CETRA is pleased to help distribute the final programme for this conference co-organised by CETRA members Beatrijs Vanacker and Francis Mus
The international conference Putting Translators on the Map will take place from 4 to 5 November 2025 in Ghent, Belgium, jointly hosted by KU Leuven, UGent, and ULiège.
The conference seeks to explore how translators have shaped cultural, intellectual, and political cartographies across time, and how their roles, agency, and visibility can be reimagined through new theoretical and historical lenses.
The two-day event includes:
- Keynote lectures by Marie-Alice Belle (Université de Montréal) on “Beyond (in)visibility, the rhizome of early modern translation” and Patrick Hersant (Paris-8) on “Visibilité du traducteur”.
- Parallel sessions on Translating scientific discourses, Translators’ visibility, Translators’ roles in history, Translators’ visibility in retranslation, Translators’ agency, Translators’ visibility and (cultural) power dynamics, Translators’ postures, and Inside politics of mapping translators.
- A closing round table on literary translation in Belgium, featuring Sam De Graeve, Katelijne De Vuyst, and Joris Smeets.
Hosted in the Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy (Rozier 44, Ghent), the conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of translation history, reception studies, and cultural transfer, reflecting the growing momentum of historical approaches in Translation Studies.
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