{"id":481,"date":"2024-10-21T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/?p=481"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:40:44","slug":"tic-2025-translators-interpreters-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/tic-2025-translators-interpreters-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"TIC 2025: Translators, Interpreters, and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 4th<\/sup> instalment of the international conference Translation, Interpretation, and Culture<\/strong><\/a> will take place on 24 \u2013 26 September 2025<\/strong> in Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Slovakia. Call for papers is open until 31 January 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Esperan\u00e7a Bielsa (Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona)
\nIvana \u010ce\u0148kov\u00e1 (Charles University in Prague)
\nRen\u00e9e Desjardins (Universit\u00e9 de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg [Treaty 1], Canada)
\nLuc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu \/ KU Leuven)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Organized by<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u2022 Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Slovakia<\/div>\n
\u2022 Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia<\/div>\n
\u2022 Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/div>\n
\u2022 Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/div>\n
\u2022 Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aims and purpose<\/strong><\/div>\n
The conference aims to explore the intricate relationship between translation, interpreting, and societal dynamics. We seek papers investigating how translators and interpreters influence and are influenced by cultural, political, and social forces, shaping and reflecting society\u2019s evolving needs.<\/div>\n
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Call for papers<\/strong><\/div>\n
Translation and interpreting are deeply intertwined with society. The relationship between translators & interpreters and society, shaped by both field-specific and more general factors such as economic models, geopolitical shifts, and political decisions, is a complex one and translation as a social activity is deeply embedded in the fabric of cultural exchange and influenced by broader social dynamics. Research into the connections of the social and translation and interpreting in the past decades has been rich and translation has increasingly come to be viewed as a \u201csocially situated relation with difference\u201d (van Doorslaer \u2013 McMartin 2022, 1). Translation and interpreting practitioners and researchers are then understood as \u201ccomplex, situated agents acting within and across the social spheres that condition cross-cultural, multilingual exchange\u201d (1). Following what some have termed the social or sociological turn in translation studies (cf., e.g., Angelelli 2014; Doorslaer and McMartin 2022), and Andrew Chesterman\u2019s (2009) proposal for translator studies, there has been a growing focus on the habitus of translators and interpreters. The issues surrounding both the experienced and perceived habitus of these professionals, along with other agents involved in the process and the factors shaping it, have attracted significant research interest. However, the steady stream of new publications looking into these issues (cf., e.g., Atefmehr and Farahzad 2021, Chen 2024, Djov\u010do\u0161 et al. 2020, Kolb and P\u00f6llabauer 2023), including the concentrated revisiting of Lawrence Venuti\u2019s concept of invisibility (Freeth and Trevi\u00f1o 2024) suggests that many questions about how translation and interpreting practitioners navigate the world, as well<\/div>\n
as how society perceives them, remain unanswered (and undiscovered).<\/div>\n
The fourth instalment of the Translation, Interpreting, and Culture conference series, titled Translators, Interpreters, and Society, invites contributions that explore the complex interplay between translators & interpreters and the societies which shape them and are shaped by them. We aim to highlight the societal positioning, perceptions, and evolving roles of translators and interpreters engaged in social processes which inevitably change them (Bielsa 2022, 404) and to explore how they both influence and are influenced by the cultural, political, and social forces surrounding them. The goal of this conference is to explore the reciprocal relationship between translators, interpreters, and society \u2013 how they shape societal dynamics and, in turn, how they are shaped by social forces, perceptions, and expectations. We aim to address questions including, but not limited to:<\/div>\n
\u2022 Perception of translators & interpreters by society, perception of society by translators & interpreters, and self-perception of translators & interpreters<\/div>\n
\u2022 Translators\u2019 & interpreters\u2019 role responding to societal challenges and societal polarization<\/div>\n
\u2022 Translating futures: shaping the profession in the age of social and technological transformation<\/div>\n
