Translation and cultural transfer

The translation research group and its members represent a range of disciplines within translation studies, and the main foci of the group are translation products, translation processes and genres of translation, as well as the role, status, and consequences of translation within society.

In today’s globalized world, intercultural communication – oral as well as written – is, more than ever, based on translation. Linked to this surge of translation and interpreting is the need for research in a range of related aspects. The translation research group aims at strengthening translation research at Engerom, at the HUM-Faculty and nationally.

The group meets six times per year, where group members give presentations and researchers from outside are invited to present their research. This forum gives members and guests the opportunity to draw inspiration from colleagues’ work on translation, become familiar with colleagues' methodological approach in their translation research, discuss key texts and explore opportunities for joint research applications.