36.3613, Confs: Translating Latin in the Contemporary World (Italy)

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Subject: 36.3613, Confs: Translating Latin in the Contemporary World (Italy)

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Date: 21-Nov-2025
From: Teresa Torcello [teresa.torcello at gmail.com]
Subject: Translating Latin in the Contemporary World


Translating Latin in the Contemporary World
Short Title: TransLATing

Date: 11-Jun-2026 - 12-Jun-2026
Location: Bologna, Italy
Contact Email: translating.latin at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://eventi.unibo.it/translating-latin-contemporary-world

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)

Submission Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

We are pleased to announce the following Call for Papers for the
International Conference “Translating Latin in the Contemporary
World”, to be held in June, 11-12, 2026, at the University of Bologna
(Italy).
The conference will address the topic of translation of Latin texts
into modern languages – both natural and computer-based – by combining
theoretical, historical, and cultural perspectives on translation. The
goal is to bring together scholars from translation studies, classics,
modern languages, comparative literature, linguistics, and digital
humanities, to foster an interdisciplinary discussion of how the
translation of Latin continues to shape the cultural and intellectual
landscapes of the contemporary world. The conference will feature two
keynote lectures by Alexandra Lianeri (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki) and Siri Nergaard (University of South-Eastern Norway).
We invite proposals that address the topic of translation of Latin
texts into modern languages from a variety of perspectives, including
but not limited to the following areas:
- Challenges arising from the translation of Latin into modern
languages – such as linguistic categories absent from either source or
target language, stylistic and rhetorical features, or translation of
realia
- Case studies of Latin translations that have played a key role in
the development of a given national literature or intellectual
tradition
- Instances of ideological or cultural manipulation of Latin texts in
their modern translations
- Comparative analyses of multiple translations of the same Latin text
into a given language
- The impact of digital humanities, machine translation, and
artificial intelligence on the translation and interpretation of Latin
texts
- Didactic perspectives on the use of AI-based tools for the automatic
translation of Latin texts
- Pedagogical perspectives on translation as a hermeneutic tool for
learning Latin
- Cognitive approaches to translation and their relevance to the study
of classical languages.
Contributions focusing on less commonly studied languages and
traditions are particularly welcome.
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers
(followed by a 10-minute discussion). Abstracts may be submitted in
Italian, English, French, German, or Spanish; however, the working
languages of the conference will be Italian and English. Submissions
will be subject to blind review by the scientific committee. Please
send your proposal to translating.latin at gmail.com by 15 January 2026,
attaching an anonymous abstract and including the following
information in the body of the email: paper title, author’s name,
affiliation, and email address for correspondence. Notification of
acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2026.
For further information please visit the conference website:
https://eventi.unibo.it/translating-latin-contemporary-world



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