Language(s) and the Cultural Politics & Policies for Scholarly Translation
4-5 June 2026
Hosted by the University of Strasbourg, France
This academic forum is a follow up of the 2026 ECSPM Symposium on Internationalisation in Higher Education, Multilingualism and Translation, focusing the challenges of adapting knowledge, ideas, and perspectives across cultures and contexts, of transferring and sharing knowledge and research findings across borders, necessitating the translation of scientific constructs and research methodologies.
The event starts in the afternoon with an informal get-together for socialising and networking among the participants in this forum and a dinner offered by the GEO research centre (Groupe d’études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques).
On June 5, the three distinguished speakers below, with expertise on the forum theme, will to share their research outcomes and to discuss their ideas with the participants on the following topics:
- Matthew Reynolds, Professor at the University of Oxford, England: “Creative translation and AI”
- Joseph LoBianco, Professor emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia: “Translation: Obscured Site of Language Policy Implementation”
- Laurent Gajo, Professeur à l’Université de Genève, Suisse: “Multilingual scholarship / Bourse multilingue”
Also, the forum will feature two roundtable discussions with scholars and academics involved in translation of academic texts and oral discourse on:
- Power relationships between languages in translation
- The challenges of translating academic discourse
Programme to be announced.