To continue with the now-well-established tradition of celebrating International Translation Day with St Jerome’s Symposium (SJS) on 30 September each year, this year’s event (SJS 2026) will be held online from 16.00 to 17.30 (CEST, UTC +2). The main theme of SJS 2026 will be academia – industry collaboration from the perspective of both parties. Thus, we will have translation teachers/scholars and industry partners sharing their viewpoints on selected aspects of collaboration.
Registered participants will be emailed the link to the meeting, and closer to the event we will be sending out the meeting schedule.
SJS 2026 Guest Speakers/Contributors
· Agenor Hofmann-Delbor (localize.pl, chief executive): A perspective on employers’ expectations towards translators and language professionals
· Alexandra Krause (senior lecturer at the University of Vienna and a liason EMT member): The collaboration between the EMT (European Master‘s in Translation) and the language industry
· Joseph Lambert (researcher and academic teacher at the University of Cardiff and an associate editor for the Interpreter and Translator Trainer journal) and Sara Robertson (chief executive of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting): Reflections on the potential of collaboration: ITI, APTIS, and the UK context as a case study
· Anna Mohácsi-Gorove (senior training manager at memoQ): MemoQ’s collaboration with academia