37.2295, Confs: Breaking Barriers in Creative Translation (Belgium)

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Date: 07-Jul-2026
From: Simon Copet [simon.copet at ulb.be]
Subject: Breaking Barriers in Creative Translation


Breaking Barriers in Creative Translation
Short Title: BBCT

Date: 18-Nov-2026 - 20-Nov-2026
Location: Mons, Belgium
Meeting URL: https://bbct.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)
                     French (fra, stan1290)

Submission Deadline: 07-Sep-2026

Strongly shaped by its interdisciplinarity and by profound
contemporary societal transformations—whether related to
methodological considerations, gender issues, or technological
upheavals—Translation Studies is nowadays confronted with major
reconfigurations of both its objects of study and its practices. The
recent rise of artificial intelligence has notably revived and further
complexified questions surrounding the notion of creativity, from
ethical, economic, and artistic perspectives alike. Although various
sub-fields of Translation Studies have engaged with this concept,
their work paradoxically remains largely compartmentalised. Yet
creativity has been examined from a Translation Studies perspective
across a wide range of media contexts and through multiple lenses,
including technological, ethical, didactic, and methodological
approaches. Fields such as video game localisation, audiovisual
translation, literary translation, marketing translation, and certain
approaches within the humanities have thus addressed this issue, while
largely remaining confined within their own media-specific and
disciplinary frameworks. This conference aims to foster cross-cutting
dialogue among these different sub-fields around the question of
creativity in translation. It therefore seeks to encourage an opening
of perspectives and to stimulate exchanges in the hope of renewing
theoretical and methodological approaches within a resolutely
interdisciplinary framework.
Topics:
In line with the aims of the conference, these key topics are outlined
with the hope of opening up new interdisciplinary pathways into
creative translation, without any claim to exhaustiveness:
 - Exploring fictional worlds
 - Application of new technologies to creative texts
 - Transmedia analyses
 - Stylistic analyses
 - Assessment of creativity in translation contexts
 - Rendering of humour
 - Retranslation
 - Ethics and professional deontology
 - Translation under constraints
 - Creativity and didactics
 - Cognitive issues in creative translation
Submissions will follow a double-blind peer review procedure. To
submit an abstract: https://bbct.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit
We welcome contributions in French and English. Interpreting services
will be provided throughout the conference.
Keynotes:
Carme Mangiron (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona UAB)
Alice Ray (Université d'Orléans)
Lily Robert Foley (Université de Montpellier)
Important Dates:
Submission: 07 September 2026
Notification: 09 October 2026
Registration: 01 November 2026
Conference: 18-20 November 2026
The conference will be held in person only. Remote attendance will not
be available.



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