36.3544, Confs: Living with AI: From Disruption to Direction in Translation and Interpreting (United Kingdom)

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Subject: 36.3544, Confs: Living with AI: From Disruption to Direction in Translation and Interpreting (United Kingdom)

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Date: 18-Nov-2025
From: Maria Fernandez-Parra [m.a.fernandezparra at swansea.ac.uk]
Subject: Living with AI: From Disruption to Direction in Translation and Interpreting


Living with AI: From Disruption to Direction in Translation and
Interpreting
Short Title: APTIS 2026

Date: 15-Apr-2026 - 18-Apr-2026
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom
Contact: Maria Fernandez-Parra
Contact Email: m.a.fernandezparra at swansea.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://www.aptis-translation-interpreting.com/aptis-2026

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Translation

Submission Deadline: 15-Dec-2025

We are delighted to announce that the 2026 APTIS conference will take
place in Wales for the first time, being jointly hosted by Cardiff
University and Swansea University. The conference will take place from
15-17 April 2026 in Cardiff, with an optional ‘cultural’ day in
Swansea on Saturday 18 April. We welcome abstract submissions for
traditional papers, book launches, workshops, and students’ flash
talks.
The landscape of translation and interpreting (T&I) is undergoing
rapid transformation. Notably spurred on by the development and
infiltration of GenerativeAI, which continues to dominate debates
several years after its emergence, disruptive technologies underlie
these changes to professional practice, academic inquiry, and T&I
training contexts, as we seek to grapple with the pedagogical
challenges and opportunities that these developments bring about.
However, having long dealt with waves of disruption, particularly in
relation to automation, T&I educators, researchers, and professionals
are perhaps uniquely positioned to lead the conversation on what comes
next.
This conference provides a space to reflect on the ways in which our
professional and academic roles, practices, and training contexts have
changed in recent years, to take stock of the present situation, and
to consider the aforementioned challenges and opportunities for T&I
research, practice, and education. In doing so, it aims to foster
dialogue, share innovative teaching and learning practices, and build
a collaborative vision for the future of the field.
We invite proposals for papers, workshops, book launches, and flash
talks from students (BA/BSc, MA/MSc, or PhD) that explore the evolving
role of T&I practice, education, and research in response to
technological disruption and current industry change more generally.
 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
 - (Post-)AI pedagogies in translation and interpreting education
 - Repositioning T&I education (as in, its purpose and values)
 - Case studies of innovation in T&I teaching and assessment
 - Re-skilling and up-skilling for present and future T&I
professionals and trainers
 - Industry-Academia approaches to teaching and researching T&I
 - The impact of machine translation and AI tools on curriculum design
 - Ethical and professional challenges in the age of automation
 - Interdisciplinary approaches to T&I research in a digital age
 - The role of human expertise in hybrid translation workflows,
creating/adding value in the AI age, and conceptualising that value in
training contexts
 - New and emerging job roles in post-AI academic and industry
landscapes
 - Mitigating risk in the use of AI e.g. in translator training or
professional contexts
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 31 January 2026
Registration opens: 15 February 2026
Registration closes: ​​31 March 2026
Conference Dates: 15-18 April 2026
Location: Cardiff (15-17 April) and Swansea (optional, 18 April)
Submission Guidelines:
Book Launches:
Please submit an abstract of 150–200 words, including a title,
author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), and a short bio (max 100 words).
Submissions should clearly outline the relevance to conference
participants.
Workshops:
Please submit an abstract of 350–400 words, including a title,
author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), and a short bio (max 100 words).
Submissions should clearly outline what training will be provided to
participants, as workshops are intended to be hands-on.
Papers:
Please submit an abstract of 250–300 words, including a title,
author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), and a short bio (max 100 words).
Submissions should clearly outline the relevance to the conference
theme.
Students’ Flash Talks (5 minutes):
Please submit an abstract of 150-200 words, including a title,
author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and a short bio (max 100 words).
Flash Talks should be short, engaging presentations (with or without
slides) that spotlight emerging research, innovative ideas and/or
solutions to problems, workarounds to problems, or personal insights
into the evolving Translation and Interpreting landscape in industry
and/or academia.
Submit your proposal here:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MEu3vWiVVki9vwZ1l3j8vGuOlzuA47pDt2sF_bS7y2ZUQVgwMzRENUdaRkJKUlBMM0dLS0M2S0RRVy4u



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