Events & Gallery

Conferences, workshops and invited lectures in Slovakia and abroad.

Events and dissemination

The project was presented and discussed at international conferences, workshops and invited lectures in Slovakia and abroad. It also organised a specialist conference section and an international panel devoted to translation in periodicals.

Project-organised events

Translation, Interpreting & Culture 2025

Banská Bystrica, Slovakia | 24–26 September 2025

Decoding Periodicals: Translators, Data, and Interdisciplinary Insights

International panel discussion chaired by Ivana Hostová.

Panelists: Luc van Doorslaer, Diana Roig-Sanz, Jutta Ernst, Laura Fólica and Igor Tyšš.

The discussion addressed translation history, periodical studies, research data, metadata, interdisciplinary methodology and the role of periodicals as sites of cultural mediation.

TIC special session and panel

Translators in Periodicals as Society-Shaping Agents

The project organised a four-panel specialist section examining translators, editors and periodicals as agents of cultural, political and intellectual mediation.

The call received 26 abstracts from 15 countries; 22 papers were accepted following double-blind review. Contributions approached translation in periodicals through historical, sociological, textual and Digital Humanities perspectives.

Project team contributions included:

  • Eva Spišiaková: “Translating Kapitál: Mapping Slovakia’s 21st-Century Left-Wing History Through Translation Networks.”
  • Ivana Hostová: “Figures in the Fabric: Actor-Networks of the Periodicals Aspekt and Revue svetovej literatúry.”
  • Marianna Bachledová: “World Literature Revue: Reconstructing the History of Translation through Periodicals.”
  • Igor Tyšš: panel participation and conference organisation.

International presentations

Vilnius University

10 April 2025

Ivana Hostová, “Information Flows and Zones of Resistance: Translation in Slovak Cultural and Literary Periodicals since the 1990s.” Project presentation introducing the research design, bibliographic datasets and comparative agenda.

11th EST Congress, University of Leeds

30 June–3 July 2025

Ivana Hostová, “Translational and Translatorial Strategies of Feminist Resistance: The Case of the Slovak Feminist Journal Aspekt.”

Poetry Transfers, Charles University, Prague

2–3 October 2025

Ivana Hostová, “The Politics of Poetry Translation: Poetry in Revue svetovej literatúry, 1995–2009.” The workshop connected project data with comparative research on poetry transfer and translation in periodicals.

Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava

29 October 2025

Ivana Hostová, invited lecture “Metodologické aspekty výskumu prekladu: sociologické a kvantitatívne prístupy.”

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

20–22 April 2026

Ivana Hostová, “Laboratories of Translation: Exploration and Exploitation in Slovak Literary Translation.” Presented at the international conference Cultural Diversity and Funded Translations: Between Institutional Gatekeeping and the Market, Past and Present.

Vilnius University

18–20 June 2026

Ivana Hostová, “Translation as Cultural Intervention in Slovak Periodicals: Visualising Agency with SNA and ANT.” The presentation developed the project’s combined use of Social Network Analysis and Actor–Network Theory. Ivana Hostová also chaired Brian James Baer’s keynote lecture.

Selected photographs from project conferences, workshops, presentations and international research meetings.