Language(s) and the Cultural Politics & Policies for Scholarly Translation
Thursday, 4 June 2026
Hosted and co-organised by GEO (Groupe d’études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques)
Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), France
This academic forum is a follow up of the 2026 ECSPM Symposium on Internationalisation in Higher Education, Multilingualism and Translation, focusing on 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.
Please see here the FORUM poster with a link for online attendance.
PROGRAMME
09:30 – 10:00
Welcome and introduction to the work of GEO & ECSPM
Irini Tsamadou-Jacoberger, Professor at the University of Strasbourg & Bessie Dendrinos, ECSPM President
10:00 – 11:00
Translation: Obscured Site of Language Policy Implementation (online)
Joseph Lo Bianco, Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Q&A coordinator: Andrea Young, Professor at the University of Strasbourg
11:00 – 11:45
The language policy arrangements and practice of language hierarchies in the EU institutions
Péter Szabó, Conference interpreter at European Parliament, postdoc at Tilburg University
Q&A coordinator: Thomas Tinnefeld, Professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Saarland, President of the Language Council of Saarland, Germany
11.30 – 12.00
COFFEE BREAK
12:00 – 13:15
TRANSLALIA: A Possible Future for Translation with GenAI
Matthew Reynolds, Professor at the University of Oxford, England
Discussant: Jan Engberg, Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark (online)
13:15 – 14:30
LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 15:30
Power relationships between languages in translation
Effie Fragkou, Assoc. Professor at the Ionian University, member of the Research Institute “Multilingualism and Language Policy” of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Discussant: Aleksandar Trklja, Assoc. Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
15:30 – 17:00
Roundtable:
The challenges of translating academic / scientific discourse
Coordinator: Irini Tsamadou-Jacoberger
Contributors: Frédéric Abécassis, Assoc. Professor of Contemporary History- ENS Lyon, and from the University of Strasbourg Marie Bizais-Lillig, Assoc. Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, Ragip Ege, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz, Assoc. Professor at the Department of Persian Studies, Farah Ramzy, Assoc. Professor at the Department of Arabic Studies, and Dilek Sarmis, Assoc. Professor at the Department of Turkish Studies,