Exactly One Month Until the Second Edition of the Adriatic Translation Conference

Discussion of key challenges and opportunities faced by translators in the era of global communication, exchange of experiences, and networking opportunities will again be key points of gathering for translators from Croatia and the entire region at the second edition of the Adriatic Translation Conference.

Expectations were exceeded already in the first edition of last year’s sold-out conference hall, and the Adriatic Translation Conference this year also announces a rich program that will provide answers to numerous challenges faced by translators. The conference will be held exactly one month from now, on October 25, at the Kaptol Boutique Cinema in Zagreb, and ahead of International Translation Day celebrated on September 30, it announces a rich all-day program and attractive speakers. Among them will be a translator and editor, as well as the popular quiz master and the only hunter in the TV quiz Morana Zibar and the award-winning literary translator Mišo Grundler, along with a series of interesting panels in the fields of audiovisual, literary, and oral translation.

– Last year’s first edition of the conference was extremely successful and showed that we, translators, need and want a place where we can gather, talk and listen about topics that are important to us, exchange experiences, knowledge, and contacts. Therefore, this year we are again focusing on our profession to make it more visible and even better and to highlight the importance of translators and translation in public – explains the initiator and organizer of the conference Ana Treger from the translation office Treger Team.

Thus, the conference will present the results of the first research on the image and status of translators conducted by doc.dr.sc. Helga Begonja from the University of Zadar and dr.sc. Jana Kegalj from the Maritime Faculty in Rijeka, which showed that translators themselves recognize the importance of raising the level of knowledge about translation to strengthen their status, as well as being aware of a number of limiting factors that hinder the professionalization of the profession.

At the panel ‘When I Grow Up, I Will Translate Books’, award-winning translators with impressive portfolios Ana Badurina, Ozren Doležal, and Jelena Pataki Šumiga will answer questions from Morana Zibar about how to become and survive in one of the most challenging and crucial branches of translation for the future of languages – literary translation.

A distinguished conference interpreter who teaches translation at the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb, dr.sc. Ivanka Rajh, will moderate the panel ‘From Pantovčak to Ježevo’, where Tanja Žakula and other translators accredited to work in EU institutions will share their experiences of translating at the highest levels abroad and in Croatia.

‘Audiovisualists of the Region’ will also come to Zagreb, represented by Petra Matić from Croatia, Vesna Stamenković from Serbia, and Nikolina Pandža from Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the panel ‘Plan B or Exhaust’ will discuss whether business diversification is a good business decision. Along with Anja Lordanić Mustać, who decided to run a podcast for small entrepreneurs in English in addition to translation, the discussion will include Edita Bandur, Roberta Končar Dabić, Łukasz Mrzygłód, and Višnja Željeznjak.

The Adriatic Translation Conference again focuses on the translation profession and presents a unique place for networking, socializing, and exchanging knowledge and experiences for all those connected to translation in any way. Only one day a year is reserved for the Adriatic Translation Conference, so do not miss the second edition of the first translation conference in Croatia! All information about the program and registration is available at the link.