International conference
Putting Translators on the Map/Mettre les traducteur.rice.s sur la carte

4 – 5 November 2025 | Ghent University and KU Leuven

Literary (Self-)Representation in Translations from and into French

This conference, organised by research groups TRACE-CLIV (Ghent), French literature (Leuven) and CIRTI (Liège), aims to foster exchange between researchers who study (in)visibility and auto/hetero-representations of translators in translations and their paratexts. We invite contributions that focus particularly on translations from and into French, from the early modern period to the present day. Through this approach, we aim to revisit some longstanding assumptions regarding the shifting value of French language in transcultural processes of visibility and authority construction, both in France and in the francophone world.

Keynote Speakers: Marie-Alice Belle (Université de Montréal), Patrick Hersant (Université Paris 8)

You will find the call for papers here. We invite contributors to submit an abstract of 300 words (in French or in English) by the 31st of May 2025 to both francis.mus@ugent.be and beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be.