\u2022 Translators in periodicals as society-shaping agents: formation of actor-networks that establish periodicals as nodes in transnational networks; translation agents in periodicals and activism<\/div>\n
\u2022 Activism in translation & interpreting and the evolving role of translators and interpreters<\/div>\n
\u2022 Constructing viable professional narratives (not only) in the classroom<\/div>\n
\u2022 Translation and interpreting for social equity: addressing access and inclusion disparities<\/div>\n
\u2022 The evolution and diversification of translation and interpreting studies in response to social changes and transformations.<\/div>\n
\u2022 The social and cultural impact of translation and interpreting in the age of technological transformation<\/div>\n
\u2022 Images and roles of (not only) literary translators across the history<\/div>\n
\u2022 Training new generations of translators and interpreters and adjusting curricula to meet new challenges<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Organizing committee<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u2022 Martin Djov\u010do\u0161 (Matej Bel University, Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Slovakia)<\/div>\n
\u2022 Em\u00edlia Perez (Constatine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia)<\/div>\n
\u2022 Pavol \u0160veda (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)<\/div>\n
\u2022 M\u00e1ria Kus\u00e1 (Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)<\/div>\n
\u2022 Ivana Hostov\u00e1 (Constatine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia and Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)<\/div>\n
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Submission guidelines<\/strong><\/div>\n
The conference languages are English and Slovak. If you wish to present the paper in German, Spanish, French or Russian, please indicate so in the abstract. However, in view of the later publication we strongly recommend the use of English. All abstracts are to be submitted in English.<\/div>\n
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted by 31 January 2025<\/strong> to registration@tic-conference.eu. Please include the title of your paper, your full name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Submissions will be reviewed by the conference committee, and notifications of acceptance will be sent by 10 March 2025<\/strong>. All abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed by the members of the scientific board.<\/div>\n
We encourage contributions from scholars at all career stages, as well as practitioners who can provide insights from the field. Interdisciplinary approaches that draw on sociology, anthropology, and political science are particularly welcome, as are case studies and empirical research.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conference website: www.tic-conference.eu<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Contact email: registration@tic-conference.eu<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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References<\/strong><\/div>\n
Angelelli, Claudia V., ed. 2014. The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies.<\/div>\n
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.<\/div>\n
Atefmehr, Zahra and Farahzad, Farzaneh. 2021. \u201cMicrohistorical research in translator studies: an archival methodology.\u201d The Translator 28 (3): 251-262.<\/div>\n
https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13556509.2021.1944022<\/a><\/span>.<\/div>\n
Bielsa, Esperan\u00e7a. 2022. \u201cFor a Translational Sociology: Illuminating Translation in Society, Theory and Research.\u201d European Journal of Social Theory.<\/div>\n
https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13684310211002132<\/a><\/span>.<\/div>\n
Chen, Lin. 2024. \u201cThe translator\u2019s sociological biography and life telos: the case of John<\/div>\n
Minford.\u201d Perspectives 1-17. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0907676X.2024.2376713<\/a><\/span>.<\/div>\n
Chesterman, Andrew. 2009. \u201cThe Name and Nature of Translator Studies.\u201d Hermes. Journal of Language and Communication in Business 42: 13-22.<\/div>\n
Djov\u010do\u0161, Martin, Hostov\u00e1, Ivana, Perez, Em\u00edlia, and \u0160veda, Pavol. 2020. \u201cThe economies of interlingual intercultural transfer: towards a complex picture of translators and interpreters<\/div>\n
in Slovakia.\u201d World Literature Studies 12 (1): 45-66.<\/div>\n
Freeth, Peter J. and Trevi\u00f1o, Rafael. 2024. Beyond the Translator\u2019s Invisibility. Critical Reflections and New Perspectives. Leuven: Leuven University Press.<\/div>\n
Kolb, Waltraud and P\u00f6llabauer, Sonja. 2023. \u201cWomen as interpreters in colonial New Netherland.\u201d In Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz P\u00f6chhacker, ed. by Cornelia Zwischenberger, Karin Reithofer, and Sylvi Rennert, 126-146. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Bejnamins.<\/div>\n
van Doorslaer, Luc and McMartin, Jack. 2022. \u201cWhere translation studies and the social meet. Setting the scene for \u2018Translation in Society.\u2019\u201d Translation in Society 1 (1): 1-14.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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