Workshop: Future(s) of Translation Studies, 17 Jan 2025

Join us for an afternoon workshop on Friday 17 Jan, 2025 to contemplate what the future might hold for Translation Studies, and what future landscapes we can envision for the field. The workshop consists of presentations, followed by a commentary by Professor Anthony Pym (University of Melbourne, Australia), a heavy weight in translation studies. The event is co-organized by the Changing Translatorial Landscapes research group and JARGONFREE.

The Future(s) of Translation Studies

Friday 17 January 2025
Tampere University, Linna K113
13.00-15.30 (no online participation)

To manage space requirements and refreshments, we kindly ask you to fill in the registration form.

Programme

13.00-14.00
Kaisa Koskinen: Welcome
Mattia Thibault: Interreal translations – Expanding the reach of TS
Mikhail Mikhailov: Lenin lives? Translations of Lenin’s works as an instrument of ‘eternisation’
Maija Hirvonen, Annamari Korhonen & Raphael Sannholm: Distributed and interactional perspectives on translation processes
Kaisa Koskinen & Mary Nurminen: Paraprofessional translation at work
Riku Haapaniemi & Jenni Laaksonen: Sustainability reporting as translation
Anne Ketola: Sustainable supply chain contracts: Translating jargon into actionable language
Break 15 min
14.15-15.00 Anthony Pym’s commentary
15.00-15.30 Discussion