PROGRAMMES

Date: 8 September–15 September 2024
Organisation: Faculty of Arts
Venue: Maribor, Slovenia
ECTS: 3

The Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, will organize the 11th international translation academy and translation week TRANS 2024. The programme will be delivered in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Translation at the European Parliament.

The translation academy TRANS 2024 will host about 25 international and 10 home translation, linguistics and intercultural communication students as well as international and home lecturers. The academy will include translation workshops, round tables and excursions.

Location: University of Maribor, Slovenia (Slomškov tg 15, SI-2000 Slovenia)

The TRANS 2024 Summer Academy will take place in person at the University of Maribor in Slovenia.

Languages: German, English, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Polish, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Vlasta Kučiš, Faculty of Arts, Department of Translation Studies;

E-Mail: vlasta.kucis@um.si

More information will be available in the following weeks.

Applying for a CEEPUS grant: https://www.ceepus.info/#nbb

More about the CEEPUS TRANS Network and Summer Academy:

The title of the TRANS network is TRANSkulturelle Kommunikation und TRANSlation (TRANScultural Communication and TRANSlation) and the Summer Academy TRANS celebrates this year the 10^th Anniversary! Our research focuses on translation studies, especially in the field of the German and English language, but also including other languages. The initiative to establish this CEEPUS network emerged from the awareness of the need to promote translation studies in the Central and South-East Europe. Translation Studies is a relatively young scientific field, which has been developing as an independent research field at European universities for the last 50 years. Multilingual communication becomes increasingly important in the contemporary globalised world, which promotes multilingualism and stresses the importance of translation and interpretation as a means of intercultural mediation. Every European citizen should be able to express himself/herself in his/her own language, thus consolidating his/her identity and contributing to the multicultural and multilingual Europe. The main objectives of the TRANS network are:

• To stress the importance of translation studies in the context of contemporary multilingual European society, as well as to promote good relations among neighbouring countries
• To organise summer schools and translation workshops in cooperation with DGTRAD-EP
• To promote mobility of students and teachers within the Central and South-East Europe
• To enable and promote cooperation in the higher education area between the countries of Central and South-East Europe
• To promote respectful attitude for languages with low diffusion through education and mobility of students and teachers        

The summer school is organised under the CEEPUS programme. Read more about financial support here and contact your International Relations Office at your home university.