Activities
upcoming
9-11 September 2026
IfTra will contribute a workshop on transfer activities and projects to the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition conference organised at the RWTH Aachen, Germany
24 February 2026
In collaboration with Translate Science, IfTra is hosting a talk by Christopher Hertweck on research software localization.
January – September 2026
IfTra conducts the project MuLingFrame funded by the NFDI consortium Text+
Blog entry on projects funded in 2026 (in German)
completed
January 2026
IfTra is accepted into the Bündnis für Sprachmittlung im Gesundheitswesen ‚Alliance for Language Mediation in Healthcare‘
19 October 2025
Oliver Czulo was interviewed by the Leipziger Zeitung on claims by Rafael Laguna de Vera (SPRIND) that the translator’s job were „over“
21-23 July 2025
In cooperation with Translate Science and Lynne Bowker, IfTra will be part of the FORCE11 Scholarly Institute with an introductory workshop on translation for people working in science
18 June 2025
In a workshop with the language service of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany), Oliver Czulo asks the question: What is the language strategy for Germany?
22 May 2025
Maryam Foradi and Oliver Czulo present the institute in the online-newspaper Leipziger Zeitung (in German)
20 May 2025
Oliver Czulo discusses in the tuwort podcast what Translation is, how to quit a tenured professorship and what the plans for the newly founded Institut für Translatologie are (in German)
7 May 2025
Oliver Czulo will present „Aspekte einer Diskurstranslatologie“ (Aspects of a Discourse Translatology) in a workshop on German in the European language space at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache
11 February 2025
The foundational documents for the „Institut für Translatologie gGmbH“ (comparable to a charitable LLC) are signed!
November 2024
We presented our spin-off project at the dikomm fair for digitization in the public sector with a workshop on basics of digital multilingual processes (in German).