Dear Colleagues,

At the request of Katalin Fogarasi, Foreign Affairs Secretary, I am forwarding the AELFE conference call for papers.

New Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies 2026

https://www.intercultural.urv.cat/en/conferences/nrtis/nrtis-2026a/

 

The Intercultural Studies Group is pleased to announce its eighth international conference, to be held in Tarragona, Spain, 25-27 June 2026.

Language: English.

Format: Speakers will be given 20 minutes to present their project; each presentation will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. This format is designed to promote international contacts among researchers.

Topics: Speakers should present new research on some aspect of translation and interpreting, with a view to indicating future developments of the field. 

Deadlines: Abstracts can be proposed until April 1, 2026. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 15, 2026. If acceptance is needed earlier for funding purposes, please make a request as early as possible.

Registration: Once your abstract has been accepted, you will be invited to register officially and pay the conference fee (see below). 

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A PRESENTATION HERE

IF YOU NEED ACCEPTANCE TO ARRANGE FUNDING, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP YOU GET TO TARRAGONA. 

Panel sessions: Selected papers will be grouped into workshops on: 

– New technologies

– Translation history

– Audiovisual translation

– Translation reception 

– Translation policies 

Keynote Speakers

	David Orrego-Carmona Associate Professor in Translation Studies, Warwick University “My research deals primarily with translation, technologies and users. It analyses how translation technologies empower professional and non-professional translators and how the democratisation of technology allows translation users to become non-professional translators.”
	Kayoko Takeda  Senior Specially Appointed Professor, Rikkyo University, Tokyo “The primary focus of my research is how states engage with the practice of interpreting and translation, especially in the context of war.”

Venue: The conference will be at the Campus Catalunya of Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 35 Avinguda Catalunya, Tarragona.

Fees: General fee: 160€; URV staff members and past students of the URV doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies: 50€.

The conference will partly be a celebration of the doctoral program in Translation and Intercultural Studies organized at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili from 2003. More than 40 doctors graduated from the program, and many will attend the conference.

The event will also mark the retirement of Anthony Pym, coordinator of the doctoral program.

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