2025 Conference Highlights

14.11.2025

Several members of Transcult.com participated in major Translation Studies conferences in 2025.

At the 11th EST Congress in Leeds, Leandra Cukur gave a presentation in Panel 7, "Changes to the Economic Value of Translation in the Face of AI". Her talk, titled "The Ethical Consequences of Translation Platforms: Preliminary Results from a Survey on Translators’ Perspectives", examined the impact of paid crowdsourced translation on the working conditions of professional translators.

Cornelia Zwischenberger hosted a panel at the EST together with Anna Kuźnik and Brita Dorer. The panel, titled "The Changing Faces of Surveys and Interviews as Methods and Text Genres," explored how qualitative and quantitative interviews and surveys are used across various contexts within Translation Studies.

Within this panel, Denisa Drabantová presented a talk titled "Exploring the Role of Interviews in Netnographic Translation Studies Research". She discussed the results of a meta-analysis of netnographic Translation Studies publications, focusing on the purposes for which qualitative interviews are employed in netnographic research.

In addition, in 2025 Denisa Drabantová also presented preliminary results of her PHD thesis at the 11th Media4All Conference hosted by the University of Hong Kong in May, as well as at the TIC Conference held at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in September.