Translation in Response to the Turbulent World
Translation in Response to the Turbulent World

Summary/Abstract: On 22–24 September 2022, the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University marked its 25th birthday by organizing an international conference entitled Translation, Ideology, Ethics: Response and Credibility, which included the Translating Europe Workshop (TEW) on Ethics in the Era of Machine Translation (sponsored by the DGT of the European Commission). The conference served as a platform for revisiting the place, role and impact of translation in the rapidly changing dynamic social and multicultural communicational context. Its starting point was the realisation that any translation never takes place in a vacuum and the need for it emanates in contexts that are saturated with various ideologies, cultures, and stands, and therefore the very process of translation, its product, and participants are affected by these contexts and make an impact on them. The collisions of ideologies, combined with the ethical stances that translators have to assume in response, drew attention to the risks and responsibilities associated with translation situations that extend beyond the text and directly affect the participants in those situations.

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