Summer School

International Summer School on Translation Studies

FUSP – Nida Centre for Advanced Research on Translation

23 June – 27 June 2025

Translation in a Turbulent World III: Translation and Materiality

The FUSP – Nida Centre for Advanced Research on Translation invites advanced graduate students and interested scholars to online gatherings with a hybrid format: via virtual access from anywhere in the world, associates will participate in an ongoing dialogue with faculty who will gather in person. We welcome you to bring your research and share your questions with our constantly expanding scholarly community!

Building on the legacy of the former Nida School of Translation Studies (NSTS), the centre in Rimini, Italy, run by the Fondazione Unicampus San Pellegrino (FUSP), continues the aim of advancing research on translation through a transdisciplinary approach. We bring together varying perspectives and methodologies, challenging traditional disciplinary boundaries and encouraging original thinking about what translation is, where it takes place, and the role it plays in a complex, globalized, post-pandemic world.

The format of the 2025 summer school offers students and researchers, from all corners of the world, access to meetings online. We will meet in real time, adapting to different time zones through a flexible schedule, providing recordings for those not able to join any given session. In conjunction with our virtual gatherings, we will ensure collaboration through individual and group conversations.

The 2025 FUSP Summer School focuses on materiality, acknowledging the burgeoning transdisciplinary interest in the experience of translation as an “engaged, situated social practice” (Campbell and Vidal 2024) involving “meaning-making across physical, social and cultural domains” (Blumczynski 2023). Thematic directions include the study of translated objects (Vidal Claramonte 2025), the materiality of print culture (book history, periodical studies, archives), sites and artefacts in translation, the translator’s habitus, and sensory encounters in techno-
mediated environments.

We welcome applications from students and researchers who wish to explore the many possible, and impossible, translational modes, in collaboration with faculty from our advisory board: Stefano Arduini, Brian James Baer, Paul F. Bandia, Susan Bassnett, Piotr Blumczynski, Bella Brodzki, Antonia Carcelén-Estrada, Kobus Marais, Christi A. Merrill, Babli Moitra Saraf, Siri Nergaard, Vicente L. Rafael, Carolyn Shread, Sherry Simon, Michelle Woods.

Our community is characterized by our commitment to dialogue. This exchange is what distinguishes our summer school: each day will be characterized by real time meetings with varied formats such as lectures, discussions, presentations, and small and large group conversations. Teaching, tutoring, discussing, advising, we seek to explore the possibilities of collaborative research in the spirit of sharing and inclusion. Our goal is to host a worldwide community engaged in real-time conversations over five days.

This year marks the beginning of our collaboration with the research group on philosophy and translation, PHILTRA, based at the University of Padua.

Application deadline 13 March 2025