Transius Conference 2025: Thank you for contributing to a unique global event!
From 7 to 9 July 2025, the Transius Centre hosted its fourth international conference on legal and institutional translation in Geneva. The event was attended by more than 250 participants from over 40 countries around the world.
Catherine Way (University of Granada), Maarit Koponen (University of Easter Finland) and Anne O’Connor (University of Galway) delivered three thought-provoking keynote lectures on translator training, the nature and impacts of post-editing, and global multilingual communication practices of the Catholic Church, respectively.
Speakers from various international organizations (including the four main EU institutions, WIPO and the WTO) and the International Federation of Translators (FIT) shared their practices at three roundtables about the use of machine translation and artificial intelligence in institutional language services, the role of international standards and institutional guidelines in translation quality assurance, and clear writing and inclusive language in legal and institutional communication.
Based on the overwhelming response from researchers and practitioners, this edition also hosted a record number of 40 parallel sessions, as well as a poster session, with over 120 papers and posters authored by colleagues from more than 70 universities and multiple international and national institutions (including Canada, the Philippines and Switzerland). Relevant discussions continued outside the conference rooms, with plenty of opportunities for valuable exchanges and networking.
Once again, the Transius Conference has confirmed its role as a leading global forum in the field of legal and institutional translation and communication. The organizers wish to thank all the participants who made this unique event possible and look forward to welcoming them again in three years.
You can check out the recap summaries of each conference day, as well as spontaneous feedback from participants, here:
Summaries:
Illustrative feedback:
- Catherine Way (University of Granada, Spain)
- Anne O’Connor (University of Galway, Ireland)
- Nourreddine Ahmidouch (World Intellectual Property Organization)
- Martina Bajčić (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
- Lucja Biel (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Silvana Debonis (Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina)
- Javier Gil (Spain)
- Irish Holl (University of Salamanca, Spain)
- Kätlin Järve (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Tatiana Kaplun (University of Strasbourg, France)
- Anna Kokkinidou (European Commission)
- Agata de Laforcade (ISIT, France)
- Aline Larroyed (Dublin City Unviersity, Ireland)
- Mary Ann Monteagudo (Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Peru)
- Albert Morales (Open University of Catalunya, Spain)
- Waldemar Nazarov (Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and University of Burgundy, France)
- Jekaterina Nikitina (University of Milan, Italy)
- Tímea Palotai-Torzsás (Juremy Ltd., Hungary)
- Marc Serra Pena (Switzerland)
- Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka (University of Lodz, Poland)
- Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University, Greece)
- Cornelia Staudinger (Swiss Federal Chancellery)