER) and the Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication organised the symposium and round-table discussion on “The Identity of the Translator – the Identity of Translation Studies”.

The symposium was held in Jagiellonian University’s Collegium Paderevianum, located at al. Mickiewicza 9a in Kraków, Poland and was an opportunity to discuss the status of Translation Studies in the European and Polish academic context.

PACTE Group is organising two events on the subject of the didactics of translation to be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in July 2020:

1. FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH INTO THE DIDACTICS OF TRANSLATION (8-10 July 2020)

2. FOURTH SPECIALIST SEMINAR ON THE DIDACTICS OF TRANSLATION (7 July 2020)

For more information on both events please visit: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/pacte/en/circular1en

With a great pleasure, we would like to announce that Professor Maria Piotrowska has been re-elected as CTER President! Congratulations!

CTER President Election 2019 Committee