COMING IN 2025

TEACHING TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING 7 (2025)

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 7th international conference on TEACHING TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (TTI 7), organised by the Department of Translation Studies and Language Pedagogy at the University of Lodz. The conference will take place on 23-24 May 2025.

The conference draws on the success of five previous TTI conferences, held in April 2008 and 2009, October 2011, November 2014, September 2017 and September 2019 where it was unanimously decided that meetings devoted to theoretical and practical aspects of translator training, translation didactics and translation curricula are a necessity.
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philology, 171/173 Pomorska Street, Lodz, Poland.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • translator and interpreter training  

  • changing landscape of translation as a profession – trends, challenges and professional ethics 

  • continuous professional development for translators and interpreters 

  • professional development for translator teachers 

  • technology in translation education - AI and machine translation integration 

  • interdisciplinary approaches in translation education - holistic training, cross-disciplinary insights 

  • metacognitive aspects of translation and translation education - self-regulation, self-reflection, self-concept

  • bridging academia-industry gap 

  • collaborative initiatives and project-based training

  • multi-dimensional translator competence 

  • effective feedback in translation education

  • peer interaction and collaborative learning in training environments

  • revising and post-editing

  • adapting to changing industry standards

Professor Carmen Heine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Ricardo Muñoz Martín, University of Bologna, Italy
Professor Aleksander Gomola, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

Organising committee

Chair

Paulina Pietrzak, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Scientific secretary

Michał Kornacki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Members:

Ms Agata Sadza

Mr Przemysław Boczarski 

Advisory board

Professor Łukasz Bogucki


Conference veue

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź, Poland.

Address:
ul.Pomorska 171/173
90-236 Łodź

Conference dinner veue

to be announced...

DEADLINES

  • the deadline for submission of abstracts for the conference is 31 January 2025.
  • notification of acceptance will be emailed to participants by 15 February 2025.

CONFERENCE FEE

The cost of conference registration is 200 EUR .

Conference participation is subsidised for participants from Poland. The conference fee for Polish participants (working in Poland only) is 450 PLN .

In case of co-authored presentations with both authors present each person is required to pay the conference fee.

The conference fee includes a welcome conference pack, book of abstracts, lunches, coffee breaks, participation in all sessions, certificate of attendance, special rates for selected hotels, review and publication procedures.

The price is exclusive of the conference dinner on Friday evening which can be purchased separately.

Abstract submission

Participants intending to give a paper should send a 200-300 word DOCX abstract (excluding references and bio) to Michał Kornacki (michal.kornacki@uni.lodz.pl).

The abstract submission should contain:

  • the title of the paper

  • the name(s) and academic title(s) of the author(s)

  • the full name(s) and address(es) of the affiliation(s)/institute(s) of the author(s)

  • the theme(s) (see the list of themes) that the paper covers in the top right hand corner of the document submitted

  • a list of references (max. 5). Please use Harvard citation style.

  • a short bio of the participant (50-100 words)

 

The official language of the conference is English.

Please name your e-mail: TTI REGISTRATION


Registration

Once your abstract has been accepted, we will send a registration form.


Contact

Michal Kornacki (michal.kornacki@uni.lodz.pl)