- University of Lodz
- The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium On Translation And Meaning
The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium On Translation And Meaning
The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning is a successor to the internationally acclaimed event with the same concept, organised in Maastricht and Łódź from 1990 to 2015. The two inaugural sessions involving ZHAW Winterthur as co-organiser were held in 2020 and 2021.
The Łódź session of the Duo Colloquium will be held from 25-26 September 2025 at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Łódź, 171/173 Pomorska Street, 90-236 Łódź, Poland. The follow-up event at the School of Applied Linguistics, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, will take place from 23-25 April 2026. A separate call for the ZHAW session will be issued in due course.
In line with the previous sessions held in Łódź, the 2025 Łódź session will be geared towards theory and will deal with theoretical aspects of the central theme of the Duo Colloquium and the suggested sub-themes. The ZHAW session will have a more applied orientation.
This year’s central theme is After AI: Human(e) translation. Few professions and practices have been so directly affected by recent advances in AI as the language professions and the practices of translation and interpreting. As we re-evaluate our roles and our practices, questions of humanity and humane-ness remain central. How do humans remain involved in translation: both in the shaping of processes, and as users and readers of texts, and recipients and interpreters of utterances? Human(e) translation can be interpreted broadly, from the geopolitical to the textual to the commercial, and embraces both academic and professional considerations of translation and interpreting phenomena in the age of AI.
The conference sub-themes are focussed on the central theme in translation and interpreting theory and practice. They embrace both academic and professional considerations of meaning in translation and interpreting from a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives.
The sub-themes include, but are not limited to, the interface of translation / interpreting and (in alphabetical order):
- cognition
- corpus / text linguistics
- domain specificity (e.g. economics, law, science, medicine, religion)
- education / training
- lexicology / lexicography / terminology
- literature
- metaphor / phraseology
- modality / media
- philosophy
- pragmatics / semantics / semiotics
- psycholinguistics / psychology
- quality assessment
- situated practice(s)
- sociolinguistics / sociology
- sociotechnical systems / agency
- stylistics
- technology
- the end-users / recipients / those who experience translation products
The conference programme will include a discussion panel on the human(e) dimension of audiovisual translation, media accessibility and game localisation. The panelists include: Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo (Rutgers University, USA), Krzysztof Kowalczyk (Vice President at Polish Association of Audiovisual Translators STAW), Carme Mangiron (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Agnieszka Szarkowska (University of Warsaw), and Łukasz Bogucki (moderator, University of Lodz).
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Kathryn Batchelor, University College London, SELCS
Erik Angelone, TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Łukasz Bogucki (Head of the Łódź Organising Committee)
Alice Delorme-Benitez (Co-head of the ZHAW Organising Committee)
Chantal Wright (Co-head of the ZHAW Organising Committee)
Mikołaj Deckert
Michał Kornacki
Marcin Michoń
Paulina Pietrzak
Agata Sadza
Agnieszka Stawikowska-Marcinkowska
Przemysław Boczarski
Krzysztof W. Hejduk
HONORARY CHAIRS
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin
Marcel Thelen, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (ret.)
ABSTRACTS
The registration for the conference is open. Please expect notification of acceptance within 7 days of submitting the abstract.
Presentations can be in English or German. Participants intending to give a paper should fill out the Registration Form available at https://tinyurl.com/duocolloquium2025.
PAYMENT
The full fee for the Łódź Session is EUR 220 (EUR 260, if including the evening conference dinner). This includes registration, the academic programme, the social programme, coffee breaks, lunches on the conference days, a copy of the book of abstracts, and all other documentation.
The fee does not cover accommodation.
Fee reductions:
- Polish participants living and working in Poland pay PLN 600 / PLN 770, if including the evening dinner.
- Polish students and PhD candidates pay PLN 300 (proof of status required) / PLN 470, if including the evening dinner.
- International students and PhD candidates pay EUR 150 (proof of status required) / EUR 190, if including the evening dinner.
The conference dinner will be held at an award-winning restaurant and will be made up of a three-course meal with drinks (hot, soft and alcoholic).
PAYMENT DETAILS
Participants are required to pay the conference fee by 31 August 2025. Please send us information (duo@uni.lodz.pl) once the payment has been made.
Please use the following bank details for bank wire transfers:
Recipient:
University of Lodz
Narutowicza 68 street
90-136 Lodz
Region: lodzkie voivodeship
Bank name: Pekao SA
BIC (SWIFT) - PKOPPLPW
IBAN - 08 1240 3028 1111 0011 4908 1008
Please make sure your name is included in the name of the transfer.
Please provide your invoice details when you register; otherwise, we cannot issue a VAT invoice.
DINNER VENUE
The conference dinner will take place at Hexagon 2.0, located within a convenient 5-minute walk from the main conference venue (please refer to the map for directions).
For additional information about the restaurant, please visit the Hexagon website.
Venue Address:
Hexagon 2.0
Pomorska 144
91-404 Łódź
CONFERENCE PUBLICATION(S)
The organisers intend to publish a selection of papers from the conference proceedings as a special issue in an indexed journal, holding a rating of 100 or more points on the Polish Ministry list. Additionally, edited volumes with leading publishers will be compiled, with further details to be announced. The selection of papers for publication will be at the organisers' discretion, subject to peer review and alignment with the conference theme and subthemes.
TRAVELLING FROM WARSAW TO ŁÓDŹ
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AND BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
