TRANSLATION AT THE CROSSROADS OF IDEOLOGIES AND CULTURES
18–20 June 2026
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The final conference programme can be found here.
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
Book of abstracts is available here.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. dr. Brian James Baer
Kent State University (USA)
Prof. dr. Michael Cronin
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin (Ireland)
Prof. dr. Federico M. Federici
University College London (United Kingdom)
Assoc. prof. / Researcher dr. Oleksandr Kalnychenko
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University / Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Ukraine / Slovakia)
Prof. dr. Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez
FITISPos-UAH Group, University of Alcalá (Spain)CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Multilingualism Workshop / SPECIAL SESSION & DISCUSSION
Beyond Trust and Necessity: Translation and Interpreting Technologies in Conflict and Crisis Situations
In the framework of our conference, we invite an in-depth discussion about the role of technology in translation and interpretation practices in conflict and crisis situations. Looking beyond binary qualifications of translation/interpreting technology as trust-worthy or unreliable, necessary or insufficient, we hope to foster a collaborative approach to study its impact, focusing on two key areas: its effects on translation/interpreting process itself, and a broader influence of technology-mediated translation/interpretation on crisis and conflict resolution and post-crisis/conflict communities.
Multilingualism Workshop / SPECIAL SESSION & DISCUSSION is sponsored by the The Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. Participation in the Workshop is free of charge and can be onsite or online. We are inviting the participants of the Workshop to also enjoy the talk of our first keynote speaker of the day prof. Michael Cronin on "Translation, Minority, and AI."
Presentations for this session are selected based on their relevance to the topic by the Scientific Committee. Simultaneous interpreting to English and Lithuanian will be provided for the Workshop presentations.
Convener: Dr. Dainora Maumevičienė (KTU, Lithuania)
Dainora Maumevičienė is an associate professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), the head of the Research Centre of Humanities and Arts and a member of the research group of Language and Technologies. She also represents translation programmes, offered at KTU, in the European Master’s in Translation Network. Her research activities and interests are related and focus on language and translation policies and their interrelation, translation / interpreting, localisation, Lithuanisation aspects, the use of translation technologies and the impact of machine translation tools and artificial intelligence on localising software, video‑game or other digital content. Part of her research is also dedicated to innovative didactic approaches and especially the application of design thinking and challenge‑based solving in translation and humanities.
If you would like to attend only the Multilingualism Workshop/Special Session (and not the entire conference), please register here till 15th of June. For the registration to the conference, see our registration page.
The programme for the Workshop and the whole conference.