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CETRA – Centre for Translation Studies is a leading centre for translation and interpreting research and researcher training based at KU Leuven, in Belgium. The CETRA Blog is a space for announcing events, lectures, conferences, job vacancies, calls and new publications of relevance to the CETRA community and translation studies scholars more generally. Share requests are welcome via cetra@kuleuven.be

Our latest posts

  • Call for Participants: CETRA Research Summer School 2026
  • Final programme: ‘Putting Translators on the Map’ international conference (4-5 November 2025, Ghent)
  • Kobus Marais’s CETRA Chair Lectures now online
  • Call for papers: “The Politics of Small Scales: Digital, Economic, Social and Aesthetic Transformations of Contemporary Presses” (workshop, 21-22 May 2026, KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Call for papers: “Cognition and the Media” international conference (30-31 October 2025, Pescara, Italy, abstract deadline 22 September 2025)
  • Call for papers: ‘Putting Translators on the Map’ international conference, 4-5 November 2025 (Ghent & Leuven) – abstract deadline 31 May 2025
  • Lieven D’hulst leads groundbreaking, 6-volume book series ‘A Cultural History of Translation’ – now available for pre-order
  • Job opportunity: Tenure-track professor in Applied Linguistics German and Translation Studies (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, application deadline 13 February 2025)
  • Call for participants: 2025 CETRA Research Summer in Translation Studies (online, 25 August to 5 September, application deadline 28 March 2025)
  • Call for abstracts: PaCor 2025 “(Parallel) Corpus-Based Approaches to Language and Data: Generative AI Applications in Focus” 28-30 May 2025, Valladolid (deadline 20 January 2025)
  • 2024 CETRA Fall Lecture by Tristan Leperlier: “The Plurilingual Local at Large” (28 November 2024 – ONLINE)
  • Invitation: Celebratory symposium on the occasion of Peter Flynn’s recent book ‘Translating in the Local Community’ (3 December 2024)
  • Call for book chapters: ‘Translation and Interpreting Processes: Extended Perspectives’ (deadline for abstracts 1 February 2025)
  • Call for papers: “Polyphony and Silence” interdisciplinary symposium, 15-16 May 2025 (Leuven, Belgium)
  • Call for papers: “Popular Fiction in Translation: An International Conference”, 10-12 September 2025 (Ghent, Belgium)
  • Call for papers: ‘Script-switching in literary texts’ (online colloquium)
  • CETRA Chair Professor 2024 Lecture Series by Lynne Bowker – Now available on YouTube
  • Job opportunity: Postdoctoral fellowship in news translation at the University of the Free State (South Africa)
  • Job opportunity: Research manager Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute (LILI)
  • Job opportunity: Full-time PhD researcher studying paratextual representations of translators within francophone literatures (Ghent University, deadline 30 June 2024)

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CETRA Spring Lecture 2022 (28/4) by Nina Reviers (University of Antwerp): ‘Media Accessibility as a Special Type of Translation’

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!!!STARTS AT 6:30 PM!!! CETRA Winter Lecture 2022 (21/3, online): A conversation between Kader Abdolah and Helge Daniëls (KU Leuven) about his translation of the Qur’an

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28/10 and 29/10: seminar and lecture by Patrick Maurus on the French translation of Korean literature, organized by the Center for Korean Studies (KU Leuven)

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Research seminar at University of Antwerp: Translating James Joyce

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Upcoming CETRA Winter Lecture by Nina Reviers (University of Antwerp): ‘Media Accessibility as a special type of translation’ (25/2, online)

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Call for papers of ‘Translation in Society’, a brand new journal in Translation Studies

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Reminder – Call for Participants to the 2020 CETRA Summer School

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CETRA Conference on Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an: Call for Participants

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CETRA Winter Lecture 2020 by Michael Cronin, followed by a research seminar

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CERES/CETRA Fall Lecture by Shuangyi Li: ‘Proust in the Chinese Shadow’

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