13th International Conference on Translation and Interpreting: “TheArt of Translation: The Legacy of Jiří Levý and Current Trends inTranslation Studies”, Prague 2026

On October 15 – 16, 2026, the Institute of Translation Studies of Charles University in Prague will host the thirteenth in its series of international conferences on translation and interpreting, “The Art of Translation: The Legacy of Jiří Levý and Current Trends in Translation Studies”.
The aim of the conference is to commemorate the life and work of one of the most prominent figures of Czech and international translation studies. In his seminal book, The Art of Translation, Levý combines the approaches of a theoretician, systemic analyst, historian, critic, and teacher to address many perennially relevant issues of translation theory and practice, making a major contribution to the development of Translation Studies as a scholarly discipline. The conference will stress the potential of Levý’s ideas, looking for new applications of his work in present-day translation studies, philology, literary studies and linguistics.
The scientific board will welcome abstracts in the following thematic areas: literary translation and translation history, interdisciplinarity in translation research, praxeology, non-literary translation, translator training, and Jiří Levý’s life and work. For more information please see https://levy100.ff.cuni.cz/uvodni-stranka/zvani-recnici/