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CTER Symposium 2019

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.

2nd CTER Congress 14-15 March 2019, Krakow

cter2019We are pleased to inform that the 2nd CTER Congress, organised by the Consortium for Translation Education Research, will be held on 14th-15th March 2019 in Krakow, Poland. We are sorry to have modified the original date, yet we had to do so due to organisational reasons. The lead theme of the conference is Complexity and Dispersion in Translation Pedagogy.

For more details visit the conference website.

Translation and Performative Practices: Tartu, 13-15 Dec 2018

On behalf of the organisers, we would like to kindly invite you to participate in the conference entitled Translation and Performative Practices: Itineraries in Translation History. The 4th conference of the Itineraries in Translation History series will focus on the elusive translation and interpreting practices related to texts that are in constant change and movement from a historical perspective and will be held  on 13th-15th December,  2018 in Tartu, Estonia.

For more information, visit the conference website at: https://www.maailmakeeled.ut.ee/en/itineraries-in-translation-history-IV.

Translation in History – History in Translation 2018

The second international summer school on Translation History in Vienna will be held on 12-19th September, 2018 in Vienna. The event will be organised by the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna.

Invited speakers include:
Dilek Dizdar (University of Mainz/ Germersheim)
Carsten Sinner (University of Leipzig)
Michaela Wolf (University of Graz)
Christopher Rundle (University of Bologna)

For more information please visit: https://summerschool-translation-history.univie.ac.at

Issue 4 of TETS Journal out now!

mag_cover2The latest issue of our academic journal, entitled The Journal of Translator Education and Translation Studies, has just been published.

Issue 4 of the journal (dated December 2017) is out now, and another is due out in March 2018. The Academic Editor of the journal is Prof.  Maria Piotrowska (Jagiellonian University), and the Editor-in-Chief is dr Mariusz Marczak (Jagiellonian University).

The magazine is available electronically, on an open-access basis at: http://www.tetsjournal.org

You are welcome to  read the new journal and publish your own contributions in the forthcoming issue.

CTER Seminar for Translation Teachers 2017

The Consortium for Translation Education Research (CTER) is pleased to announce the CTER Training Seminar for Translation Teachers with the endorsement of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST), which will be held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on 26th-30th June 2017 (Monday-Friday).

The seminar training sessions will be led by renowned translator educators, including Anthony Pym (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona), Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Gary Massey (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) and Christina Schaeffner (Aston University, Birmingham).

More details on the seminar are available here.